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Show HB ' ii " ' B From the Far North. B .Uear friends of tho Uaxni'u: 1 H thought it would bo but my duty to drop H you a few lines stud if yuu thought it H vorth taking you could put it in your H home industry paper. It lias given me H much pleasure to get the Hanxkk and H rend the home news and hear of the H otner niissionniios from Lulu. I did not B know but what a few lines from youi H humble servant would at leastgivo them H uoinething to read as well aa to hoar how H I feel. 1 am thnnkful to the Lord that H 1 am well and liavo been all the time H with but very few exceptions and am H interested in my mipsidnary labors. 1 H jlnd there is plenty to do and too few R missionaries heroin Norway, if I am left B to judge, for 1 am alone at present until m more come over from home. It is one m jear and one month since I left my B homo. I had a very pleasant journey B koth on land and sea. I did not miss B one meal all the way crossing the ocean. B We had (i in the company for England, B 3 for Denmark, 2 for Sweden, and I alone B for Norway where I arrived on July 3, H 1890 at Christhnn. At that time Peter B Anderson of Ojden was president. He B -was r. man full of energy. He left for B homo luht April and now D. K. Blown of H Nephi is in bis stead, JIIo is equally as H food. The mission is a prosperous one B if I am left to judge. It ban fallen to my H Jot to travel a good deal since I arrived. B At lirst I got lenv to visit my relatives K lor ten Jays then 1 returned to B Christiana. In the journey I traveled H about 185 miles. I was then appointed B to labor where I am at present. This H city lays on the southeast side of Nor B way. On September 12-13, 189G I at- B tended a conference held at Cliristiana H and was there appointed to labor in H Edsvold Gren or Bronch which lays in B the east and ccntor of Norway. There j H labored in a company with my brother, B Matthias Knudson, until last December B 'when I was appointed to take charge o1 B the Truinso Branch, which is tho B farthest -north vot any branclfof Saints BBBE H an the world. 1 arrived on January 5 B &U(' there was no sun to be seen there K at any time then and but a little day- B light. We did not get to see the sun H until Jan 23 when it first peeped over B the hills in the far south. On May 6th B 1 left there. It was all daylight then B nnd no dnrkiufs. In tho last part of B April conference was again held at B Christiana but I did not go for it was B too far to travel and cost too much, but B they wrote me a letter stating I had B been called to labor in Stnvcngcr where B I am now and whicli was my first Hold H of labor. It was then a journey from B the farthest north to the extreme H Our mode of missionary labor is to H travel from house to house and leave B tracts which wo lend, sell or give away. H In tho country we hold msotings wher. H ever we can. In the cities wo hire halls H 'both liitlo and big which we must pay B lor sometimes quite high. Wo advertise H ur meetingH in tho newspapers when B- Tve caii. We find some honest souls aud H others full of old traditions which are H hard to overcome but people in Norway H are honest as a rulo. I find it is hard H lor me, at least, to get food or a bod H -without paying for it but it is to be got B sometimes. H May this find you all well as it leaves B oae in the laud of the north. B Yours truly, B Christian Kindscn. B fltavanger, Norway, July 6, 1897. . . k i ii i |
