Mrs.Judson's female classes had fallen off ever since Mr.Hough's summons, and the state of things was such, that the Houghs decided on removing to Bengal.
Mrs.Judson, with her little girl, most reluctantly decided to accompany them, but, just as the vessel in which they sailed had gone down the river, she was ascertained not to be seaworthy; and, during this delay, Mrs.Judson's fears of her husband's finding her gone, if he ever returned to Rangoon, so increased, that she went back with her child to the house, and, brave woman as she was, took up her abode there with the native servants, trusting herself wholly to the protection of her God.
She was rewarded by her husband's arrival, after an absence of nine months, caused by the captain of his ship having broken his engagement, and carried him on to Madras, where he had been detained all this time for want of a vessel to return in.

The Houghs also came back, and two young men from America soon after came out, full of zeal and activity, but both fell ill very shortly afterwards, and the younger died, but his fellow, Mr.Colman, became a valuable assistant.
This era, the spring of 1819, was the first great step in the Burmese mission.

Funds had been raised by the Baptist Society in America, which were applied to the erection of a zayat or public room, with walls of bamboo and a thatched roof.

It had two rooms, one for a school for the women, another for the men, who gladly learnt to read and write from Mrs.
Judson and a Burmese teacher.

Here, too, Mr.Judson openly held prayers and preaching on Sunday, and these attracted many, some of whom would come in the week for private discussion.
The first real convert was a man of thirty-five, named Moung Nau, poor, but of excellent character, and so intelligent, that he became a useful assistant after his baptism, on the 27th of June, 1819.