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Show MISSIONARY LETTER Copenhagen, Denmark. Dear Mr. Editor: Nearly fourteen months have elasped since I wrote you last, and many changes have taken place since in the mission field in this land where three of your citizens are laboring as missionaries mission-aries which perhaps can be of interest for you and your many readers of your valuable paper to know a little about, as all our people as a rule are interested in missionary labor. I have had the privilege of laboring in my native city where 1 was born, for about twenty months, and a good work has been done by the elders who have labored faithfully in connection with me, as we had the privilege of leading more into the water of babptism in 1911 than has been done for many years in spite of all the slanders that a Mr. Hans Peter Frecce and Pastor Thoresen with the aid of the news-papers published against Utah and its people, so Ihe Lord blessed our eirorts and labor for which we give ,,,, MHMM -- ,n i ii Him the honor and glory asHis servants can do nothing without His aid. doln the month of July, last summer, I had the privilege of visiting the midnight mid-night sun in the far north of Norway, a ti-ip that I shall always remember as it was of great interest to travel for several days along the west coast of Norway and see the scenery by sailing among the high mountains where many of them on the top were covered with the beautiful snow, .and it took us a-bout a-bout six days and nights to sail from Bergen to Hammerfest, the most northern north-ern city in the world. It was July 21-I 21-I th when we reached said city and saw the sun at twelveo'clock midnight.There were three elders in our little company as the Prest. of Bergen conference joined join-ed us from Aalburg conference, and we went on our way back through Sweden. The trip took us just one month when we returned to Aalburg August the 5th. ' On the 25th of January last, I received a notice from Mission Prest. Andrew Jensen that I was released from presid" ing over the Aalburg conference and appointed to come over to Copenhagen at once to preside over the Copenhagen conference in place of our beloved Bro. O. J. Anderson who had presided over theconference for the last sn.ven months and was honorably released from that position as his time was required in his office with the translation of the Star and other literature that had to be printed, print-ed, hence that was a surprise to me as I thought sure that the rest of my time would be spent in my old field of labor where 1 also labored a good deal of my time on my former missio l in 1901, but knowing that I had not come to do my own will, but the will of who sent me here . I made preparation to leave Aalburg and arrived here in Copenhagen on the morning of Febuary 2nd in Korsgrade II, headquarters of the Scandinavian mission and have the privilege of being located in the same building as brother and sister 0. J. Andersen, lives, which of course I appreciate very much as they are my neighbors at home. I find after being here two and one half months Brother Anderson after his four ' year stay in the mission field that he 1 has gained the respect and love of both th saints and friends while it was a great sorrow and trial for them to sus- : tain the loss of their daughter Gunda, do they feel to say the Lord's will be j done and not theirs, which is the proper j spirit to be guided by, and now they feel happy that their release is near at hand ' as there is a man on the road now to j come and take Brother Andersons plede j in the Star office, and I hope my release will also soon be coming as it is to-day j twenty-three months since I left my home in Castle Dale. The work of 'the Lord is continuing to grow, forty three babtism in the mission were pjrformei the mon'h j ist ended, and the prospects are bright for the future at present, only more el iers are needed in the mission field. As the saj ing is, the harvest is gre it, but the laborers are few. We are having very cold weather of ! late been swiming off and on the last i few days, a thing very unusual for Denmark. Den-mark. Receiving and reading your valuable paper with interest. Brother and Sister 0. J. Andersen join with me in sending you and the people at home our best regards, wishing you all success in your labors, I remain. Yours respectfully, Richard C. Miller. I |