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Show Mapleton Missionary Is Welcomed Home Miss Bee Mendenhall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Mendenhall, has just returned from an 18 months mission to the southern states mission, with headquarters in Atlanta, She will be officially welcomed at a special program arranged for Sunday evening at 7 p. m., in the Mapleton ward chapel. All members mem-bers of the Mapleton ward and friends are invited to attend. The first nine months of her time was spent in Waycross, Georgia, where she found the people peo-ple very hospitable and friendly. Religious concepts are constantly changing in the south, as evidenced evi-denced by the fact that Miss Mendenhall Men-denhall and her companion lived for sometime in the home of a Baptist minister and his wife, who kept boarders. They also were frequent visitors at the home of a lady who has written two histories of Georgia. She paid a glowing tribute to the faith and courage of the Mormon pioneers, and also of mvuuuii pioneers, ana also of the missionaries who left their homes to carry the message of ' their faith to all parts of the world. The last part of Miss Menden-h Menden-h all's mission was spent in Columbia, Colum-bia, South Carolina, where she participated with about 60 missionaries mission-aries and over 1000 members in the organization of the new South Carolina Stake of Zion. The mess and the chamber of commerce "were very favorable to the church during dur-ing this time. The Columbia Record Rec-ord said: "Members of the Church of Bt'wwmjumii Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint3 in South Carolina will see the fulfillment ful-fillment of over 100 years of activity ac-tivity with the organization of a stake of the church to be effected October 18 and 19 in Columbia, under un-der the direction of Elder Albert E. Bowen and Henry D. Moyle of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, who have come to the south from headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah." |