Show MAKING GOOD PROGRESS MUSIC carter co ky april 21 1896 your most moat excellent paper has been coming to us regularly and Js ie hailed with delight by both salute and friends it if you will pardon our presumption we will submit to you an account of out our travels and labors since we ome came from west virginia into kentucky elder william D elder eider and myself having beep appointed to ib r to fether aether in carter county arrived in grayson the county sent sear on dec 41 4 1895 and went to the municipal authorities and received their consent to can vesa tile the town since then we have been canvassing and bolding many meetings among the good people ol of carter county we have received excellent treatment and have been acco accorded raed many opportunities to 0 o preach the gospel to the people which we have gladly accepted we have spent a great deal of our time revisiting friends and teaching them the gospel around tho the fireside and have botke imich good in this way we have also dune dona vouch much good in sell seli ing loaning aud an 1 l civo among the khe people the voice or oi r warning graga pratts works and boos BOOK tit of mormon oa march 1896 we wen tinto nto elliott county and met mast elbery S J 1 I tolman aud I 1 H langston who were laboring in that county also elder eider wm win E Bydal cb president preel dent of the went virginia conference and his ble companion oom panion M spier we attended several of their meet meetings inize and on that day marob march 15 lackey branham W wag baptized by elder tolman on the morning of the we went into carter being accompanied by eiders and langston elder spiers remaining in elliott inEl llott with rider elder tolman in carter we hold held twenty three meetings in ton ten days at muck we had bad an average attendance of four hundred and fifty people on sunday the and all seemed to be well pan for coming out to hour bear our worthy president preside portray the principles principle of the golbek between the afternoon alter noon and evening eve services service we baptized louis may logue hyrum dyer TA dyer and william rice all honest hogt seekers after truth others had sw plied piled for baptism but were not ready 0 1 that bat time many honest bonesi people 44 carter are investigating the he we are advocating wes we have maey friends of whom we might make bm arable mention as M tor for instance ar R judge smith St stephen eption clark elijah adamis and numerous othera but saw will not permit us to name them we went into Green greenup tip county W wull our president and met elders eldera gap T taylor and T E kipa aad 0 held bold twenty meetings while we WOR with them and elder taylor baptized baptised sed william messer into the while to io greenup Oreen iree tip county eldr Cluff and woodruff came over ftc boyd county and elder eider eider woodruff into lipnis county ulder elder returning into boyd county with elder eider C juff we returned to carter where al 00 friends friend were anxiously awalt aw aitio inix for the prospects lor for doing good are oxe excellent to in elliott carter and abd greo counties also in the adjoining chao ties A all the elders are working ditl finx vim and doing all the good they con can at the conference conie rence in mercer cc on november 10 1895 elder eider ki promised us if we would be bumble bumb zunli hold five times as many I 1 ds 88 we bad been holding and odi I 1 think that promise has been verified 4 we believe we have the right MR majl at the head or of our conference and biff f feel to obey hie bis counsel he is an energetic young man and takes the me lead and bid us as follow him CHARLES WM D |