Called to fill a mission to New Haven, Connecticut at a conference held April 10, 1843.
Presided over British mission, 1847-1849
Called to fill a mission to Prussia, but was banished from there and returned to Utah in 1853.
In 1854 he was called upon to perform a mission to the United States until July 1855, when he was requested to occupy the editorial chair of the St. Louis Luminary.