of loffty imagination from having to write and striving to be able in some measure to realise your expectations in my improvement. It makes me think and feel as if actually you were the only person upon earth that I had an object in life for and fancy that whatever tends to amuse or gratify me I should have the same effect upon you and wish I could just tell you everything that concerns my pleasures & disappointment. The latter like all people who give way to building "castles in the air". I frequently meet with which must be borne patiently with for without them we would begin to forget the most important duty of our existence which is to glorify our Divine Maker by living a life of devoted piety and living as an example to those who have not had Gospel privileges which we enjoy and as far as in our power lies to strive and cultivate a missionary spirit of holy love piety to do good to our fellow creatures especially those who have not had the light revelation is bountifully bestowed upon them as we have which God in his all wisdom may perhaps now appear to our limited comprehension an impenetrable mystery why so many of ones fellow creatures