Monday, January 31, 1876

Jan. 31st.  We went to Goulburn, spent part of the day with Mayberry's, went to the post office, and returned to Chittenden's.  It was 126 degrees in the sun and 96 in the shade.

Sunday, January 30, 1876

Sunday, Jan. 30th.  We spent the morning in teaching the Gospel to the family.  in the afternoon we had a walk in the Bush, then a further Gospel talk.  In the evening, we retired to a stream, one half mile away, and baptized Caroline, Eliza and Hyrum Chittenden, Brother Cluff officiating.  Returning to the house, we confirmed them.  After singing and prayer, I gave a short cheering address.  We felt we had spent the day with good results.

Saturday, January 29, 1876

Jan. 29th.  This morning, after Brother Cluff and I retired in Prayer, we consecrated oil and administered to Brother Crittenden, who has, for some time, been suffering from kidney trouble.

Friday, January 28, 1876

Jan. 28th.  We went back to Goulburn and to Mayberry's and looked over their Church works, of which they have a supply.  They had a record of the Camden Branch, from which I take the following: Brother Chittenden, six in number; and Mayberry, two in number; and their families were baptized Apr. 24th, 1854.  A Branch of the Church was organized Jan. 3rd, 1857 with 11 members, Thomas Mayberry, President.  The Elphic family of three completed the eleven.  Brothers Stewart, Potter, Dowdle and others filled appointment until May 21st, 1855.  Mayberry left the Branch in July 1859.  I had a further talk with a fellow passenger from Sydney.

Thursday, January 27, 1876

Jan. 27th.  After bath and breakfast, I bade good-bye to the Peg family and the Brethren and took the train for Goulburn, 134 miles - ticket 1-8-6 (1 pound - 8 shillings - 6 pence) - Brother Cluff accompanying.  At 32 miles we pass Kembleton, where the Gospel was preached in 1854 and a small branch started in 1857.  We pass small settlements and farms.  At 85 miles we are on a mountain top 3,000 feet high.  We reached Goulburn at 5:00 P.M.  For the last ten mies the country opens out with hills in different directions.  Goulburn is less inviting that I had expected.  Like Sydney, it has poor water, four of five thousand population.  On the train I had a conversation with a passenger about the country, and then, as usual, on the Gospel.

We found our first address, Thos. Mayberry, at Newton, a half mile from the main town.  He lives in a house of his own - a Bush house.  He is Welsh with an English wife and a family of three boys and three girls.  The parents accepted the Gospel twenty years ago at Cambelton.  In drifting about, the children have not been baptized.  They have not seen Latter-day Saints for sixteen or eighteen years.  Brother Mayberry went with us to Brother Chittenden's, and his wife's father, at Tyranna, a small settlement four miles distant.  They, like the Mayberry's, have not met with Latter-day Saints for eighteen years.  They have, at home, two daughters and one son and a grand daughter, also an orphan they hire.  We stayed the night.

Tuesday, January 25, 1876

WORK IN GOULBURN AND TYRANNA

Jan. 25th.  I spent the day at Brother Speight's and in the evening, packed my valise for a trip to Goulburn.

Monday, January 24, 1876

Jan. 24th.  I prepared matter for the cover to "Only way to be Saved", and went with President Groo and Croxall and arranged to have it printed.