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Show Letter From Elder -4 I J. P. Sch'ow. 1 1 Straudboyj BNykobfng Falstcr, . $ I Feb. 8, 100(J I EntTort or Lnit Hannkr: ' f' I Dear Sir: Having received Thsj I JJannek for a long lime I take this I means in thanking liiose who are send- I log it to me, because it is indeed a wb I come visitor with much intercitlnp news from home lo any one, who Is In u foreign country. It makes cne feel, after he has rend Titr. Bannm, like he had just hail a long conversation with some friend at home, relating the things that ate going op. I .tm much pleased to learn ot the progiess Lehi is making and to learn the news of my home town. notice in reading the colutna of Trie Banner that the tnjitionarlek fllve a little Sketch of. Ihelr labors and I feel that it is not more than I should do. It mny be of loterest to the many at liette," who are lneieted irf the great work, wh)ch I am representing, together with many ethers In all parts ot the world t It Is now some fourteen months since I (eft Lehi for a mission toScandauavia. I'lejt yu Uke CHrvr.wJiti ., j eecfi':ere;iMl4lo'fks'roii Hm 2if rtfa Nov., 100t, wjieu ni riving at Boilon wai joined by twelity-four others making in all forty-threo Elders leaving for Euro- penrt missions, twenty-three' of that f iiumber was set apart ior Scandinavia., J while the rest were sent to Germany;' C Eaglaud, etc. Arriving at Copenhagen C w.,wereaieigned to the different Con- V (erences,Deumark,Hvedenaiul Norway. V t was eent to labor on Bornholni, hotter a known among the missionaries, who call it "I'ntmqs." This did not sound ( orj goal to me at rl'rst, for I was think- C Ing of the Isle of Patmos, where John the llevelator wna banished, however C it being the plnco of my btrtli, I did V not fear very much. TN tuiecioiinriss j have been sent away from there a num- ber of tiujee, but'uf fate they have been i treating us very kindly. f Tt e reason It is called "Patmos!' is because it lays about one hundred miles 6 fiom the other part of Denmark, along 0 the southeast coast of Sweden aud not 0 far from Germany, "being a lone V island." Here I laboied for about six Y months with Ilrother L, P. U. Nellson X ot Idaho as my companion. I hod some a relatives here who had been very bitter c towards the cause of truth, but we made C some of Ihfiu our friends who are now' V iuvestigatliigtlie gospel together with i many others, and see the difference in ; what they had heard and what the ) scriptures teach. We feel a good work ) Is being done and many will be brought ( to the fold as there lias been in the past and have gathered from this Island, There is n nice little branch ot the chinch hereon tLli Island. ( 1 then moved to another branch called ' Moen last June to a grgup ot little . Islands numbering lire, where I labored with a companion until last October ( Conference. I enjoyed my labor here ( very much, as we traveled from Island to island by boats, steamers and ferries. We luld meetings whenever wo could, nnd whlla here two were added to the ' Church. ' Since last October Conference I have ' been laboring in this branch called Lollniidnnd Falster, where a number ot faints live ntid many good friends who are Investigating the gospel and . will accept of it when they fully under stand the same, which we are trying to tacb them, We enjoy the work of the Lord which also is progressing in this foreign land, I enjoy good health amLfeel it a great blessing to anyone lo sill a mission. My testimony of thi Gospel is greatly, strengthened. Will close with kind regards to ll The Banniiii included. 3, ?. Bcnow, i |