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Show 22O FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. remembered what I had seen. I felt a dread that tried me severely while on my way to the office ; but before arriving I had formed the resolution to " face the music." My reflections were: This mission has to be com-menced by someone and~ if it is necessary for the extreme sacrifice to be made, just as well to be me as anyone else. On meeting President Young, he told us that the time had come to prepare for the introduction of the gospel into Mexico; that there were millions of the descendants of Nephi in the land, and that we were under obligations to visit them. Asked us if we were willing to prepare for a mission. We told him we were. Nothing very definite was arranged at the time. Bro-ther Young said he would like to have some extracts from the Book of Mormon translated to send to the peo-ple of Mexico ; advised us to get our private affairs arranged, also to study up our Spanish and prepare our-selves for translating and report to him, and when the proper time came and all was ready he would let us know. Some suggestion was made about visiting the City of Mexico as travelers and feel our way among the people. Brother Brizzee and I visited together often and talked about the work before us. We began to study and prepare for translating. My own feelings were that it would require considerable study, although I under-stood Spanish quite well. Still to translate for publica-tion required a more thorough scholarship than either of us possessed. I often thought how good it would be to have a' native Spaniard to help us. Some few months after the notice to get ready, Brother Brizzee called at my house, accompanied by a stranger whom he introduced as Mileton G. Trejo, a |