| Show ELDER TEJIlISl REPORT Seeds An Interesting Account of iffi if In and Around AnacojJj Jlontana ANACONDA Montana Feb 21697 To Iho Editors < 1erbapsafew lines from Montana will be perused with Interest by a largo class ot your reader I find the mlfooory letters are Anxiously road hy those who are Interested 10 the work of God ou alb no miller by whom they are written or from what putt of the earth they come A low years ago Hone had prophesied hat tbe stale of Montana would soon become a useful and pleasant field for missionary labor of our Elders such a one cuM have lccn counted foolish In the extreme Yet this Is the clots of attain here Already I there ale six I Ciders l actively at work i LldersU J Black and Use Young are at work In Jefferson valley They have been laboring there for too past three wok and meet with no sellout obstructions excel tr rerbapi the low stage ol Fahrenheit thermometer Which rUihlrLI during tile late COIA blimps down In the 306 below AV is rule Ibo people feat the Elders tried ly and listen lo them as they relate tbo story of the Gospel 1 of Josua Christ Whether t auy obey the same or not la 1 for the future to develoi Elders F 1 Allison cast W Thorn ley are at present laboring lu I Butte and vicinity where they boo beeu for the Past two months or moro mel lug with no meat opposition Their labors have been to warn the people ul f their duty to dod and to obey Ills i mandates preaching al the f1remide I and In puollc as occaalu preet teJ It met The good load town Yet lmoy 11111 Ifeltlve soil In which t i develop Eldel WlollI Jphuon an Ll the writer are ut tiuieut in Anaconda I doing their miD lu I spreading the truth there anti In the surrounding country Steel Ibis mkslou was opened last I summers a stood walk his bu oom pllh A large and lonllhlDI branch baa bon organized ul au San Jay obeol With avero aLtendaucoot abaut thirty well Ulcered with devoted de-voted coua ant workers and well supple I with books etc for its use Ibo school Is conduce I ou the graded system and Is I trying to conform con-form to the unaeis of thu autborllles In these things Till Buuday services are hold In a large room at the heaj of Alder street vrnlch the Saints rent Bobool at 10 01 Sacrament meetligat 2 1 JiLo and regular pochlul service at 7 30 p I The evnului meet ngs Ufa being attended more largely hy nnbelver than formerly and ftrav are Inquiring alter the Uoipol Previous lo the recent very cold weather wo haves had J liters visit Deer Lodce valley balding public meetings end visiting from house to I house with good prospects In fact there are several 1100 01 worship out school houses opened to the Elders which will ed accepted as soon as the weather gets oIUd I II to bore 1 to travel I HuidsyJinuar 4 1 resident r L II cks pam us a vlbli arrlvlne here lu tue midst of a Montana bllzsird He stayed with us two dayp givilist tie sinless end Elder encoulugomul and oiunicl tbelr labor having a supply sup-ply of tracts aria other Cnurcb wjrUs to artist lu epioidlne the Gospel He spoke very forcibly of Ibo conduct ot members uf Ibe Cburcb coming here Irom Utah and elbewhere and moving away again leaving their debts unpaid un-paid as home had done heretofore The speaker Bald ouch acts of dlsboues Ir could not and would nut be tolerated by the Church He left bete for Lima Ihli Btile where there I another cnllby I branch of Ibo Church Jau 611 Elders Johnson and ToP m Points To-P It Cldt Jim H ornlej mail I Mason to Mesilorvllli bold 11 g service the same OT90 In I lu the M L enure The followlrjc nvenluc we bAJ I the plcmure of Speaking In theM the-M fe church south t colors I In Butte to an au llsnco ol 1 about flftn i a1 I related At both placed we wen received kindly Itev a U Byas colored lit4or of the Bull church Inviting us to come again This ie thruzu took notes t 01 our quotal Restated In the stingiest etc We al Ilblltlllh onl hUMllo Lite very cold weather and Initiflicleut advartin IUL ot the notlrf 1 asl Sunday Elder Leonard Jones au exemplary young man was set apart as unielor 10 Brother A Sun r 1 who I i realdli g Elder of the branch hero and to wll m much credit Is due lor the t Integrity and Interest I e laku In all that permits to the upbuilding of IUD work lour young men and boys were ordained to the efllco ol Dsaoaa thus adding more material lo the working forces of the breach Too much cannot be amid lu protest of almost every member of Ibo branch who work at all for the trot In forest they lake In all of their uulles Of course wo have the usual allotment of that cities who arepleasoct that the breach h I Prospering but who arm content to 11 the willing ones do all the labor We suppose thin Is the came everywhere Orand occasion Salute seem to lit abundant bllndnl List week a poly of Saints lo Ibm l11nlr 01 lorlyoule110IdKRlbr m me home of Broil IT and later M McCuno at Mill Creek mud eujoyrd their hII content Ih 0 pleabutek 01 001 dances oak ple fruits and sociability known only to the Latter day Below 1 ouiltled saying that tho Ballots In Anaconda have Indulged In a nice cr apel organ tu I assist In their cervices This Is I cf much benefit In tbf t > li ting exercise 11 TEMtT |
