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Show LADY MISSIONARY iS ENJOYING WORK Dear Brother and Sister Wallis: I wish to thank you for the nice season sea-son greetings you sent me. It is encouraging en-couraging to be remembered by the home folks. Though we missionaries missionar-ies are kept busy doing our work, we like to hear from the people back home and learn what they are doing. I also want to take this opportunity opportun-ity to express my appreciation for the Washington County News. Every week I look forward to the day when it arrives and I again get in touch with the doings of southern Utah. 'e learn of things that are being done there that we could never learn by letters. I often think that if the people there at home realized how we who are thousands of miles from home enjoyed reading the home newspaper, they would make a great-ter great-ter effort to see that the editor was informed of all happenings of interest. inter-est. It is surely disappointing to open up a newspaper and look for one's home town correspondence and find that there is none. The people here are very nice, but also quite different from the people at home. Minneapolis has been called cal-led the "Little Sweden," there are so many Swedish people here. Last summer when the Crown Prince of Sweden was. here, he spoke to a gathering gath-ering of the Swedish people. He told them that that was the largest assembly of Swedes he had ever seen. Minneapolis is a city of about one hundred and eighty thousand. Of that number the majority are Scandinavians. Scand-inavians. It is almost as common to hear Swedish or Norwegian spoken on the streets and in the homes of the people as it is to hear English. It is not unusual to meet people who can neither speak nor understand the English language, , By faith, the people are principally princip-ally Lutherians and Catholic. As a rule we find them quite friendly and ready to discuss the gospel with us. We have a growing branch of the Church here. At present there are nearly three hundred members. Minnesota is a beautiful state. It boasts of having about one thousand lakes. It is- also interesting as the setting of Longfellow's Hiawatha poems. However, I don't like it half so well as I do our own southern Utah. This is a nice place to do mis-. mis-. sionary work, but it can't compare, in my opinion, to the West. I love the mountains, and here there are none to be seen. I am enjoying my mission very much. I am surely thankful to my Heavenly Father for the privilege. He has given me to come into the world and teach the gospel of His Son. It has helped me so much to appreciate the gospel. .Accept my best wishes for your success and happiness in the New Year. Your Sister in the Gospel, Marva Crawford. 3044 Elliot Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. |