Comments on: Without Purse or Scrip in Texas: 5 July – 19 July 1901

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:14:46 +0000

Yes, Julia, he was being transferred, but there were at least two factors that mixed up the plans: Somebody was sick and so needed to be transferred to a place where malaria wasn’t so prevalent, and the room in someone’s house (the Smiths) that the missionaries in that area were using as a headquarters (not the whole mission office, but some division of the mission, like today’s zones or districts) needed to be changed to relieve the pressures on the Smiths from people who didn’t like so many Mormons in the neighborhood. I’m not entirely clear on who ended up where, but you’ve got the right idea: Elder Jones’s plans for transfer got interrupted midway because of these other factors.

Thanks for the laugh, Mark!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:52:50 +0000

I stopped short with his description on Elder Heward on July 11: he was “chilling.”

I’d forgotten all about malaria (until his entry on July 16 about Elder Heward), and I wondered if he was anticipating American slang 100 years or so ahead of its time.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 05:40:18 +0000

I think that I am just not used to how they talk about mission assignments, but I don’t really understand what happened on the 10th and 11th. He was going to be transferred to Austin, and then wasn’t because someone (Elder Heward?) was sick? So he was taking his place?

Sorry to be dense.