Show I F I It 1 A I A H rJ J I I o I i iiiI iiI i J THE rnE WORK IN ICELAND Difficulties Encountered by tho the Missionaries There Hut flu Ilin 1110 Ib of or Ilio ti Lurd rn to It I Church Elder John writes from I Dorl Iceland Sept 1 I as ItS follows I I 1 appreciate the tho Deseret Newt News It R Is Isn I n 1 stunt grat comfort comfor to me In lilY my lonely i condition while I am nm laboring hero here I close up 19 t the North Polo 1010 I 1 always have It St with th mo zno willie traveling In the tho country and anil many times I take ft II t rest and then Ihen It Is l rend read with Interest especially the tho Church Intelligence I always feel Joy In lii my labor for I 1 know knoy that the tile work Is the tho Lords I Ihn have hare hn VO seen the sick nick Iek healed under my toy ad Id administration administration ministration by b tho tile power of God even cven one blind Jot got her night ht Last Iut winter while laboring In the th capital city I mot met a girl 12 years of ago ngo who had hud had a 11 pain In her hof head for tar ft n long time She Phe vas waa brought to the tho doctor and wall under his care for Cor two months or more and he could not cure her She got lot blind In ono one eye and ond the doctor told her parents that she Rho would never nover get her sight On the tho lUh of April Avril last Brother Lorenzo An Andersen n dersen antI myself visited the family and prayed and then adminis administered to her for her sight Two weeks Oell later Inter I 1 visited that family again and then thon the Irl IrI rod for tor mo mp m In the Now New Testament Just ns as well with the tha eye ee 1 that Clint she sIe had been heen blind on m as ns with the theother theother theother other That was WM n a great grent Joy to tous us nil all nilI allI I have had d tho the Privilege of or lending leading four souls s Into the waters of oC baptism one of whom was Willi a son On of a n Lutheran priest a 1 very ver good and Intelligent nt man mall seventy years of oC ng alt age He lie rejoiced nail and praised ed the Lord when ho he came camo out of oC tho the water ater lie Ho realized tho the words of our Savior that unless man Inca be bl born of oC water and of the spirit s ho Iw cannot en enter enter 4 ter Into the kingdom of foil Ho JIo went I to Canada the of June last nail mill had n a great desire to see Utah to labor lallor laborIn In the housu of the tho Lord For two months PMt past I C havo have been ticen traveling nil all allIn In the north part hart of or the country walk walking walking ing nail 1111 wallin the rivers every day clay distributing tracts tract and books among the people They have havo not much time timeto to spare this season of the year to road rend rendor or listen to discourses for they are oro working In the tho summer time almost In They come como home about 10 or 11 Ii In the evening and are gone nain nt at 0 6 or 7 In the th morning They arc are scattered all 1111 over the country and When n we enter their dwelling places we will find only an nn old and the children at nt home The Tho people are living In III a I scattered condition and It ItIs ItIs Itis Is impossible to get them together for forn fora n a meeting and most moat of oC them th m will lay It lIt the tho tracts tract and books hooks aside ashle til tho the win winter winS S ter ler comes |