I gave this report to my Bishop and was called through ward and stake authorities for the Mission to go to Europe, sent by the head of the Church like other missionaries from Salt Lake City the next spring. That put an end to the sheep business.

I got acquainted right here on the Canadian prairie with a good Church member. His family was yet in the Old Country, and he came first to make money to send for the rest of the family. His name was William Harkness, a very fine gentleman who later on became my father-in-law.

When I came to Salt Lake City for spring conference, also on the road to my Mission, I visited Brother Harkness and family who had now come up from the Old Country. I now saw my wife for the first time. We decided to get married in the Salt Lake Temple when I got back from my Mission.

To be sure I had a wife when I got back from my Mission I went to the head of the Church to get the ceremony of marriage performed just before I left on my Mission. The word was sent to the president and the answer was yes. If I would bring the license and the girl they would marry me. I wet and got the license and Miss Annie Harkness. We came to the first president’s office, and John Henry Smith of the First Presidency performed the marriage ceremony according to the law of the land.

That took place a few hours before I left Salt Lake City, the tenth day of April, 1908, to go on my Mission to Denmark.

When we came to Osian, we got on the Steam Ship called Canada, that took us to Liverpool, England. We then took the railroad across England to Hull, there we got on a ship to Copenhagen. I together with the other Missionaries arrived safely all the way coming. Now we were sent out to our different field of labor by the Mission President.

Now I was on my Mission full of faith, hope and charity, and here to bear witness of the true Gospel and plan of Salvation, we have received it freely.