Show m JN SWEDEN AND FINLAND I A lUllan al ad I a Mm Elder lit In Iho Capital 01 u C I Anderson Jr In 0 a om oem Sween Sweden Dec De Ia 13 10 says My Iy first experience In woy bronchi tiers Iwas I IWA In here WA was welcomed b by the presiding Elde ilder f and A C Pearson In connection wih with HI these brethren arid and U O A An elon who came cam a few Cw weeks later laler I 1 labored In tie the branch tracts holding meeting and d such ludt other duties dutt a as fal fail to thu lot of oC 11 aut J hel To begin wih with it I wal was rather a task luk I Imy as my knowledge ot of the SwedIsh was very limited Ott On the lt lit of March Mah WR this ear lr myself arid fd M 1 wore called to I a new branch Itt In the city of oC Oel whIch Is II between seventy and eighty tulle 1 north of oC Up UI lala sais WI We labored two months during which w we dIstributed bl be between tween 1800 And 20 2000 Gospel tracts lame come books and hell held soY MV eral In ten halls hal which through the kindness of oC the were to Us One On day while I 1 was out I 1 happened Into a mInister residence hen I told lold him Iho who I 1 wa was he hl threw out hith hands and In rather ferre tone tones e cx caime Out with you Then he be commenced telling mn lt hat hal bewilder trig Ing doctrines w we Mormons taught an that I it was R II all frum thi leI devil HI 11 said acid rul years ago alO thel titers hind been beenU U II Mormon through this part art uC of the country spreading tra II a holding In meetIngs and be the hut but lie ht I him u up up those thoN tracts anti nd Save the Ihl people corn 1001 with better doctrine In When I heft he seemed to feel better and spoke quite pleasant Our conversatIon lasted one sad a halt We soot heard beard from torn other uther minIsters of oC the church hurch who u us thy they would do all In theIr power to StOP u UP In out our labors labor there thereAt At our conference whIch con convened In Stockholm on the antI t thi or of April I was lal called to go ero to where there were ware R a few Cel SaInts that hat had riot not been ly by arty all El EI EIel Ellets el lets for several years There Ther Are twelve In II number scattered over about ala mIles ot of country These I round found still anti and glad to be visit ed tI I nice Applied to this the legal au an I of oC the province for Cor permission to 0 labor as 1111 A missIonary limit but Will was to re rUled this privilege e They The told rae all RII their law were subject to con control I II I rol I 1 labored d In this country about two months held CI few rew meeting 1111 over oer three hundred tracts cold some IOme books soil an met semite who vho became arne tors of oC time the Gospel truth I also visited St we have n a fa mil of oC SaInts While there I I oldest bo boy I RIo also baptIzed one person In While In St I ea more mIsery poverty exhIbIted than before or since but what Ih tite moat was this the religious condition of oC the people At our tall MIt whIch con can vetted on the of oC bet Uel In the Sante saml lilacS all as before men tinned myself elf and Elders rs N O 0 Gyl and 1 1 W ErIckson were sent to labor lallor In the bronchi which extends from north lAtitude 01 on this the south beyond latitude tIC Of on the and from Crom the boundarY of oC Norway Nor way to the ou or coast cout or of Swe Sweden den here In the hind of oC the North It was U once onel mid aid man many of oC time the hOllee of oC Israel 1 be found thought ho greater In ater part of oC time the harvest rio no doubt dOlbt has en bt there are till still sonic Hint 10 an interest for Cor forthe the truth and we 1 hue have sonic earnest alors SInce Sinet I came to this branch I have hall had the hite of oC In Ing three Iota into this the waters of oC ba baptism a young hanly anti her two brothers there was AS I snow on the ground and some Ice on tb time water of oC the small lake Inke where this holy ordInance Will vita Attar After being confirmed which occurred Ly by the waters the they expressed their hap hai limes that the they had become numbered In thus true told foul of oC tn In meeting a few weeks ago some or of our local brethren olio also bo bore monies of oC gladness that they hll been h by th time and now th they w were curs Aure they hart had found the thc truth In MW that God and prayers Thought Though false reports are time the walls of oC prejudice are getting weaker W We are Arc always glad to receIve the New I From It 1 we gain many on en and noble thoughts |