1. Nels Bourkersson, Tre År i Mormonlandet. Berättelser efter Egna Iakttagelser (Malmö, Sweden, 1867). All quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from Bourkersson. Translation is mine.

2. Bourkersson blamed Forsgren’s wives for teaching his wife, Anna Bourkersson, the doctrines of celestial marriage. Forsgren, Bourkersson said, allowed this and even encouraged it hoping later to marry Anna himself. Bourkersson’s feelings are further evidence of the dilemma and his own extreme emotional situation. In spite of what he knows of Mormon morality, he seems to want to believe the worst. He states that he has heard, and believes, that his wife Anna was sealed to Forsgren immediately after her divorce, even before he (Bourkersson) left Utah in the spring of 1867. Actually, what he chose to believe was not so. Anna Holm Bourkersson did not remarry until a year or more after Nels, to her best knowledge, had died, and even then she was not sealed to Forsgren but to Nels Jacobson, December 1, 1868. [Information obtained from family records in the possession of E. Dixon Larson, Orem, Utah, great-grandson of Nels and Anna Bourkersson.]

3. Spoken of Abraham, who believed the divine promise and was rewarded thereby. Romans 4:18.

4. Pearl of Great Price, Moses 7:18.

Richard G. Ellsworth

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