Show MISS mARl ai MITS US 11 LAO finds people receptive to aress Mes message sige age quotes a page fijut hl ili city I 1 nao s his hoine tom it paper wentworth noad road doncaster england 20 1930 mr frank Beckw beckwitt itU delta utah dear mr beckwith 1 I am taking this opportunity to write to you from my field ot of labor and express my feelings my work I 1 have read with interest the chron lele as it has been forwarded from time to time by my folks it gives me a good idea of what Is 10 going on at lieme which idea none can appreciate until they have exper fenced it I 1 am speaking from the doncaster branch of the sheffield district of the british mission of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and it if you will grant me the use of one of yo your ur columns I 1 should like to aay ay hello to all my friends who are readers of your paper my friends I 1 send you my greet ings from the merry english mid lands where I 1 an am struggling to in still in the heart of the people that great desage lot oit love which was given by our savior I 1 find aa as a rule that the people are looking tor for it many think they have it others very few reject it openly all of this goes to make up mis flonary lite life may I 1 hene herp refer to a leaf taken from my diary it is enclosed in this letter and it depict si the better side of Missi missionary onery life or as we call it the spice of missionary lite life may you have good health also success to crown your efforts in the future is the wish of your sincere friend james C rawlinson the leaf from the diar follows ceic A NABI EXPERT ncr while going about seeking hodg ings in the pleasant town of doneas ter elder and I 1 came to a large house nearly a palace the ad dress pit of which had been furnished us ln in answer to an advert in the paper f we rang and were met by an el derly lady who us what we de sired upon furnishing this anfor madiou we were granted entrance and invited to sit down we were comfortably ensconced in nice over stuffed chairs while making our wants known we won found that anve we could not afford to live there so we changed the subject from that topic some thing seemed to influence me to teach the gospel but it was hard tio to find a place to introduce that topic e I 1 had not long to wait however tor for our hostel a soon granted us this op unity by asking what line of bus lines iness we were engage engaged cl in seeing our opening we told her are we were doing mis conary work she was very interested interest eid and asked us our particular creed without hesitation we told her we were the church of jesus christ of latter day saints our hostess soon put two and two together and said mor mons monsa we told her she was right tight ow whereupon she quoted that oft re heated epithet mormon women seekers ee elkers this gave us a good chance to i refute this epithet and preach our plan of salvation in its elead we began by agnor ignoring ing the epithet and telling her just what mormon ism holda out to the people in thia this life lite and the life to come she then asked us how we were different from the church of england in answer we ae told her of the words of the sa vior when he named his ills church at ter his name also when he organic ed his ills church giving it first apos ties second prophets then evangel ests pastors teachers and other others tor for the advancement of his church and the perfecting of the saints then we showed slowed her the line of our au an cherity which goes back step by step to jesus christ we showed her how there had been an apostasy and of the suase quent bent restoration we explained that peter had retained the keys of the kingdom of god and had not passed them on in his day but had brought them forth into this despen bation thus disallowing the catholic cale claim of it which when done relieved the church of england of her authority it being an offshoot of the catholic religion she asked us many while she sat and drank the water of everlasting life we described the book of mormon to her and told her bahat it is then we arose to go 90 she asked us many questions concerning that tha t book while we were preparing to go and then she said she would like to borrow one of course we told her that we would gladly comply with her wish this Is what I 1 call the spice of missionary life and elder heartily agrees with me jamea james C Rawlin |