Tuesday, November 19. meters., when we rowed our selves over the Wairoa River towards the European city of Clyde otherwise Wairoa. Right after paying a rushed visit to truly the only Second-go out Saint members of the family regarding the urban area (Cousin Hans M. Mortensen) Elderly Gardner and you will me grabbed get-off of all the parents whom was actually all of our last traveling friends (Hoagland, Allen, and Lambert) and you may boarded the little steamer Te Kapu and sailed regarding Wairoa wharf within six:forty-five p.meters. Shortly after sailing along the lake about three miles, i enacted more than a risky club from the their mouth towards the open water. We had a good voyage over the bay (Hawke’s Bay) to help you Napier, thirty-five kilometers away from Wairoa, and landed on Saliva wharf on p.meters. We stayed onboard till morning viewing a beneficial night of rest.
Wednesday, November 20. Followed by Cousin Jane Mortensen, who was an other traveler around from Wairoa, Older William Gardner and that i visited her sibling Samuel Mortensen, which lifestyle over the river into the a little area titled Western Saliva. They are the sole person in the new Church kept off an effective short part which Older John P. Sorenson out-of Sodium River Area elevated right up in Napier and you may vicinity when you look at the 1880. The brand new part was arranged uel hvordan man mГёder asiatiske kvinder, hvis du er sort Hansen because the president.
Nebeker, the fresh presiding elderly regarding the Hawke’s Bay Section. We and additionally grabbed a walk-through the small town of Napier, which contains from the eight thousand society and it has quite a romantic state toward seacoast. The organization part of the city, that has somewhat regular roads, nestles at the feet from a hill you to rises almost perpendicular regarding the sea to a peak more than 3 hundred feet. A few of the finer homes are built on top and you will slopes associated with outstanding hill, which is py and you may low-country, and floor on what Napier stands was evidently just after an effective separate isle. Millions of dollars being invested, partly to help you no purpose, due to the fact mighty sea swells undermine the massive masonry and you may caused the fresh new walls to help you tumble more than on the deep-water; but the workmen are in reality blasting huge rocks regarding the hillside, which they was venturing out to your rails and you can casting towards water since the another shelter on Creekwater right, that’s mainly based off grand concrete blocks, every one of which weighs about 30 tons.
Immediately after our very own morning go to, we took passage in the a bus to the Napier Train Station two miles distant, where we came across Elder Wilford P
From the step 1:30 p.m. Elders Gardner, Nebeker, and you will me personally boarded this new railway illustrate and you will traveled twenty-four kilometers courtesy a lovely and you may frequently fertile country so you can Te Hauke, an indigenous village situated in a romantic nothing area which have a great river within the heart abounding with eels of all the systems. Here we gotten plain old healthy invited regarding the local New orleans saints, since there is quite a branch of one’s Church at that place. Right here we along with fulfilled Parents Thomas J. O’Brien and you can David Lindsey, just who, along with Senior Nebeker, function the new missionary electricity from Zion regarding the Hawke’s Bay District. The fresh new residents at Te Hauke are now living in comfortable wood home, in addition to elders whoever headquarters was right here inhabit a neat little place in one of the prominent homes. The place even offers a fine meetinghouse that is besides equipped that have a stand and seats.
The people away from Napier and area are at present busily involved into the building a breakwater far-out to the ocean getting started from the the new foot of the hill otherwise bluff simply said
Thursday, November 21. This was page-creating date for the parents in the Te Hauke. The fresh American send would be to get off in a day otherwise one or two, and now we all of the got something you should say by the technique of the brand new pen so you can wives, pupils, fathers, parents, nearest and dearest, and you can members of the family in the property of your own Saints, or in “Zion, beloved Zion, far o’er the ocean.” At night i attended and you may talked in the a native prayer and you can testimony appointment.