| Show OUR PIONEERS phoned ERS mrs Ms olsen lybbert nis we life sketch which follow follows mrs mm lybbert wrote herself in 1924 I 1 was born in Chrls tania norway january 18 16 IMS 1845 1 I was the first bom born chud child of christian olsen and christine christina nielson olsen I 1 learned to read before I 1 ft wr a f fire ire years old I 1 do not know thua th t any one taught me how but I 1 cannot remember the time when I 1 could not read this made mada school very easy for me I 1 attended a lutheran school in norway one day my teacher said to his pupils the mormon missionaries are in england they we also intending nt to come to norway you must not 90 to hear them speak I 1 was only a child of eight years old when 1 I heard this remark with my whole heart heaxt I 1 resented it and said in my toul sout ir 1 I will so go to hear them I 1 was hungering after righteousness and the spirit was my guide before I 1 was vw ten cars old I 1 prepared for work and earn earning ng aivish I 1 wished to do my bit toward making a living in norway it was i v cry difficult to get n living there and eiery bodi body had to work hard I 1 received wor work in the fp futory tory my job was to hand threads to the girl who threaded tie harness in the loom I 1 corked A in the factory from six 0 clock in the morning till 9 0 clock at right you cant v anat hat a struggle for bead th people of norway had during those days at the factory I 1 was treated very ery kindly for about seven years when 1 I joined the church my former frienda friends in the factory turned batum gatum me and became my ca en elen e len I 1 left them tte following day r f found fd d work in another factory in those days clays when people were into the church tt it had to be done secretly one night my parents were vere baptized when they arrived home they asked me if ir X would like to be I 1 told them yes yos at 2 clock in tho the night I 1 was baptized to in the ocean it v as in the winter time and while hurrying home my clothes froze to me rae I 1 waa was sixteen bews ears old then I 1 stayed in the facy fac y working until I 1 became twenty year of ago when I 1 immigrated to utah MT VL preparation j for the journey to utah were vere very simple father y bought me a r rw w trunk in it I 1 placed a few simple pie pieces ce 3 of underwear der wear I 1 had but two dresses pad p nd one pair of shoes I 1 walked from a point net nerr r florence nebraska to salt lake city before I 1 had walked three hundred mu mus s my shoes were entirely conj I 1 offered to trade a drese foi a pair of shoes the lady to whon I 1 made this otter offer had leeral pairs of shoes left among tle belongings of her two titters sitters who had died on tae ray hue bue she refused my offer saying that she woud need the shoes later en cn from then on I 1 walked in n my stocking stockings each night I 1 mended them I 1 walked through the deep sand rd for miles and miles the cactus patches hurt my feet I 1 ate no supper the ent entire ire journey as there was none to be had hid for breakfast I 1 had a biscuit it and a cup of black coffe at noon I 1 had even less than this at night I 1 lay down on the sand rand with my bag under my head for a pillow I 1 had hild no quilt whatever Oon blauel next amb |
