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Show MISSIONARY WRITES Dear Editor:--Just a few lines tc thank you for sending me the home paper. I surely look forward to receiving re-ceiving the home paper each week A person doesn't really appreciate ii until he gets away from home about seven thousand miles. I read all the advertisements over each week ,af well as the rest of the news. Now to ray a little about the country coun-try which I have been living in for almost two years. I had' been told by several before I left that this little island was like a garden and I will agree wih them for it is surely a beautiful place, but it lacks the Rocky Mountains. It doesn't matter which way a person looks it all looks like a large park, the rolling hills are either covered with grass, heather, or woods and all the trees have 'moss growing on the limbs. Moss even grows on the .roofs of the houses. The first ten months of my mission were spent in the southwestern part of England in Dovenshire. Cornwall and Sommerset counties. My companion com-panion and I have spent two months out in the country on bycicles and we found that much more interesting than the work in the cities. We met people who had never heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before and we were able to sell them many books as well as have very interesting conversations. The part I ain in now is very smoky as there are so many coal mines and factories in operation and it seems that the people are not very much interested in-terested in religion, the converts are few and far between. I have had the privilege of going to London two different times, once in Sept, 1925 for one week while the British Exhibition at Wembley was open and again last June, for two weeks and I was busy every day seeing see-ing some of the old historic buildings and other important places. We have some very interesting experiences ex-periences over here sometimes, such as having doors shut in our faces, tracts torn up and thrown at us as well as being called anything but a gentleman. A person gets used to all these things after he has been over here a year or two and we look forward for-ward to a nice little argument to make the work interesting. I think as a rule the people at home do not appreciate the fact that they belong to the true Church of Christ is much as they should. I know before I came on a mission I didn't think very much about it, and I suppose the main reason I . belonged to the Church was because my parents par-ents did, but since I have investigated ohers and have had to defend the truth which I am here to represent I am surely more than thankful that I am a so called Mormon. As a whole I have enjoyed my work, but am looking forward to getting get-ting back to the land of room enough. Wishing you success and happiness happi-ness and thanking you very much for sending me the paper, I remain, Sincerely, Sin-cerely, Howard Judd, 9 Ashgrove, Bradford, England. |