Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate/Volume 3/Number 1/Letters from elders

Elder Libbeus T. Coons states to us verbally that he left Kirtland on the 12th of April travelled and preached mostly in the State of New-York where notwithstanding the prejudice and prepossession of men, he proclaimed the word as opportunity offered and doors opened, and as he trusts, left a favorable impression upon the minds of many that were before darkened by bigotry and superstition. The Elder tarried at no time long in any place, having travelled about one thousand six hundred miles by land and water, du-ring his absence and returned on the fifteenth of last month! Yet notwithstanding the Elder's short stay in any one section of country, the testimony he was able to bear, was such, that he baptized thirteen, and many more were willing to hear and investigate the things of which he spoke.

Elder Stevens left Kirtland in May last, travelled into the State of N. Y. and preached in different places as opportunity offered, but confined his labors more particularly to a region of Tompkins County where through his instrumentality a small branch of the church was raised up, consisting of eight members The elder returned here the first of Sept. after having but barely sown the good seed, but, we hope it may grow and multiply.