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Show Attends LDS Church Conference In China Leonard Ahlstrom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tipton Ahlstrom of Cedar, Ce-dar, was among more than 50 Latter Day Saints who attended a Mormon Mor-mon Conference held in Kunming China on August 20th. By airplane, truck and jeep, the religious pilgrims assembled at Kunming for a two-day program of prayer services and reunions. They were granted special weekend week-end furloughs by their commandinj officers at the direction of Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, theater commander, com-mander, and MaJ. Gen. H. S. Aur-and, Aur-and, commanding general, Services of Supply. The conference opened Saturday Satur-day morning with registration of visiting Saints at the Red Cross Town Club. In the afternoon the first service was held at the Zion Methodist Church In downtown Kunming. Pfc. John B. Robinson of El Paso, Texas, elder-in-charge of the Kunming Saints, led the service ser-vice and preached on the subject, "Blasphemy." Saturday evening there was a banquet In an Army jness hall which was brightly decorated with Chinese laterns and evergreens. A short entertainment, arranged by Robinson, was presented. The conference continued Sunday Sun-day morning with a testimony service ser-vice led by Sgt. Melvln Graham of Salt Lake City. Feature of the afternoon af-ternoon was a trip along the Stll-well Stll-well Road to the Buddhist and Toa-1st Toa-1st temples on West Mountain at the foothills of the' Himalayas. Sunday evening's service, conducted con-ducted by Cpl. Carl G. Page of Ogden. |
