Show missionary LETTER FROM california A B christensen tells of his labors labor on the pacific coast ocean park cal jan 22 editor reaper it may be of interest to some of the readers of the reaper to read i few lines from the hunny bunny clime of southern california and especially at this t time ime of the air when at home the m mountains aull bains are capped and malless are covered with snow while we are or ra rather ther should be basking in the and enjoying its warm rasp rai yet you vou are riot not the ones who can boast of cold snappy weather as we have had and are still havi ng exve exceptionally optionally cold weather thoua inda 0 of people are suffering from the cold here they a riot not at all prepared for it and the steam heated hotels aid a d houses are the ones which are setting the business in fact here at ocean park they are overcrowded overcrowd over crowded ed millions of dollars I 1 ae a e been lost this I 1 ear in the citrus belt on account of the frost smudge pots were brought ints into service but did not seem to help much my experience has not been as great as 39 the experiences of other fellow laborers laborera in other stated we do not have the mob violence and eions here in the california mission as strong as it exists ill other localities yet other interests in missionary life are just as varied I 1 have greatly enjoyed my work hero here and only hope I 1 may continue to reap the bels sings of satisfaction sati satiR faction in the future as ae I 1 have done in the past my first six months were spent at san diego and in that city we have a thriving branch with a membership of about after our october con ferenc ti elder L R and myself were to redondo beach we did not have as many aanas there as in san deigo but we hijii ea car work at tire the beach town and now we are at ocean park fark where ve e will remain I 1 think until april we have just com commence our labors here but we wa find the people friendly and some are willing to accept out literature and listen to our message many ies es I 1 can sal sa all existing creeds and denominations are represented here in california but christian science chims the state as a whole through nil all this the gospel of jesua christ iq ii being spread pread over the state and mormonism la is being more carefully consid considered eted than ever afore b elore W wishing I 1 shing jou ou ill a happi and prosperous new year if it i a little late 1 I am very truly sours aurs A 13 christensen |