Show I OUR PIONEERS AUTO AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE GEORGI A S St From Fr From i Last Last C St Week Emery Stake Including nil all of Emery and Carbon counties was named as my field of labor Most of the Church officers ww sere en- en engaged engaged en-C en in business or held some civIc position so 0 I had to hold my meetings at night It was at ata ata ata a loss to know what to do wIth my time during the day as we had bad been Instructed not to work among the members I did con con- considerable considerable con considerable reading writing letter letter and preparing talks but still tul time was as an burden upon my hands bands When I r started taking long walks I discovered that the coun coun- coun- coun country country I try was as a acry very cry beautiful one The next net great day In my life a few years after I re- re returned returned re returned turned from my mission In Emery stake It was In the spring of at the year ear and we w were wert driving a n few cattle to Green Oreen river about nIne mites south couth of Jensen Intending to leM leave e them there a month or orso orso so 10 At a point where the trail dropped suddenly down toward the river I r stopped short There be- be before before fore men lay in untouched grand grand- eur cur the ranch of my dreams Par Par- Paral Paralyzed Paralyzed al zed with sith sheer ecstasy I gazed down n upon acres and ac aches s of beautiful sagebrush flat Jat sloping gradually to the tree lined banks of the river Of course the sage sage- brush sagebrush sage was not beautiful But Dut It was as the vision there Already ady the place was mine and the rich red soil soU was turning under the plow In later sears vears ears when hen we e had bunt built builta bunta a road over dr d r that same trail and my wife tre and I sat looking down rover over 0 er our ranch home ours vv wis as the perfect happiness of two to who had worked together to make a a dream come ome true The Tte soil and r responded I beyond m mi my wildest hopes al nil all the crops v a were ere vigorous and abundant I ant nt Under my wife s loving care one of the most moot beautiful flower gardens I have ever Slen s en provided provid- provid ed d bouquets for lor every ery visitor At first I had tried pumping Irrigation water from the river witha with n a a ater v ater a wheel eel teel This proved unsatisfactory unsatisfactory so I had gone In debt for Sor or a four thousand dollar doUar steam threshing outfit in order to get the engine to pump with I in- in intended in intended tended to do custom thre threshing to topas pas a for tor It The machinery was as already at Dragon Dracon and I was making preparations preparations preparations to go get it when I rECel received received ed a letter asking me to fill fm a year two mission to the Southern States I confess it came as a thunderbolt out of a clear sky NinE sears ears had pa passed Sed since I had returned from my mv mission In Emery we now had seven 11 using living Ing chil- chil children children chil children dren the tho oldest fifteen Realizing that my wife would be bethe bethe bethe the one to bear the brunt of the immense responsibility If I should leave lea the first thing thine I did as aas to ask her what she he thought about It But I should have known The opportunity might never neer come again she said and she had faith that God would provide the way a s To be continued |