Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 102

room with a gust of wind, which was indeed so strong that she could not latch the door again after entering. Elder Potteau sprang to her assistance, and, looking up to thank him, she cried, 66 Oh you dear, blessed man! Don't you remember me?" "8ster Ranforth," Mrs. Norman good-naturedly hinted in a stage-whisper, and the Elder greeted her by that name. "Yes; here I am. Look at me, so strong and hearty ! " (She looked like a withered leaf.) "Don't you remember in `57, at the meeting in St. Mary Axe, when the brethren were all saying I was too old and feeble to go out to join the saints, that I said I wanted to start if I died on the way, that the Lord might know I tried to obey his words, and go to the gathering-in of Zion? And you said, `Sister, you shall go. I feel to promise you that you shall reach the saints and see your children's children, and peace upon Israel.' And I have," cried the old creature, with joyful tears; "I have seen my children's children, and it's not four weeks sin' I held my first great-great-grandchild in these arms. I wasn't quite ready to depart before; but I am now, and especially since I have seen you again. The Lord bless you, Elder Potteau, for the good words you spoke that day!" Some of the women took her into another room to rest, for she was quite exhausted by her emotion. Her life seemed to be fading away with her color before our eyes. The saints who are more used to his presence take Brother Brigham's arrival at a village tranquilly, but new-comers in Utah greet him much more deferentially than if he were the President of the United States. There was a bright-eyed woman at Parowan with snow-white hair who tried to kiss his hand, and went round to all the party shaking hands with both hands 102