Yeager Timbimboo's Missionary Journey in Search of a Great Spirit

Prompted by the bo'ha visions of Sagwitch, Yeager Timbimboo and three others traveled on foot to Ibapah to find Latter-day Saint missionaries, leading to their baptism after enduring significant hardships.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in Native Saints: A Database of Latter-day Saint Native Americans, Church Historians Press, "Yeager Timbimboo (ca. 1848–1937)"):

Mae Timbimboo Parry—Sagwitch’s great-granddaughter and Northwestern Shoshone tribal historian—reported that Sagwitch first looked west, sending Yeager and three other Shoshone men to Ibapah, a Goshute community on the Utah-Nevada border. When he spoke in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in 1926, Yeager recounted that “in [his] younger days [he] was sent with others to this country towards the west in search of a Great Spirit. . . . The company of Indians traveled by foot day and night, and endured hardships, hunger and thirst.” When they reached Ibapah, the delegates found Latter-day Saints there. “We were baptized by those elders,” he recalled. When Yeager remembered how he came into the church, his journey to Ibapah was foundational.