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Show With Our Missionaries 706 East 4th Street, Ontario, California, March 23, 1933. American Fork Citizen, American Fork, Utah. Dear Editor: For the past 22 months I have received the Citizen, in central and southern California towns where I have been laboring as a missionary, and I have appreciated your kindness kind-ness in sending me that weekly edition edi-tion of news from home. The longer one is away from home the more he appreciates receiving news from there. I have certainly enjoyed reading read-ing the Citizen and finding out what has been happening among my friends and associates there. It has meant a great deal to me in keeping keep-ing my spirit up at times of trouble and trial. It has been my pleasure to have labored in three districts namely Fresno, Los Angeles and San Bur-nardino, Bur-nardino, where I am at present time. I have done missionary work in most of the towns in these districts. As other missionaries I have had many interesting, thrilling and sad experiences ex-periences such ' as being chased by dogs, or mad women, ordered out of people's places, feeling earth quakes, being in floods and being in auto wrecks, also laboring out in the sun when it was 120' in the shade, and no shade available. And occasionally occasional-ly having one of California's unusual days, which aint much different from others. As well as sleeping out in the big open spaces, or staying up all night because I never had a place to lay down. These are a few things that go to make up missionary life and to make it interesting. We have to have the bitter things in life to make us appreciate the sweet. The harder it is the better one likes it, and the happier he is. I am grateful for the opportunity of laboring as an ambasador of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in this part of His vineyard. It has made a great imprint upon my life and I hope I shall always have the same spirit I now possess and that my faith and testimony may continue to grow. I am in possession of a very strong testimony of this gospel and know it cannot be shaken or torn down very readily. The longer one is engaged in the Gospel the more he appreciates it. Again thanking you for the copies of the Citizen I have received, and those I will yet receive, I am sincerely, Elder John Lloyd Wagstaff. o |