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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 219 CHAPTER XXXIV. President Young Requests Brother Brizzee and Myself to Prepare for a Mission to Mexico Mileton G. Trejo Joins the Church His Remarkable Conversion I Report to President Young that I am Ready One Hundred Pages of the Book of Mormon Translated into Spanish and Printed. According to the request made by President Young I bought a lot and had a good, comfortable house built in Fairview, Sanpete Co., expecting to make that my future home. The house was . not yet complete when I was called upon by Henry Brizzee, about June, 1874, who told me that President Young wished to see him and me at his office to talk with us about a mission to Mexico, saying that President Young understood that we spoke the Spanish language. I had expected this call to come some time. I had both desired and dreaded the mission. My desire was from a sense of duty. My dread was owing to the power of Catholicism that I had seen prevail in that land, while living there from 1847 to 1850. At that time no man dared pass in front of a church without raising his hat. Anyone doing so was most sure to be pelted with stones with a possibility of having his head broken. A priest passing along the street demanded the uncovering of the head by all who met him. A person's life was in danger unless acting promptly in conformity with all these customs. To offer a word against their religion would be almost certain death. That the country had been revolutionized and reli-gious freedom declared I had not learned. I only |