Show LETTER melfort 31 elfort sask november la 18 IWO lear dear brother marshall I 1 am taking this opportunity of 0 thanking lanking Il you for sending me the rich h county reaper the p past ast fourteen months I 1 look forward to its coming every week and usually get it on oil saturdays Satui days I 1 have spedit my full time in saskatchewan katch ewan district in ili canada of the north central states mission have worked in ili three towns with four companions pan pail ions lons I 1 am glad to say they art arc ail very fine young men three from calah fall and one from sterling alberta the firt first tomi we were sent kent to was swift current being the first mormon idars t to cp tract the town we ran into tiery nery kind of religion rel ision and ideas about the ilie mornion mormon people you could thin if f we had one saint family who liel us a great deal in our work while stationed there we had the vani lege ot of going goin to the bardston cardston Card ston temple in southern ou thern alberta tl berta where we VP spent a week doing temple work t ni did il with the saints I 1 ca can n ran cay r an tills this has been the highlight of nv mv r mission so far the saints there ther were jut grand it made me feel light at home we were asked to fiend t the christmas holidays with the people in raymond alberta they licce lie ve two ward nvard there ind and the dairus recited us like their own family we toil shed swift current for the prest ut time at the last of june where wo left our om many friends and investigators I 1 was then transferred to is katoon with our Dist district riot president are adent elder cider nelson from sterling uberta alberta was only there three weeks when eldr glubner from mention mendon utah and myself were transferred to melfort where we have been working the sur the past four months the people in this distinct are berv we have few doors slammed in our faces bally of the people are rom the united states thought they bould come to canada and make a cotune in a hurry burry but a lot them are rn on relief now there are people from all ail parts of the world here there axe are nil 1111 a few who cant speak the ell eng sh ii language the principal grain grown in a saskatchewan sasi I 1 katch ewan is wheat but the govern mcgirt is trying to bring irrigation in ili bo the people will be able to do more nixed mixed farming the government has experimental farms barins all over ii ewan ind and CT AA e find there are mormon rn i most of them to show the people how to irrigate the land this mis year the war on they cant calit get ril rid of 0 the wheat so the canners have only lien aible able to sell from five to twenty bushels to the he acre they have verv bod d crops here the land yields from 1 21 0 to 70 bushels to the acie when they gee gec any rain in ili the past 10 years 1 ia I pints of saskatchewan they have had ol llull drouth ull ind and many of the farmers have lad ind to have relief there Is a N lot nf if mini ngn the he northern part of oan ci aila sume of which are gold old silver cual coal and copper llie weather in ill saskatchewan is something some oni lhing ething like ours at home I last itt tt winter was one of the mildest wini willi berh aih that has been experienced for tars ears the thermometer t go be low ow 50 degrees they tell me an av rage winter goes from 40 to 53 55 de below and sometimes stays that old for 3 weeks nt at a time in the they have haive grand weather 1 I is light around 3 in tile the ri rio orning riling ind and gets dark at 80 at a night the sun still milnes 16 to 18 hours a day in ili parts of makatche saskatchewan Sa katche avan they have a longer gro growing whig season than 0 have we have quite a time up ill here be aall giue ii ue e of the war some of the elders tile a ie called aa nazi I 1 spies my aly companion and I 1 while in swift current abere v ere picked ill up by two mounted p po lice ice they asked all kinds kind of que iona I 1 guess someone m in town had reported us when listening to what avila baing soing in europe at the present it makes us realize more and more how fortunate we are to live in a land of pe peace pace ace when were at home we dont realize continued on last page LETTER aliat we hae ilan e I 1 have heard it said i nd I 1 know its true that tho the mormons cormons dav have the choice land of oe canada and the united states I 1 think when I 1 st t back to randolph you wont hoar hear we saying im boit satisfied at least wo no have all we can eat cat theres nothing to equal this work in all the llie world I 1 know this is talc rue gopel go pei of jesus christ I 1 only nope and pray that more of our young people at home can have the same op as we nie are having AL slay alty ty gods blessings be with you and the at home sincerely yours ELDER KAY |