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Show wwe mest” DAE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS March Page 11 1, 2007 Hans Christian Soren Nielsen Source: Booklet ‘Autobiographies of the Gospel Doctrine Class of Huntsville Ward, 1961 born Eighth of 1900 in Lyngerup, Kyndley Kregstrup, Denmark, the son of Niels Soren Nielsen and Ann Christina Hansen and | was named H nos Christian the Hans Christian Soren Nielsen, aka “Chris the Danishman.” Soren Nielsen. My family consisted of my father ters, and three brothers. One brother died when he was an infant and I was named after him. When I was fourteen years old, I went to live with a farmer where | had been the summer before. I went to school two days a week and worked for the farmer the rest of the week, for which I received my board and room and $10.00 as my wages for six months. I was born in the Lutheran Church, and in about 1918-19, I became interested in Seventh Day Adventist Literature. It seemed to me to be in harmony with the Bible, which I was studying at the time. During that time a certain man came back to Denmark from Canada. I was working in the village of Dalley and heard him tell some of the stories about Mormons. How some had many wives, and when the young girls came to Utah they took all their possessions and who was a tailor, my mother, two sis- clothes away from ] them so that they would not, dared away. not or run pushed it aside. I saw it was published the Mormons and was stamped 1914. After reading it, I knew that sometime I would become a Mormon. My mother told me later, that two men had been there many years ago, had left the pamphlet, and told her that after reading it she would be a different person. The address of the mission home in Copenhagen was printed on the back. I e for more information. I studied, read “the story of Joseph Smith’s life, and later on read the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price. August 1924, I went to Copenhagen twenty miles away to apply for baptism in the L.D.S. Church. I was baptized on August 4, 1924. I was ordained a Priest in 1926, and an Elder in 1928 by Brother Joseph L. Peterson, who was the President of the Danish Mission. On the 9 of January 1929, I immigrated to Huntsville, Utah, where I have made my home until the present time. I was called on a mission in October One day in 1920 when I had a day off, I went to spend it at my parent’s home. As usual I looked through some of my mother’s pamphlets, which she was in the habit of buying and saving. these, “A ee 1938 and left in January of 1939 for the Danish mission. When I arrived in Copenhagen, I received word that my mother was very ill. I was allowed to go to my parent’s home at once and be with my mother. She passed away a few days later. I was called back to the United States due to World War II, October 193 I was ordained a Seventy in one of 1939, and a High Priest in 1953. have been group Secretary of ain Seventies Quorum, and have been a Ward Teacher for about thirty one years. During the time I was ae the Mormon religion, I had no direct contact with anyone ealenntag, to the church. I wrote for information and then carefully studied it. I met the missionaries and members of the church for the first time when I went to Copenhagen to apply for baptism. Note: These photos and article submitted courtesy of the Huntsville Town History Department. Historical Photo Discussion,” interested me now. I had seen it there before, but being more interested in boy and Indian stories, had lways eee Front view of the Nielsen home in Huntsville. The Dog Derbies of Old Home of Hans Christian Soren Nielsen located on the corner of 7200 East 200 South in Huntsville. Photo courtesy of the Huntsville Town History Department. Celeste C. 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