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Show Accepts Call I ' ! ' ' '' ; ' . - v' : r 'IT"" ' y- J JOHN A. GILBERT, becomes be-comes the second Seventy of stake lo accept call to serve mission for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint;. He will enler mission home . Monday and will serve in the Southern States for a six-smooth six-smooth term. This will be his "second mission to the south. John Gilbert To Fill Mission For L D S Church A testimonial will be held in the Roosevelt Stake Chapel at 7:30 Sunday evening for John A. Gilbert, who has accepted a call to serve a 6-month mission to the Southern States for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Lat-ter Day Saints. He will enter the mission home Monday morning, morn-ing, Dec. 3 for a brief training period. Elder Gilbert is the second member of the 162nd Quorum of Seventy of the Roosevelt Stake to accept a mission call since the first presidency issued a call for the Seventy of the church to prepare for a call, and the third to be in the mission field. The father of eight children, Elder Gilbert recently sold out The Western Stores, a business in which he was a partner with the late Randall Stewart. He plans to re-enter business here when he returns from his mission mis-sion next June. His son, Byron, now in the army,- served a mission mis-sion in California, returning last March. Two of his daughters are in college, and the1 others! are at home. i This will be the second mission mis-sion to the south for Elder Gilbert, Gil-bert, who served from October 1924 to January; 1927, in Florida Flor-ida and Georgia. His activity in his church has been rather var-I var-I ied. At present he is a counselor in the stake genealogical com-mittee: com-mittee: He ,has served as president presi-dent of two different elders' quorums, in the superintendency of stake and ward Sunday School organizations, as well as ward MIA president. He has also served as a ward and stake missionary. The program. Sunday evening will be under the direction of the Roosevelt Ward bishopric and the 162nd Quorum of Seventy. Sev-enty. It will follow the Second Ward's Sunday evening meeting, meet-ing, 7 and will replace the regularly regu-larly scheduled Sunday school program, which will be held at a later date. Members of the entire stake are invited to at-, at-, tend. |