In 1883 left the rich peasant, Mads Nielsen, his good farm in Daugstrup on Nordfyn. He travelled from the farm, his beloved wife and six sons. He was Mormon and took a train to Utah now to be saved, a son and daughter of fraud had already been raised.
In a small town called Elsinore, they built new lives up. In large slotted cultivated the desert. By hand they dug irrigation canals, and art to irrigate a field had learned. 50 preserved letters sent home to his wife and mother in Daugstrup tells not only this. Secession, segregation and lack of a wife are strong themes of Mads Nielsen letters.
The letters also gives an understanding of the rock-solid faith, which was Mads Nielsen to leave everything he loved. He was among the 17,000 Danes who emigrated in the years 1852-1900 in order to await Jesus' imminent return of God's chosen country, Utah.
