Show MORMON missionaries in san francises francisco for the islands the follo whir g appeared in the ilie san rian francisco examiner of may 1 1894 A throng 0 of mormon missionaries arrived from various various par parts ts of utah are are arc no now at the bluss house there are fourteen in all including two women and they are bound to various parts of the pacific three go to new zealand four to tasmania and now new south wales wale four to 0 o samoa an and 1 I three to hawaii the following are arc the miss missionaries ion C L rooks hooks jedediah goff joi jo epli ceph stephenson Step benson walter bunot charles S crow E C dibble alfred jensen jensan W T armstrong dan livingston mrs P 1 A Sc liale mrs J N voster foster christian jensen jr ir alex A senian seman jr and S 11 walker nearly all the emba ss adors of tile the mornion mormon gospel are oung boung men and accustomed to manual toil though some come of them have part of the bo time had other occupations cupat ions the hands of many are horny and deeply bronzed as are their faces 1 most of us ire are right 0 off the farms said christian jenken we have been raised in different parts of utah and scarcely any of us ever met before till we nye started on this trip there is one roan man amons us who has been for a time ill in a bank As for me I 1 have taught school for three years and been for a time at redwood utah where I 1 live some of our party are from the vicinity of salt lake others from ogden and yet others from the small places on oil tho the frontier many of the other mormons asked questions as mr jensen talked they spoke of the recent completion of the n great temple at salt lake after forty years at a cost of and told that there were now five temples ir utah there never was a time continued jensen when the mormon church was so prosperous arid and sending in out so many people to preach the go colel lel during tho ahn pa paiit t year lover ever missionaries have been I 1 dispatched to different parts of the world and these added to what we had out before make several thousand S some onie of our missionaries have han have e had bad a very hard time of it in other parts of the world they have been used very well th these ese mission missionaries aries recently frent fent out have pone gone to england denmark sweden norway germany switz eiland france russia japan turkey canada society islands island italy samoa the sout southern hern states ila hawaii gaii and australia we are going to the portions of the pacific where here we can do the mot good only in samoa and hawaii will our people labor among the natives I 1 in if new zealand and new south wales we will pay no attention to the native blacks but will preach among and to the white people the majority of us will push puh ri right ht out to remote parts most people think it will be a roush hard experience but we bedont dont our faith sustains us each of us its is paying 0 his own expenses the church is not dobie it in some of our neighborhoods at home friends of the church gave a little party parly and at these those who desired would give 50 cents or 1 which was turned over to the missionary sio nary but it was all voluntary when it was done it will cost each of us about to go and come none of us will be gone less than three years and some will be gone five years we contribute both our money and time all the cormons mormons seem very devout and very zealous |