An interesting visit to Mexico first in a vision and sometimes called a dream.

As I was herding on the Canadian prairie, I was carried sitting in a wooden seat and brought along in a south direction and was moved over the top of some mountains and there were towns on top of these mountains. I was moved a long way and I saw some fine country.

Whether I was in the body or out of the body I could not tell.

As I was all alone here in the cool disagreeable winters, herding sheep, it was made known to me that Canada was not the only place for me, for I should go to the south of Mexico. That was made known to me by the Holy Spirit.

So now when I am single against I decided to go and see Mexico, and see what chance there was so make another home, in a warm place.

I left Canada and went to Salt Lake City to work, and I went to Mexico and to my surprise I found out that the very country I was brought to from Canada and I saw in a vision is Mexico. Every place I went to visit, was what I had seen before in my fine vision.

I found the best people in Mexico, that I have ever seen. I was here a whole month before I saw one smoke a cigarette. I did not hear people swear either. It was indeed a paradise to me.

When I came here, some took me for a United States Marshal, and warned the people to look for me. I soon changed their attitude when I went right to their conferences and meetings and made myself acquainted with the leaders, the Stake President, and the Bishops. Irvins was the Stake President at that time.

In a few days, some one told me I was a spy. I answered that if I was a spy, I was a spy of God, that I was a true Latter-day Saint, and I had come to investigate what chance there was to make a home in Mexico, as I had lost mine in Canada.

Parties from Canada came to Mexico and intended to buy land to make colonies in Mexico, but revolutionary wars came up for years and that put an end to the colonization of that time.

One of the twelve told in a meeting, that there was 11,000,000 Indians in Mexico that were ready to join the Church as soon as the Church could take care of them.

President Lyman said that the time would come when people would be called to go to Mexico and he urged young people to learn the Spanish language.

There were a lot of good people in Mexico, and a very good climate too, one of the best in the world, and good rich soil. I was told it was one of the easiest places and best chances to make a living.

After I had been there and saw and good soil and the very good climate and the good people, I felt that Mexico was my country. After it was shown to me, and after I had been there, and seen it I must say I loved Mexico.