and that all your feasts and attendant ceremonies are precisely like ours.
Your servants the Committee have viewed the Colarado River with all its beautiful hills and vallies and fertile soil with deep regret when viewing the countless thousands of inhabitants on either side thereof, without the knowledge of God or the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and say in their hearts, would it be expedient to form a mission of those true and full blooded Ephraimites who from principle and love of the truth have born the most extreme burdens, fatigue and hunger to prosecute the mission to [p. [15]]