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Show n Avarua Brandt introduce friends to LDS activities missionary class RAROTONGA, ' Approximately COOK IS- The desire to , tell "V -o- thereabout-tbe-Gospd-jseoB- tageous. - ri Wiiford Stake youths organizes LANDS tr-cvr-- iTa 100 Salt Lake City area youths were introduced to the Church earlier this month !Spec-.- .. Jn a Wiiford tacular. 1 Stake-Yout- Young people in the Avarua 1 Branch in the Rarotonga Mia- sion, Cook Islands, 3,000 milea south of Hawaii, discovered this twhen they started holding a mis- . Senary class.- - ' ' There are 48 young 'people in ' the class, 12 of - themconverte and 10 investigators .because their Mends asked them The Golden Questions" and discov- ered they wanted to know more - about theChurch. . , Similar success of .this youth missionary program is reported from other branches throughout . -this migginn , were . The youth Wiiford of Stake young guests people wh? took them to the Bonwood Bowl and White Park . 'for, bowling, swimming, volley-- a ball, touch football, tennis, capped by a dinner and movie at ' . the Wiiford Stake. Center. Approximately 250 persons at- " , tended the affair, according to jt, MemBers and their young friends hold missionary' Merrill Ridd, High Councilman assigned to the event It was meeting in Avdrua Bra nchr; Rarotonga Mission. Capt. Don C. Wood under the direction of Wiiford .? esldlRt A. Stake missionary,, flight W. "Mickey Hart, with first 'two-da- y Convention which made'"' in the presentation of small counselor Horace Gardner corockets bearing the convention Wstory in the Andes Mission as Mormon Air Force favors. as ordinating fiie activities. table slogan given the first mission-wid- e convention The entire pro jectwas held in n of Mutual Improvement pilot flies non-sfo- p conjunction with ward Aarpnic . officers. Priesthood programs. Missionary Garvanza 41 years old for unofficial record Bishops from all of the eight MIA holds first Delegates came from all parts coStake Wiiford wards in of Peru to study and formulate YAKIMA, WASHINGTON LOS ANGELES. Garvanza operated in the project MIA to the mission convention program Capt. Don C. Wood of Yakima planfor Other such events will be held Ward recently, celebrated its . . e star halfback at land be used in the mission during 41st anniversary. Ward members during the summer to acquaint the BYU was one of six Air file coming months. The conand former members held A picLIMA, PERU "Fly witb file youth with the Church, accordFence pilots who flew their Re--x nic at Arroyo Seco Park. vention theme was carried out MIA - was the theme of the ing to Elder Ridd. - ( ' public Thunderchiefs from M x x" Guam to Ngw Zealand for an mu official Nonstop distance rec-- . '' ord of 4,422 miles. It took fiie 5 supersonic U.S. fighter - bomber squadron seven hours and 45 minutes to FROM THE CHURCH fly the long haul, according to By Henry A. Smith word from the Pacific Air Force headquarters at Hickman Air Force Base in Hawaii, state second The BYU graduate interrupted the in from in in. seven and placed Vaughn ranging age girls, team) A coincidence his. collegiate career to fill a 1 33 to nine years old. and was file seminary president wrestling two-yemission for the Church It ig quite 'a coincidence that of the 22 thisjyear.X Each child has first of all a love et in Holland and Belgium. HO Went missionaries serving in the Rarotonga MisNeQ was another state champion fids as indiChe gospel and ( fellow-me- n, through college on a football sion that two of them should be compansons who are the cated three serving by X". year and helps with the farm chores, scholarship. ions who were playmates when they were missions new. Neoman b on a mission in .The twins, Pat and Pam, ring and dance .Flying planes has been a part youngsters. New Sonth Wales, Australia ; linden b of Capt Woods life since he for many church 'and" dvic organizations ! One b Michael Joha Fnrness, so was 16 when he received a prisupervising elder hi the Great Lake Misaqd are busy with MIA work. Indiana and Kent, who vate flying license. sion working Ephraim and Irene Formes of Salt Lake Vanat mission Elizabeth;' just nine, tries to not be outentered the The record breaking flight left City. The ether b George Watson, so of b field, just Anderson Air Force Base at Mr. and Mrs. Gene Watsoa of Renton, done by older brothers and sisters and is couver, British Columbia .XV Wash. trying to ' memorize scriptures for - her X Guam and terminated at Okahea Of the six oldest children who are mat- s' ..X Air Station, Primary. When' Michael was but a year old his ried each chose to be married in the temple. land.' One might wonder how a man with Twelve children have mow graduated front s parents went to San Diego where the father B. Simler, comGeorge Capt. -was in fiie military service during World such a large family could possibly afford seminary. mander of the '18th Tactical to send sons oa missions and to college War H. Georges parents were then resi- -' Sheldon was in the Bishopric in Shoshone, Wing, led the Flight dents of San Diego. The Furness roomed but in this family it does not seem to be Idaho, He received his B.S. from USU and which the Air Force called a Saint couple, Mr. aqd with a Latter-da- y his M.S. from BYU and is a boys coun-Mr- s. much of a problem because all are anx-real milestone in aviation hisJames Newman, who were the grand-seio-r to work and help one another. As at Mt, Ogden JrxHigh. He Is father tory. They refueled twice dur- of fhree chiIdrenXXX'X:?r Robert said, When I was on my mission r- fog the flight. parents of George WatsonOftett fiie two- year-old- s each month I received half of Raymonds " Previous unit' played together in the home. Marilyn (Mrs. Femerd Woods) gradu- Each missionary wrote to his parents a ted from two years at College of Southern X Army paycheck. Then, when my mission flights of record include one of about his newcompanion, and it was not was ended I was called in the Amy and 3,612 miles in eight hours, 50 Utah where she had fiie lead role inulhe minutes from North Carolina to long before they, knew that they had been opera She Is- - now Relief Society president s, Raymond was called o a mission, so I childhood playmates; sent half my paycheck to him. Guess I f Spain in 1963. , vj. Taft, CaliL, and mother of three' ' X'-- " yK. could say I paid for my own mission, but stuwas Capt. ..Wood and his wife, of a USU, Raymond, graduate " A British dent-bod- y Pd rather say my brother helped me. Marilyn, have four children. president of Delta High, filled a South-Wenow remi- President Nathan Eldon Tanner, second Indianmisslon an It Street treatto hear ttiis family sing Hved f an s?00? in Okla. counselor in the First Preridency, has a ? many beautiful volets ' years. Both are active in the. ' Itish namesake. He received a letter renoma and has two chuaren. in close harmony. If is also a joy to see all Okinawa branch. Robert is also a. former missionary of cently from Neil McEwen of Netherton, them play together such as in baseball He reported that the people the Gulf States. He has had ,three year of England, telling of the new son born to their where the young get more than three strikes in New Zealand treated the 17 who named and two. is the of was on to after father be college family May , before they are out (although they seldom fliers royally. They could not , Chloeen (Mrs. Marie Bybee) received President Tanner. The father told of his need it) and. older ones have to hit the ball spend any of their money. The the Womanhood Award at CSU in her appreciation of President Tanner who had within a certain boundary or they are . government even furnished ' two years there and she and her husband r assisted him in organizing his business and Out Capt Wood a car and driver are now dorm parents while he is complet- who had ordained him a high priest and Since this Is a family that has played . to take him to church in New set him apart as a high counselor, ing schooL They have one child. and stayed together, you also know they Zealand. Katherine (Mrs. Martiir Wistensen) is Elder McEwan also wrote.: have always prayed together.- - Their lovely - graduate from BYU and lives in Chicago . Church Callister, Ms Yllhfl VQlitfl ritprl Whi looking through a book we have v where her husband has jurt received, his ,UD? PUTn a prfmijy and MIA president and meaning of name it stated .that jj g degree in accounting. They have two secretary of fiie Relief Society and never soldier of month Nathan was Hebrew for a gift' and so . children. too busy with her to work in the it is even more significant to ns now. u YUBA CITY, CALIF. Mr. a wonder to all that she keeps her youth, and Mrs. Harry EL dark of fiie An missionaries. . The father is a former Yuba City Second Ward, Grid-le- y Bishop of the Delta Under the title, "Hows This For A Nemnan, Lindon and Kent 3rd Ward and now a high councilor in Stake, recently received Record," Dorothy Teichert of Cokeville, Jerry Just graduated from Delta High Deseret stek" word find their son, Dick, had ' of us follows: a as Utah where writes he received An fiie Around Athlete Wyo., family To know this family Is to know the been selected as soldier of the - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lathd CaQister : Award. He is a state champion wrestler of true living of the GospeL " month. in fiie Class B division and plans to at of Delta, Utah, are the proud arents of 16 children, nine boys (their own basebaQ tend CSU in fiie fall. Week Ending June 13, 1964 s, f x tw 4 k x r ,r.record - Asso-catio- one-tim- ' z - EDITOR'SDESK r X x X b ar '''t'y''' -- ' x' ' -- ' xX xL-- zX tlighf -- long-distan- ' namesake st atawa rx x' x Mgt sr unusual family JSE? f ' as UST dters - x i 'K 4 fo?E |