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Show r1 LBTl'ER PROM GEO. G. WEBB. l St. I'ttiil, Nov. 2, 1P03. - Mn. Qo. Wmin, W ( Enrron ov Dannkii, &! ' Dear Uncle: I now take timo and . plcnsura to write a few lines to you nnd fe , hope they will Jlnd you all well nud en- b joying yourselves ns theso leayo mt at 'H1' present. I just received Tho Banner this morning for which 1 feel to thauk l' you very much. I have thought of writing to you before and have jou , ssud it to mo, but I nover got lo It. I ,'; will enjoy raadlng the Lehl news for , 7. Lehl nud her peoplo aro dear to mo nnd I llko to hear what Is going on thore. r Jly wbat I hear you hnvs had abetter " " it." i " xcaoon there thla year than last, nblch I am glad to hear, Minnesota is a nice olate It Is covered cov-ered with Krnss wherever yon look and enough rain to beep it nlc and green nil tho time. There is a larpe amount of timber all over the state. They hava had too much rain here this summer so they could hardly gather their crops. If wo had n little ot it out in Utah it would h better for Mb places, but hcanbea tt h lss tale & rahil n gall iy?tn'WrrIa'alitwial1)l5Tr HI LI I l,Hjjpww?t JH - mam crops here me Wheat, oal, ye. barley, nud corn. They rata n few sugar beets but not niaiy-thy say Iheyaretoo much bother. Ther have a factory near Mluneapolia. St. t'aul is rjulte n tiles city with nbout one hundred nnd eighty thousand people, nud it is called a city of taints, and you might think it was by tlicnnni-bvr tlicnnni-bvr of ihurchrs there are in the clly but out of nil that number of people there aro only nbout twelve thousand cliurth-going people, to you see there h soiio room for misflunary woik here. In the city of saints esptelally, if you waut lo make Latter day Saints ol them, at the ruto they are coming into tho church it would take quite a while to get them nil. We have n nice little braced of tho church here, nbuut alxty members, in St. I'aul and Minneapolis. We have eighteen ciders laboring In this conference nt present uuder the able management of President A. M. Croft, a bright young man from I'etcr-eon, I'etcr-eon, Cache Co , Utah. Tho eldors are working hard to spread the truth among the people, hut wo flud ths people peo-ple very Indiflerent In regards to IU gospol. Wo do not meet so much oppo sltton but a vareltss indifference: They tell us they have their own religion nnd that U good enough fur them, but we Hud nn old lady once in n while who lj u3..di .t. .."in.nd ,iuel,n of m in who will slam the o, uA... JuceT Whon-facijrtrtrTacTiiig, bill we gcnr.Mutho next door nnd introduce oureehes ns Mormon elders nnd start to talk to them on the gospel and ths first thing we know tho door Is shut again and wo ntoleft talking lo Ike door knob, hut we go to the next door with more determination than ever. We have a mecsngo for nil mankind nnd they have their own fret agency to receive, or reject it which they choose. Tho majority of mankind always have rejected re-jected tho eervanis of the Lord in all nges of the world when He has cent them with a message unto them, nnd wo cannot look for anything better in oiu day. I hate been laboring in the west part u( St. l'nut and have made a good many friends a;id I havi a few investigating investi-gating the truth of the gospel. The people hero never Interfere with us when we hoi 1 meetings on the streets; they ner dl.tuib tin and there Is always al-ways some to listen to us. I feel th-inkful thnt my parents listened lis-tened to the humble elders nnd received re-ceived the gonpel nnd that I was born and reared in the church, and I thank the Lord fur ths tesllmonv whlth I have of tho goipol Hnd that I was counted worthy lo come ferth to leach the gospel for n Is a grand school. We meet all kinds of people with nil kiuda ofidrns. Well I must close for this lime. Your nephew, Gko. G. Webb. |