Unidentified Elder’s Faith and Missionary Success

An elder, having left his wife and three children (including twin infants) about eight months prior, was encouraged by his wife to labor in the vineyard. Since leaving, he has been instrumental in bringing nearly 300 people to the gospel.

Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, June 1837 (Vol. 3, No. 9), page 521):

An elder, who has been absent from his family about eight months, having left a wife and three children, (two of whom were twins, and infants at the time of his departure,) has been instrumental in the hands of God, in bringing nearly three hundred souls into the kingdom, since he left his home. His wife, in a letter to him, says, 'Go on, my dear husband, and labor in the vineyard of the Lord; I can take care of the children.'