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At two p.m. we attended meeting. After the sacrament was administered my brother [Lorenzo Snow] preached a short and interesting discourse, after which Bishop [Isaac] Zundel organized a Relief Society, with Sister Elizabeth J. Zundel president, Sisters Melissa Hunsaker and Kohn (Lamanite) Counselors; Sister Harriet Chandler Secretary; Almira Hall Treasurer.

The time would not admit of voting in the members that day, but I have received a report from the secretary, saying that at the next Sunday meeting forty-one members were received, thirty-five of whom are Lamanites; several of whom expressed their gratitude in being thus organized, and their desires to learn to keep house and to make clothing as their white sisters do.¹

One impressive feature of the services in the afternoon meeting, which we attended, must not be overlooked, I.e., the singing, which was all performed by a Lamanite choir of six males and six females. With the many variations[ ]in their tunes, which are very peculiar, the perfection of their time is truly astonishing.

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