John Isaac Morley served in the Southern States Mission from 1910 to 1912. Elder Morley kept a journal of his time in Blount County. He married in the Manti Temple in 1901. They already had four children at the time of his call to serve in the East Tennessee Conference. In a 1910-postcard to his family, he wrote: “Live your religion, for it is the power of God unto salvation to all those who live and obey.”