Nixy the Apache's Conversion and Change of Life

“About six years ago about this time of year, as I came up to my father's tent, I saw two strange white men, like these elders you see here to-night. I did not know who they were, but I felt a strange feeling come over me. My father told me not to be too hasty, but to give them a hearing, which I did, and they proved it. Now, gentlemen, before that time I was the wildest and fiercest of all my tribe, the quickest with my knife, and a drunkard and a gambler. Since I was baptized into the 'Mormon' Church I have never used my knife, or hatchet, nor drank any kind of liquor, used any kind of tobacco or profaned the name of God. I have been a new man. I have been trying to live a life that would be pleasing to my Heavenly Father. I know Joseph Smith was inspired and chosen of God to bring forth the Book of Mormon for the saving of our people. I know that the gospel as taught by the Latter-day Saints is the true gospel of Jesus Christ, and I am thankful that I have been brought to a knowledge of the truth.”

— Nixy the Apache, as reported in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 70, No. 39