---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Daybell, William
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 9
published: 1899-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Daybell, William, "Missionary Experiences: A Dream Fulfilled," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 9 (July 1899): 686.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera29unse
start_page: 686
end_page: 686
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29unse
  publication_year: 1899
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Missionary Experiences: A Dream Fulfilled

<!-- page:686 -->

MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES^

                      A DREAM FULFILLED.

                    BY ELDER WILLIAM DAYBELL.

     Leaving my home in Charleston, Wasatch County, Utah, in the
spring of 1885, 1 was assigned to the Middle Tennessee Conference.   With Elder Jesse N. Perkins I was further directed to
labor in Warren County, and in August, 1886, we were traveling
in the vicinity of the     Cumberland mountains.    The weather was
very hot, do as we would, the people would not listen to us, and
the result was that we seemed to accomplish very little good; and
further, we were constantly denied food and shelter.    Under these
circumstances we became discouraged and determined to leave the
neighborhood for other parts.         We had learned to ask the Lord
when in trouble, so one night we sought him in fervent prayer believing that he would direct us aright.  We petitioned him to lead
us to the doors of the honest in heart and to a people among whom
we might do some good. We obtained lodgings that night; and
during my slumbers, I had a dream in which I clearly saw what to
do upon the morrow.        This is the dream:
     I thought   we arose in the morning, and directed our way from
the head of the Stones River in a northerly direction, up a certain
ridge, in that vicinity.     Arriving at the top of the mountain, we
passed a school house in which school was in session. As we passed,
the children came to the door and evinced surprise at seeing us,
but remained very quiet while we went on our way.       Going a half
mile further on, we came to a house near which, as we approached,