Show ELDER GURR ENJOYING LABORS IN GERMANY the th knowing very interesting letter was received by the editor 0 thi a paper dorng ng the week from klaw 1111 arnold 0 gurr do bpi n 1 sa adolph 18 july 12 1938 dear mr mtchell I 1 am going to try to lo follow the old gorman gernian saying lass fircht Ms his morgen kuhen was ju ill heute hannet liann pt tun and write a detlet to you the amea came abou in an hour ago ani ana since then as usual when it cornea comes I 1 have been poring over the news one ceral nily appreciates the he honn ham a town 1 paper per when he la Is ta n tho the mission field about miles away from home I 1 am taking this chils opportunity of sending my thanks and besten beaten dalik tor for it the lebhar lelit CT tram sister volet stev ensi interested me very much it seems g gjoa od to hear how the work Is i progressing in mak sous it is nearly a year since I 1 last wrote to t you and a dine filled wan ji irow tv and varying experiences tot for itie file As you see hee by my iny address I 1 am bow located in saxony is a lout bout kilometers s south of berlin I 1 was tram guben just jus a month ago after having spent a whole year in ill that branch saxony is the most place in germany get so I 1 have limed and I 1 can ayta aly believe A after havins having travelled around through the dolfa doffs in this the country coun try Is just a solid sold carpet of green with ripening gra it for dobele is a farmand district and s certainly w H taken care of every nook and corner is used to raise some kind bind of crop the low rolling hills and green man made forests all go to make everything very beautiful from the windows of our room on the he abird floor of this roon rooming drig bause it is possible to see over the old town and tar far out ov r the fields the sight is beautiful with wiach the many diff different erint and varying colors from the potato and ripening ripening graan bolds felds dung the birst of june we held our yearly conference of the Ost deutsche mission in dresden in spite of the fact that we wore were refused the use of a bg assembly hall on the day before the conference began and were forced to jam about members frends tr enas wd missionaries in the church house the conference was vory inspirational and worth while A wonderful was throughout the conference coo terence a and n d kimbers men ibera and bends wends tri ends returned tu to their homes ath new pep and enthusiasm thusia sm our testimony m moc ct naj climaxed the conference conte nence those hours spent in those mee ings will I 1 ne iwo for ever y V ray MY memi cry nc auly IY a hundred if missionaries sat there in a bg b g brei e and one b one we gave our befi iam nes it sa Is how many different d teet montea montes arid and the m Esio names ah in a yar oi of time we spent el elsvan van hours in meetings on th that at day if ay with only efort recesses but the line mariy flew by I 1 am sure it 1 other people outside of our church could just attend some same misso missionary nary meetings such buch as these that there would be a dl attitude about dou and our curch C 0 during tile conference we mis by president prea pret Went ident rees reea and S 6 ster res rees took a boat liria tri P up U p tilio idle elbe to tile hie saxon stze switzerland rland schweiz Sch welz that was may first sight of high cliffa and mountains in ill cennady the was wonderful but stul still does not compare will w th our ce rim ri M arid abil other parks in in U tali tah the tha beautiful colors are arc lacking here to make things perfect I 1 agree with entirely that thearo Is no place so BO well eui aad to give gilve men and women I 1 tr ofru ng in thep ot of life las as in the misson mission leh it seems seema that we have to be sent cp on a mission to really appreciate the value of our it la is a wonderful feeling to know that the little mormon church or Mor as we are often caled in berma my ta ig the true church during my InIs Tn eslon sion I 1 have had bad tile the opportunity port unity of 0 visiting many otho churches it fo a always wath 1 feel ing liag of 0 and a feel tie mg ot of thankfulness that I 1 am a Mo mormon irmon that I 1 cout continued to lick back pago n ELDER GURR ENJOYING LABORS IN GERMANY ij continued from first pare pace leave these churches we ve are having success this I 1 mission the church Is not becom I ing large but it Is hold off mg MB ta own owl and a lew few new me members abets very year in gen general ciral the church I 1 ercul byul mission missionaries aTles are still given considerable freedom and ate arc on n y r endly terms width eiith the head bead of the I 1 received a card from the inosa in my old oid german home town guban til s morning that they had baptized tour four ol of our our old friends tri ends that gives ono one a feel ng of joy that tbt can not be expressed sn n mure wod boidi it interests me much ot of the time to read the of the people and wi in amelica to the changes abang that ato are geang g ans on in germany and europe in my opan lon on many many things yes are terribly exaggerated espe especially dally some of the claims against the we as missionaries find che he german people as a whole a very indu pin and friendly people no people in 1 I 1 the lie world can exceed them n ther hospitality anil and willingness to help others there are many things wit wh ph happen here which when properly explained would not look so BO bad to the american Ameri cain people the total absence ot of hums burns and people out of work thumping thumb thum Wing ns the r way from city to city makes one won der how bow it is all accomplished iii ii 1 this land hind of overpopulation over population anil and i resources garmany ath out gut the newly annexed austria austra has e a population of 0 about and an area in square miles of a about bout tace the size of the state of I 1 bah I 1 often wonder what we would do in utah 1 we had a latkin of about it B s time that I 1 begin my daily I 1 work 9 go must au author thoren cn bet j wishes ednd Viele grusse to everyone in the old home town fown sincerely arnold 0 GUT |