| Show CHURCH historical RECORDS the following letter dated archive brasse 20 20 Bern Switzerland january nth 1897 has been received b by y church hia torian franklin D richards by whose whom courtesy it is given for publication dear brother since I 1 last wrote you irom from under date ot of september lath 1896 1 have visited all the conferences feren ces iu in the scandinavian mission and have finished my work in sweden and denmark but not in norway where time only permitted me to make a start stam I 1 deemed it best to attend some of the conference meetings in other parts of the a cission Pis mission sion and this necessitated my leaving 9 too soon to attend to all my labors in norway nor were the books lathered Ka ta together so that I 1 could have perused them there I 1 have halve gathered together from six conferences feren ces in the scandinavian mission bout old records which are not needed any almy more in the mission but wech are of great historical value areat some socha of these f found in unsafe hands and in very unsafe places so I 1 considered it best to send them to headquarters I 1 puked packed them in four good sized boxes left them in copenhagen open ag to be sent home by an emigrant company compan yin in charge of returning elders in the spring I 1 found the scandinavian mission re cords well kept as a rule and pretty however are lost and complete ate some doubt have been would no gia many more future had I 1 not come st in the near aft to aade them X bagen D enmark denmark for the reft cc copenhagen en S swiss WW and ferma german n mission on december stand and on my way to bern S switzer ted the headquarters of said mission I 1 the branches of the church in KM hamburg hanover berlin leip 9 dresden nure nuremberg aberg munich where I 1 attended an in dinteman Win teMan te restine conference together with elders from zion on t ven entyS tyone ne other zurich schaffhausen christmas day biml Lan enair at these different places 0 tooled f py ad pleasant associations with the of whom are wass from zion many and nearly all of them are YOU young men first missions 1 I 1 arrived at berri bern on the last day of the iott 1806 since then I 1 have been busily at the inis mission sion office here ald historical labors I 1 find to my id this mission good and complete re work from the be cords of ordinance gion gennine ift but minute books are lacking and conferences in nicest of the branches on 3rd ard 1897 elder george E january january over the swiss had presided naerie Is who a and german mission assion for nearly three yeara yrsa left for home accompanied by Ms wife wife and child H he e leaves a fine record behind elder peter loutensock beshoo of the eureka ward juab county succeeds him I 1 in i n the presidency of the mission which is in a progressive and prosperous I 1 expect to condition finish up my labors here in another couple of weeks during which I 1 intend tend to make a visit to the branches in and geneva then I 1 n bid lausanne leave 9 for rotterdam the headquarters of the netherlands mission for which point I 1 have secured tickets already via basel strasburg stuttgart Mon heam frankfort on the main etc from li holland olland I 1 go to england to A finish up my labors in in the british t mission minion then after another visit to norway to finish my labors there I 1 I 1 shall be permitted to return home once more please remember me to the ac presidency to the members of your own on quorum and to your associates at the kli historians storian a office your brother and co laborer ANDREW JENSON |
