churches in Piedmont gives this account: "For three hundred years or more, the Bishop of Rome attempted to subjugate the Church of Milan under his jurisdiction. At last the people, rather than own its jurisdiction, retired to the valleys of Luzerne and Angrogna, Piedmont. They adhered strictly to the Old and New Testaments. They held that the Holy Scriptures are the only source of faith and religion. Their doctrine and discipline had been preserved in all it purity and efficacy from the days of the primitive martyrs." When Mother was fifteen years of age in the spring of 1820, she went with her father down into the plains of Piedmont to take charge of silk worms on a silk farm for a man that made sericulture his business. Each had a cot in the large and spacious hall where they were tending the silk worms. One day, about a week before the silk season was over, she had been reading the Scripturesabout the life of Christ and His Apostles and the Gospel as they taught it. At night after retiring to her cot, she lie there pondering upon what she had read and wishing that she had been living in those days when the whole space of the hall became as light as noon day. She arose in a sitting position as she felt a Heavenly influence pervading the room. Feeling this influence, she began singing a sacred hymn when twelve personages, dressed in white robes, appeared and formed in a semi-circle by her cot and joined in the singing. At its conclusion, they and the light vanished. This left a vivid impression in her mind and a foreshadowing of things to come. When she returned home, she related the vision to her mother who, besides referring to others passages concerning the latter days, read from the "Acts of the Apostle", the 17th and 18th verses inclusive" "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and they shall prophesy." It was thrilling to know that my mother had lived to see it all verified. My grandfather John D. Combe, was a religious man; and hungering to be fed "The Bread of life, he went to church regularly. He emerged, therefrom, unsatisfied and would sometimes comment on the differences of the teaching of the day to those of the Saviour and His Apostles and quote prophecies that he thought were not understood. When on his death bed, he said to my sister Mary Catherine: "Take heed to my words, Mary, remember what I say: That the old may not, but the young and rising generation will see the days when the Gospel shall be restored in its purity and powers. And in that day, Mary, remember me." At the October Conference in 1849, Lorenzo Snow was ordained an Apostle and set apart by President Brigham Young to open the Italian and Swiss Missions. The nineteenth of October that same year, the first company of missionaries were sent from Utah. After many hardships and dangers, they finally landed at Liverpool, England. There he selected Elders T. B. H. Stenhouse and Jabez Woodard to labor under his direction. They were sent to the town of La Tour, situated at the foot of the Alps in one of the valleys