Show from the Alis mission sion field ST PAUL MINN march 5 08 editor vernal express dear sir thinking perhaps a few lines from this the minneapolis conference of the church or of jesus christ of latter day saints would be of interest to the readers of your valuable paper I 1 will give you an outline of our work during the summer in the country Q and of our work in the twin cities st paul pau and minneapolis and also some figures conference was held may aidy ath 1907 in this city president G E elsworth of the northern states mission presiding elder C P olsen was appoint appointed cd to preside deover over the minneapolis conference the elders were then sent to their fields of labor elder C C clement and myself were sent to the city of rochester where we labored one month when president olsen with eight other elders met wit i us they having walked through tha th country from their fields of labor and held confere conference in that city and paying 4 for the use of a hall to hold one meeting on sunday af afternoon ter there were eight persons come in we held our meeting on the street that evening with from two to three hundred so BO we held all meetings gg on the street wo we were then organized into a traveling conference with elder C C clement cleman t in charge his II 11 is labor was to make inake out the route each pan pait of elders should take from there to faribault Fan bault the next place of meeting and toi ns bet between een which they should hold meetings in each night on their journey for the elder to stay over sunday advertise and pi ebare for meetings get the consent of the mayor of tho the city alio alho look after the la laundry mg and take care of the extra books and tracts etc our plan was to all leave monday morning each pair of elders taking the route marked out for them carrying their grip filled with literature from five to ten books of f mormon from ten to twenty five smaller doctrinal books and seventy five to one hundred tracts not forgetting our toilet outfit buchas razor baush soap clothes brush hair brush comb shoe blacking outfit and tooth brush a few other trinkets when our grips are packed they weigh from 18 to 25 oi 01 more pounds with our gup in ono one hand our umbrella in the other our bible in our pocket we are prepared for our journey of from 60 to 80 miles saying nothing notting of the walk of from one to one hundred and sixty rods up to the farm house and back in traveling through the country we must depend on the hospitality of the people for food and lodgings we were urged to dispose of as many books of mormon and other books as possible and also to leave tracts but inmany in many in stances we wei e ordered to leave tracks and that with heels toward the door and in every in instance stanLe as nar as I 1 can find out it has haa been by the strongest pi pio 0 of christianity Christ anity in living rochester we traveled southwest est to near the corner of the state thence north to I 1 furgus falls myself and companion passing through tho the north east cast and south east corner of the dalot Dd kotos thence south east cast ero crowing fung our track to spring valley thence north east cast to wynona ane company I 1 was in was on tho the march 19 weeks and there were to other companies formed in juno june and july four elders eldera ci e taken from the first for that purpose making three conferences traveling a breast so that we covered a large space of country during the summer there were more elders sent this thia fall so there has ha been 24 boiking in the cities this winter there are between five and six hundred bundred thousand souls in the two cities the plan for city work this winter has been to visit the business men in their places of business and the ministers mini in their homes for that purpose a pair of elders are assigned a number of blocks to work some of which aro ara ten or twelve stories high they go in step in the cage and are taken to the top floor then vork ork each floor as they go down some of those buildings have as high as offices ia in them another pair may boas beas signed a certain cartain district to meet all of the ministers they generally get the hurry up call as the do not have very much time to spend on a mormon elder cider I 1 alre will willbe be a thorough canvas made as fai as we go so that we can take up the work where it is left olf off this spring in the year 1907 there were 1700 books of maimon and doctrinal disposed of there were 1300 meetings held 21 baptisms performed tithing paid by 33 tithe payers the saints remember with pleasure all the uintah elders who have labored in this conference confere ice tle tl e elders are all well and enjoying their labois they visit all from the gohei governor gov einor nor in the state capitol down missing none that will give gic them a hearing there has been quite an excitement amog some of the city fathers and newspaper men inen and clergy they seemed to think the mormons cormons were going to invade their i schools and fill them up with mormon literature juat the thing for tha aldeis the people begin to wonder and enquire what these mormons cormons are teaching and cause those who are deec ng for ti u th to investigate this gives the elders a chance to teach the gospel to th them em as it is taught by the latter day saints ever praying for tho the truth and that it may rapidly spread until it fills filla the whole earth and sin and sorrow shall no more be known hoping your valuable paper may grow even faster then terii our beautiful city of vernal is ia growing is ia the desire of your well wither R B REMINGTON university ave st paul minn |