My mother-in-law wanted us to move to Manti. I was not in for that. To leave my job and go where there was no demand for laborers, but my wife wanted to be where her mother was, so I quit the Smelters and moved to Manti. At that time they were working on the Temple. I only got a few little jobs, enough to make a living.

In the fall of the year our first daughter was born on the tenth of October. Everything went fine in Manti, only work was scarce and not a desirable place for me.

I was acquainted with a family in Spring City. I went there to visit them and I got a job by a small farmer by the name of Andrew Olsen. I intended to save and be prepared to find a place for all my father’s family when they came from the Old Country. I intended for us all to be prepared to go somewhere to take up a Homestead and be independent.

The leaders of the Church urged the newcomers to do that.