| Show cecil e e billings glad 1 for news from home A letter was received in our offices this week from cecil billings who is in tn the IDS tahitian mission the message essa 1 s dot dated october 3 1952 g and nd ha has J just t reached us alter after traveling half way around the world he says s when I 1 came up from the e 1 lower ower archipelago Arche pelago islands I 1 received a nice bunch of vernal expresses not having had any mail of any kind for two months I 1 was surely glad to get them all the news I 1 had received up t to that time was the let ir from my friends and relatives la the paper tells me news nobody thinks about writing 1 11 I am n now 0 w at Hu huern one of 0 the largest pearl diving islands in the world there are about natives here diving for pearl shells f we have a nice race site size branch here we are here for or the october conference when the conference is over the other missionaries will leave and I 1 will be left alone with my new companion 1 11 I hope all is well at vernal |