Show OUR PIONEERS 1 I AUrO OF GIORGE A I Continued scant Fron Fr Last Weeks Week I was vas sWI still in my m teens when t the BIshopric asked aked me If I would fm fill filla filla n a mission t to the States I expressed e my I willingness but did not know kno how hov my m parents could manage as they were ere dependent upon me De- De Delighted De Delighted lighted with the honor of retch retch- receiving ing jag so great a calling I hurried home hOUle to hear what hat my parents thought of It t Believing as they did that mv my rn calling In the Church should be filled without question they Insisted that I go I notified the Bishop and tot sit about making preparations preparation I had been has log ing wonderful success with my m ClOPS chops and I began selling whatever hate would auld bring cash ash ash E Do Even en non Mormons bought from me produce they the did not need just to help me out But Buthen when hen mi my m name went ent up to the Stake Presidency they said No It is not right to send him and andIN IN lease e those old people without his help Of course theirs was the wiser view slew ie but I was aas as woefully dis- dis disappointed dis disappointed appointed Since my m mv coming to Ashley Ashle Val Val-lev Val Val- Valle Valley le ley I had of ot course no chance to togO togo togo gO to school I learned a n great deal dealIn dealin dealIn In the church auxiliaries ries and aiso abo took advantage of a 0 night school organized by John Glenn Olenn a school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher who 11 used lived ed In our ward I also put In t two 0 winters studying I In the evenings e at home In this manner I took a correspondence course with the Agricultural Col- Col College College Col College lege of Madison Wisconsin and passed one hundred per cent In the final exam eCIm I recessed received r ed a 0 diploma for horticulture which Included fruit gro grossing ing market gardening and land cape gardening Whenever r mv m crop wasso as so I could leave lease It I was as busy with my team and wagon hauling tImber from the mountains freight from Price cordwood to Ft Duchesne or an anything ani thing else I could find to doOne doOne do doOne One day dav da in early October I was in Vernal Venial at the blacksmith shop getting mv my horses shod planning to INn leave lease e the t net morning for a load load of freight from Price R S SCollett SCollett SCollett Collett walled walked lIked In He was a stal- stal stalwart stal stalwart wart tion Rrt ample example of or ph physical perfection pel fec- fec tion stood several eral inches e aboe the six-foot six mark and tipped Upped the scales at two hundred and and- forty pounds We e all stopped to listen hene er he c spoke Joke He had just returned from a mission to Eng Eng- gland Eng gland was as a fine orator and first counselor to the Stake President PresidentE E one admired R S Collett George he said why by arent aren't you Oll preparing to go to school to- to toda today to-dav to da day instead of at preparing to go on the road Me-go Me Me go to school I said I I m too old We are starting a Church school for fer just such young oung men as you ou he continued We have secured the sen services Ices of Henry Peterson from the B Y U to teach and we e are starting in the old Workman buildIng lag ing just below here until we sae car can secure something more suitable You are one whole who we sae expected s be anxious to take advantage of othis this opportunity I cannot describe mv my feeling pc as ashe she he walked stalked out of or the shop I had I hadI so wanted canted anted further education but butI butI buI I thought of how I had worked winter inter and summer almost every everyday everyday ever day except Sunday To go to school one would almost have base to be a 11 gentleman of leisure All afternoon I could not shake the thought from fromme fromme me Perhaps If I got up a couple ot of hours earlier every morning morning- Suddenly I dropped the horse horses s hoof I had been working on and headed for the schoolroom just a ai i short distance away Overalls dust grease and all aU I entered Luckily there were not many to see me me- me I just sixteen that first quarter and andR andR I IR R S Collett was one of or them Af- Af After I Ai-I Af After ter one long discouraged look loot the teacher ventured Did you want scant v ant something Iam I Iam Iam thing am sure he thought I needed some some- some some-I something something Yes I said I I want scant ant to go to school What grade do you ou want cant to sign up for tor I don t know l I wa was In the fifth reader when I last attended any school schoel I faltered I l How How long has that been Hel He was puzzled as the lowest lovest grade he heas was as to teach was the seventh se Well I was fourteen then and andI I andi I m one t tent enty ent one now What subjects do you want to sign up for came the next irn im I possible question I I don t know brow You see I il I was thankful that nobody tit- tit tittered I II I To be C continued n d I |