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Show Missionary Tells Of Work In New England 2G1 Benedict Road Pittsfield. Mass. May 13, '?1 Iron County Record Dear Morgan: Will you please send the Iron County Record to Don's address which is 239 So. Main then he will send it on to me, because he will always have my address. ad-dress. I am moving around a lot. My companion and I spent a month in Portsmouth, N. II.. Then Pres. J. Howard Maughan sent for a us a week ago to come to Worcester, Mass. to attend a meeting with him and Sister Maughan. We stayed there umil Monday then came to Pittsiicld. We are the first lady missionaries mission-aries to be in this area. It is a big job because most everyone is a Catholic. Worcester was a city of 250,-000. 250,-000. We have only one member there and Pittsfield has 50,000 people and one member. She is a native of Utah though. These cities are large manufacturing manu-facturing cities. Tittsfield is the manufacturing city for General Electric. They are building a large pipe line from Texas to bring oil here. Yesterday we saw the large paper mills that make all the paper for the United States Currency. This is certainly a different experience ex-perience and hope I will be able to do what is expected of me. We just can't realize what our religion can mean to us here. I just called the one and only fnember here and believe it or not she knew Don when he was stationed at Victorville and attended at-tended church at San Bernardino, Calif. She paid him a wonderful compliment and has invited us out to her home. While I was in Portsmouth 1 met Mrs. Parley Moyle's niece and she was so lovely to us and had us out to dinner and took us for a lovely drive down the coast of New Hampshire. I also met Lois Luke's mother-in-law at Portsmouth. She was a very lovely person. This is a very small world after all. We are having lots of rain but this country is very beautiful, so much foliage and woods right close to people's homes. After i seeing these woods it makes the Joseph Smith story more wonderful won-derful than ever. I am sure the people in Cedar would be happy to know what a wonderful job Bro. and Sister Maughan are doing here. I wish all of them could have heard his talk last Sunday. He was the main speaker, and Sister Maughan and I sang two duets. 1 I was thrilled to think she would ask me to sing with her. When I went into the meet-1 meet-1 ing at Worcester, who should he there but Barbara Williams from Kanarra. I was so thrilled. She looks just wonderful and is doing do-ing a wonderful work, only hope I can do half as well. I am as ever, ARDELLA B. FORD. |