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Show 'Oit Foreign Missions' Sydney Missionaries Assigned In UnUed States 4 Missionaries usually go from the United States to the foreign countries, hut this was Monday when four missionaries from Australia entered - tiia: mission tome.' They wilt serve missions In the United States. They are the flrst foreign missionaries to represent Syd-neStakecreated only a year Tago. , changed y The four, three men and one lady missionary, have already served the Church well, despite the fact that one of the group has beeri a member less than two' years. Two have filled' stake missions. John G, Nicholson and Kenneth J. Scott are both from New South Wollonganj, Wales. Elder Nicholson is the newest convert of the group. - his family are members. He credits the fine personality AH of of the missionaries as great S aid in bringing him into the Church. He hag been aiding the stake, missionaries in recent months. He will labor in the Northwestern States Mis -- sion. Elder Scott has served as Sunday School teacher, branch clerk, secretary and assistant superintendent In the YMMIA. He has also been playing basketball with, the, ward team. Elder Scott will go to the Southern States Mission. Ronald G. Westbrook , Elder is a convert of only three years from Sydney, and has been also serving as a stake mission- , - i.r- iaipiwMsrf Edwin C. Winder V.-- - J friMit Joseph A. Kjar . ary, He has been Deacons Quorum adviser. He and his sister are the only members of tiie family to join the Church but hopes that his missionary efforts will help bring others ' into the Church. He has been a silk screen printer, .He will labor in the Eastern States ' 'Mission. Miss Diane Ruth Blyde lived for 4 year and a half in Canada. Unlike the three young men who came to the mission home with her for their first trip to Salt Lake City, she has been to general conference and other occasions at Church headquarters four times. She has been active in the YWMIA, and will labor in the Califor-- . nia Mission. , , All are eager to embark on their missionary activities. r ,'i , . -- -- i LDS " members in Europe ready To build chapels ' Members of the Church in Europe are receiving calls with enthusiasm ' to start construction of chapels in their various countries. Thi; word was brought back by Elder Wendell .B. Mendenhall, chairman of the Church .Building Committee, following a, month's visit over seas, his fourth European trip in the past eight months. "The labor missionary work is shaping up very good, Eider Mendenhall said. "Local members are being prepared in England, Germany, the four Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Austria, France and Holland. The spirit of the people is wonderful. They are most cooperative and anxious to go to work. Eider Mendenhall said work has already started on an addition to the Manchester Chapel. A stake house will be started there sometime'Th 'May.Xither chapels will be started in June and continue onward as soon as plans and specifications can be completed in Europe and Britain. Construction areas have now been1 set up in Epeemf Big land; Amsterdam, Holland, and Frankfurt, Germany, undo: . the direction of the Church Bulikling Committee labor-missionar- staff. For the 'first five years of construction buildings in Europe will be erected on an percentage plan with mem-80-2- 0 4 CHURCH hers furnishing 20 per cent of costs in both stakes and missions, Elder Mendenhall said. After the first five years, it is expected Church financing will assume a standard rate. Elder George R. Biesinger, who will be in charge of European construction for the Church Building Committee, returned to Sait Lake City With Elder Mendenhall to move his family to England April conference. after 'PROMISED iv Three Salt Lake Valley residents and an Ogden man this week were appointed to the YMMIA General Board, announced General Superintendent Joseph T. Bentley. They are Edwin C (Ned) Winder, finance chairman of the Granger Second Ward, North Jordan Stake, where his brother, Richard W. Winder, is bishop; Joseph A. Kjar, second counselor in the Centerville Fourth Ward bishopric of Davis Stake; Rulon IL Bradshaw, member of the Grant Stake High Council, and David Jay Wilson, recently released from the East Ogden Stake High Council. Winder fulfilled his . , Elder mission in the Southern States. During World War H he was acting chaplain aboard the destroyed USS "Hadley and also served as group leader aboard other ships. At the time Of his . VALLEY' WORKSHOP SET The MIA General Boards Music Committee reports more than 1,500 reservations from 200 stakes have been made fof the Promised Valley workshop to be held Friday, April 7 in the Highlarid-ParleyStake Center. Reservations h'ave been received from Indiana, New Jersey, Shreveport, La., Vancouver, Wash., McGrath, Can, New Zealand, and along the Pacific Coast from Seattle to San Diego, plus the Intermountain area. AH MIA executives, drama, m usic and dance directors are invited to the workshop, which will precede the local later this summer. preparations to rehearse the Two performances of the simplified version will be presented, one at noon for those attending the workshop, the second at 8 p.m. (for which (here will be a 50 cent charge) for family, friends and cast plus local MIA leaders unable id attend the eMlier prentUHic Composer Crawford Gates wiH be in charge of the music aided by Lorraine Bowman, Anne Bennion; Virginia IL McDonald, the dance; Keith M. Engar, and Elsie Alder, drama; L. Clair Likes and LeRoy Morr, lights; Loma Tay-leIrene Staples, costumes, scenery; George L Cannon, production chairman; Ruth H. Funk, assistant; Maxine s music-dram- . ' a r, Thomason, publicity. Week Ending April 1, 1961 u n ua David Jay Wilson Rulon H. Bradshaw named i ' . . . Four to YMMIA board board adds four to roster yMmia il fo represent Sydney Stake as missionaries, from Ronald C. Westbrook, Diane Ruth Blyde, Ken- left, L . netb J, Scott, John G. Nicholson. First L-- , , new appointment he was alto ric and later for fou.r- years as one of the presidents of the bishop of Hillcrest Ward, Grant Stake. He has also served in Fourteenth Quorum of SevGrant Stake MIA superinenty, a Cub Master, editorof the ward paper, and guide on tendency. He is owner and manager of Temple Square. Akron Lumber, president of served as he Previously the Salt Take Lumbermans YMMIA stake activity counseClub and Sugar House Rotary lor, ward MIA superintendent, Club and a director of the take senior Aaronic commitSugar House Chamber of Comteeman, and athletic director merce. for ward and stake plus coach Elder Bradshaw also holds for softbaH and basketbaU the Master M Man pin. He marteams. ried Marie Flachman of Salt -- He recently -- was renamed Lake City- - They have four chairman of the Utah Athletic sons and daughters and 10 Commission. He is also a memHe is a gradgrandchildren. r ber of the Granger-Hunteuate of the University of WyoCommunity CounciL ming. Elder Winder married Gwen Elder Wilson is a native of Layton of Salt Lake City. . Ogden. They have six' children He is Receiving his BJ3. degree also a Master M Man and memfrom Brigham Young Univerber of the Great Sait Lake sity, he attended CorneU UniCouncil, BSA, a partner In the versity for his L.L.B. degree. Winder Dairy and the VaUey He is a graduate of Ogden View Memorial Park and this SchooL High j years Sait Lake Area United While serving in the BritFund chairman. ish Mission during 1939, Elder Elder Kjar is general manWilson was reassigned to the Station KSL ager of Radio Western States Mission when where he began as an an- . war broke out in' Europe. Renounced in 1946. He is a memcently released from the high ber of the Exchange Club and council of the .East Ogden attended the University of Stake, he is a former bishop Utah. of the East Ogden 33rd Ward. He married Noma Roberts of He has also served as Salt Lake City and they have of the Sunday School four sons and daughters. and the YMMIA in the Mt Og- Elder Kjar also served in den 24th Ward. - -- - super-intende- he was a district president Later while residing in the, mission he was Sunday School superintendent of the Charleston Branch, South Carolina, He served two years as Park Stake MIA trrwVnt rn tho TlilluHe Stake, he fulfilled a stake mission and served 'in, the EdgehiU Ward bishopric followed with service as the priests quorum advisor prior to moving to Centerville. Elder Bradshaw previously . served on the Granite' Stake High CounciL In the Lincoln and Columbus Wards of that stake be served in the bishop nt former Blanche Petersen qf Salt Lake City in 1944. They have six children. Pres. Boyer to Speak At Mission Reunion Selvoy J. Boyer, president of the London Temple, will be the speaker at a reunion of uissionaries who served under him when he presided over the British Mission. The reunion will be held in the Eighteenth Ward chapel, 101 A Street, Friday, April 7 at 9 p.m., announces Charles B. Sainsbury, chairman. ' . - |
