| Show A Vote lastant Allibiana To the rjion I Having rcid the welcome items thlt are presented In your Deseret Weekly my partner and mysell feel it our duty to render unto you our thanks and appreciation apprecia-tion of the same During Ihe short time I that I have been assigned to innor as alive nuionv I a-live not read any news from thll put ol the globe and IhereLre I feel to remind the people that such a place as bou h Alabama is yet in exist once and as fir as nilisionary work i is concerned tile Elders Are pressing forward with great diligence Our labors are proving a pleasure instead of tasks by being greeted on every hand with friends wlu once were hard hearted but who now have cleansed themselves from the pow cr of Satan and have gone lo worship Ing the Father who rules in heaven and would at any moment seal 1 their testimony testi-mony with their li es blood to the truths ol the Gospel ol Christ which has been planted so deep and strog into the PC r Ji GdoJ 1 ngivrf lIlh = todie > that God lias given ill nil humanity human-ity who dwell upon the lace 01 the earth I left home in that dear valley of the Rocky Mountains on the 1511 of April 1897 and was landed oiiAlaoann soil on the list ct the same month where I was met by other Elders who conducted me to a Sister ackbsn a at Brcwton Ei cambia county Alabama tj pall the night After conrercewhlch convened on the oho May I was assigned to labor as a Meteoiic Elder In Wilcox and Monroe counties Alabama and have been working in i that capacity ever since Wchavernad many kind friend and are receiving opening tll make many more It Iurprlsing Ith hat rapidity the truths ol God are being advanced here in the South and what effect it has on the peep e The Elders are enjoying good healm and the bet of tretlent and in almost eery case arc gaining very rapidly in weight My weight when I left home was one hundred and slxt pounds but now I would be safe in I Baying that I balance the scales at one hundred and seventy five or eighty soon > so-on can readily see tint we are not uf lerlng from wart ol food and kindness The Hardest trial that we hae to contend con-tend with is the intense heat that is bating over the Southern States With best wishes and love and the blessings at God upon those who are doing His I 1111 I sill remain a loving I friend to the cItizens of Salt Lake Ell = M DAE i |
