My First Mission
About this ebook
If this little work shall have the effect to awaken and strengthen the missionary spirit, if the remembrance of its incidents, shall comfort the hearts and promote the faith of any when they go upon missions, the utmost desire will be gratified of the author.
About the author
George Quayle Cannon (1827 – 1901)
George Quayle Cannon was a gifted and talented man whose contributions were legion. He labored as a missionary, European mission president, writer, publisher, and Apostle. He was a counselor to John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow.
Elder Cannon was the first to translate the Book of Mormon into the Hawaiian language, having helped open the Hawaiian Islands to missionaries in 1850.
Much of his biography of the life of Joseph Smith was written while Elder Cannon was incarcerated in the Utah State Penitentiary for practice of plural marriage.
On 12 April 1901, Church members learned of the death of Elder George Q. Cannon. At the time of his death he was serving as the first counselor in the First Presidency and as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He left his imprint upon the Church through the pages of the Juvenile Instructor, a magazine he had founded and had edited for more than three decades. His public discourses were masterpieces and filled volumes. He was an astute politician who represented the Utah Territory in Congress for more than a decade and was very influential in obtaining statehood for Utah.
