When the Saints settled throughout the Intermountain West, the assigning of mission calls switched from a call from the pulpit or a personal conversation to correspondence by mail. One large collection spanning the presidencies of John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith (1877–1918) has been digitized by the Church History Library, and most of the letters have been linked on the individual pages of the Early Mormon Missionaries database.
Joseph Mitchell became very ill during the winter of 1896. He covenanted with the Lord that if he were healed he would do anything the Lord required of him.
Edward Hunter Snow served a mission to the Southern States Mission at the age of 20, but he was again called to serve at age 33, this time to the Eastern States Mission.
She was called to serve in the Western States Mission and served faithfully.