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Show Elder Farlin Wood Writes of State In Which He is Serving Mission Another fine letter came this week from one away from home in answer to an invitation from the 'Herald asking them to write and tell us what they state, so until I am again in Springville, and am able to associate associ-ate with all of you, may I wish the blessings of the Lord upon each of you. Sincerely, Elder Farlin L. Wood. I are doing and something of the$ j place in which they are living. The letter today is from Elder Farlin L. Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Solan Wood, who is serving on a mission in Minnesota and we know that every reader will enjoy reading it. Box 191 New Ulm, Minn. Mar. 21, 1949 The Springville Herald, Springville, Utah Upon consideration, I find that I am one of the away-from-home readers of the Springville Herald who have neglected to write their aDDreciation for receiving the home paper. I truly appreciate the thoughfulness and consideration considera-tion of the Springville Herald for sending their paper to me, and I look forward to it each week with renewed interest. My missionary labors for the past six months have been spent in Glenwood, and New Ulm, Minnesota. Min-nesota. The first three of which were spent in Glenwood a small town of some three thousand people peo-ple mostly Scandanavian, and is lqcated on the banks of Lake Min-newaska, Min-newaska, which lake derives its name from a beautiful Indian Princess who once lived in that locality. For the last three months I have been working in New Ulm, Minnesota where in contrast ' to Glenwood, the people are largely of German descent. In our missionary mis-sionary labors we often find old people who still do not speak the English language, and even today the German language is taught in most of the schools. Although the section around New Ulm, is primarily agricultural, agricultur-al, Minnesota has many inexhaustible inexhaust-ible riches, and industries. One of these is the World's largest open face iron mine, located at Hibbing. Another is Minneapolis who's many flour mills once ground over 18,000,000 barrels of flour in a year, and the City was long known as "the world's miller." Since that time however the City has yielded first place to Buffalo, but its towering elevators are still capable of storing more than 90,000,000 bushels of grain. I am enjoying my work very much, and Minnesota is truly a beautiful state, and a wonderful place to labor as . a missionary, but to every person there is but one home town, and one home |