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Show 1 Phcrtos by Susan WxxKvtyd Sacks of wheat, containers are stacked outside Conaga Park Stake Center. STUDENTS WHEAT PROJECT Cheryl Adleson helps empty large sacks of wheat into smaller storage containers. Harvest of Service ly stacked on the building patio, By NANCY T. WUDEL, Church News Correspondent CANOGA PARK, CALIF, Fifty young California church members got an inkling of what Put your shoulder to the wheel really means recently when they unloaded and distributed 21 tons of wheat that had been ordered for home storage by members and Los The students from Angeles Pierce College, many of whom are enrolled in the Wood land Hills Institute of Religion, took as their goal helping local families store food. They contacted Vaughn Paxman, a seminary principal and farmer in Nephi, Utah, who agreed to deliver all the wheat they would order to Canoga Park. The service project snowballed! Before the students knew it, they had orders for some full 63 semi-truc- k tons of wheat loads. three After investigating storage methods, organizing crews, and advertising the project, the students waited for delivery of the first shipment. The day it arrived at the Canoga Park Stake Center was a race with the storm clouds. Just as the sacks of wheat were neat the rain began. We knew the first thing to do was to stop and pray, said Craig McPhie, freshman from Chatsworth, Calif. We all knelt together in the empty delivery van and asked what we should do. Thats when the workday turned into a testimony-buildinexperience. As we finished the prayer, the rain completely stopped long enough for us to cover the sacks g with tarps and form a bucket brigade to move it all inside. The students passed the wheat inside, where they did the heavy work of pouring it into 1,260 empty containers. Then the containers wrere loaded into pickup trucks for distribution. Rain soaked the students as they worked outside. Ive never been so wet and worked so hard in my life! laughed sophomore Meli Estrada. And Ive never seen so many kids having so much fun together! Korean Branch Built on Family Foundation CHONG JU, S. KOREA Missionaries who opened Chong Ju, South Korea for missionary work wanted to build a branch on a foundation of whole families. With prayer and hard work, they have succeeded even beyond their own expectations. When the church was introduced to this city of 100,000 in May 1972, one member was known to be living there. It was decided to open the city for missionary work with an exhibit May 18. As people toured the exhibit, missionaries told them of Christs church in ancient times and the restoration of the gospel. On May 20, the city was blessed and dedicated for the preaching of the gospel, and on June 4, the first meeting was held in a small room in the home rented by the missionaries. Eighteen people were there. During their first few weeks in Chong Jn, the missionaries were busy looking up referrals from the exhibit, one of these was Poong Yong who on Aug. 8 became the first person to be baptized in Chong Ju. One month later, his wife was baptized; they were the beginning of the missionaries dream to find families to bring into the branch. Elder Lee, who had been impressed by the churchs emphasis on family, priesthood and the individuality of the Godhead, 10 - priesthood and was soon made first counselor in the branch presidency. He also introduced the missionaries to two other families who were later baptized. Furthermore, the elders discovered that as they continued to seek out families, the way was opened for them. In front of the house where they lived was a small variety store. On." day, as Elder Larry Clarkson and his companion. Elder Scott Bleak were leaving the presidency, and recently was called to be branch president. And so it goes. As the missionaries in Chong Ju have sought families, they have found them. At one baptismal service Elder Nam baptized his four children two men baptized their wives, one baptized his wife, son and younger sister one baptized his two children, and a mother and her daughter were also Teens See for Blind Idaho Readers CLARKSTON, WASH. Some of Idahos blind are seeing" through the eyes of others, thanks to the efforts of young people in Clarkstori Ward, just across the state line in Washington. The project began a year and a half ago, when Mickey Corlis, Laurel teacher in the Clarkston Ward, received a brochure from the nearby YWCA. At the bottom was a note mentioning a need for recorded tapes for the blind. Curious, she contacted the WCA, attended a meeting on the subject, and realized the recording would be a good service project for the Laurels and. Explorers. With the permission of Bishop received Mclchizedck the ' WEEK ENDING MAY 26, 1973 - CHURCH store, Elder Clarkson was impressed to ask the owner if he would like to hear about the church. Surprisingly, he said he would not only like to hear about the church, but would also like his family to be taught. Not long after that, the missionaries were able to baptize the man, Ki Hwan Nam, and his family. Elder Nam received the Melchizedek priesthood, w'as made second counselor in the branch Rex W. Johns, they went ahead with the project. In December of 1971, seven young people and their advisers attended their first lesson in recording for the blind. They were eager to start, but the Idaho Commission for the Blind had no work for them to do. Then, in March 1972, there suddenly was a book to be recorded. It was Supervision in Teaching, one of the churchs teacher development books! Elizabeth Peterson and Eldy Schultz recorded it. There was another, longer gap. and the young people kept wanting to know if there was something to record. In Janu ary 1973, the Commission for the Blind called to ask if the LDS youth could record a magazine, True Treasure. The group, which has now grown to include the Mia Maids and Venturers is presently working on recording each issue as it is received. Karen Bryce, Jody Keiper, Ron Ilymas, Randy Reese Randy Peterson and Paul Horn are doing the reading. But the group is going farther in their sei vice to the blind. Some of them are developing eyes in their fingers by taking 3 cGuise in Braille. When they are thiough they should be fully equipped to help those whose mortal eves are shut but who long for spiritual leading matter |