| Show MISSION FIELD elder eugene jones tells of german scenes the following letter from eugene jones to his father will interest STUTTGART germany dac 22 1896 by the heading you will see that I 1 have been changed from basel to stuttgart the change was cannad by the abick bro who was with me leaving for home the star did not give him a decd off that would suit me although I 1 suppose it was all he was worth as I 1 could not see that he was ack enough to go home and we were together for little oyer a month this place is about or miles north and a littie east of basal I 1 got on the cars at 1039 a m and did not rest only 30 minutes on the way ed here at p m so you can see the difference between the railroads here and those at home at present six of us are rooming to gether in one small room it is all we can do to move around at all those with me are albart jK rickson grantsville Grants ville utah a merchant AW hart a lawyer of glogau philip maycock a school teacher of salt lake JOB a cowboy of boquer utah and will meldrum of bro erickson has bean called to leipzig to taka charge of the mission at that place then we all think either bro maycock or myself will oe moved somewhere also I 1 would like for one reason to slay here aa we come to thebinh every morning and study thia place is a reading room and library kept up for the benefit of the people it ia a quiet clean and warm place I 1 think I 1 am boins better with the language since I 1 cams here however I 1 am subject to their calls end will try and make the baat use of my cimeno matter where they may put me last sunday bro erickson and my self were admitted to the we were shown all through the building it ia the grandest place 1 have ever ssta the curtains draperies carpets fu and all are far to rich for my description in one room they have four aes which cost m or the furnishing and decorating of another room cost A person can hardly realize where they are being in eo rich a building after bebing ajl this building we made oar selves known as missionaries and pride ourselves with the thought that we gave them tracts I 1 suppose the first in building everything is military as nearly every other one h ere aers s me kind of uniform the population iq and 1 must say the people are the bet looking as a whole of any I 1 have yet sn s n your son mccami bia frau pack bobynger S r 87 stuttgart Wurt germany |
