EUROPEAN LABOR MISSIONARY PROGRAM

As W e Build Churches, W e W ill Also Build People

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VOL. 1, No. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1961

Editor George R. Biesinger

Managing editor Vernice G. Rosenvall
Associate managing editor Ruby R. DeBry
Layout, art and photography Thomas R. Winkel
Proof reader and consultant Hazel Jackson
British area correspondent Pearl Moore
Germanic area correspondent Vera Gygi
Scandinavian area correspondent Reba Winkel

ADDRESSES AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS:

Vernice G. Rosenvall Amersfoortsestraatweg 66

Bussum, N.H., Netherlands
Telephone: Bussum 1 12 42
Pearl Moore No. 3 The Ridings
Epsom, Surrey, England
Telephone: Epsom 30 01
Vera Gygi Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse 13
Frankfurt A/M, West Germany
Telephone: 59 61 42
Reba Winkel Herdersweg 1
Laren, N.H., Netherlands
Telephone: Laren 24 97

It is Life, the very Life of Life.

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision:
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Druk: van Gestei en Zoon (From Salutation to the Dawn
Laren n. h., Netherlands by the Indian dramatist, Kalidasa.)

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EDITORIAL
In the past few weeks we have had come into the
British area a dozen or more families - the men to
act as Labour Missionary Supervisors. As they
have come into the area it has been my privilege to
visit with each of the men and to explain the
Labour Missionary Programme to them.
I have been very much impressed by each of these
families who have given up lives of relative ease
and luxury, left their families and friends to come
here to help build our Fathers kingdom on earth.
Especially have I been impressed with their will
ingness to serve, to cooperate and give their
undivided loyalty to the Labour Missionary
Programme, all because of their belief in a way
of life.
The presence on the various construction projects
of the local labour missionaries testifies that these
traits are not peculiar to Americans only, but are
shared equally by their brethren in the Priesthood
who live in England.
Too, I have been greatly impressed by the accept
ance of the Labour Missionary Programme by the
local membership of the church, who pledge their
time and talent to the completion of chapels, built
to the glory of God.
At a recent ground breaking service one of the
local architects, not a member of the Church,
heard one of our speakers say that we were
building a chapel to the glory of God. The architect
said how pleased he was to hear that we were
building chapels to the glory of God and not to
the glory of some architect, some church leader
or some group of people. The architect spoke of
how thrilled he was with the Labour Missionary
By Elder J. Neil Bradley
Programme and of the devotion and dedication to
a belief which such a programme must entail.
Throughout history people have given their all for
a cause or a belief. I think now of the 19 year old
French girl, Joan of Arc, who while the fires were
being lighted around the stake at which she would be
burned alive, was given the chance of saving her
life by renouncing what she believed. In choosing
the fire above her freedom she said: The world
can use these words ... I know this now. Every
man gives his life for what he believes. Every
woman gives her life for what she believes. Some
times people believe in little or nothing, and yet
they give their lives to that little or nothing. One
life is all we have and we live it as we believe in
living it, and then it is gone. But to surrender what
you are and live without belief is more terrible than
dying young.
No man is great for himself alone. He is great
because of what he believes in and stands for and
fights for. The most humble of us can stand for the
greatest things. We are great for what we may
become, and we becom e tomorrow what we think
today.
Who does his task from day to day
And meets whatever comes his way,
Believing God has willed it so,
Has found true greatness here below;
Who guards his post no matter where.
Believing God must need him there,
Although but lowly toil it be
Has risen to nobility
For great and low there s but one test.
Tis that each one shall do his best,
Who works with all the strength he can
Shall never die in debt to man.
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1961
July 1 - Ground breaking ceremon
ies held for the West Hartlepool
Chapel, North British Mission. Elder
Ralph E. Lane, Supervisor of Con
struction.
July 2 - Elder F. Oliver Grundvig,
wife Vivian W. arrived in England
from Port Townsend, Washington.
Elder Grundvig is the Labor Mis
sionary Supervisor for the Liverpool
Chapel. His present address is: 3 Oak
Road, Huyton, Liverpool.
July 3 - Elder Myron D. Neuffer,
wife Camille and daughter Marilyn
arrived in England. Their home is
Bozeman, Montana. He is Supervisor
of Construction of the Manchester
Ward addition.
July 3 - Ground Breaking ceremo
nies held for the Lappeenranta Cha
pel of the Finnish Mission. Elder
Arne Ojala, acting Supervisor of
Construction.
July 3 - Elder Aimo Jakko was set
apart as the first full-time labor
missionary in the Scandinavian Area.
He is from Lappeenranta, Finland
and is at present working on the
chapel there. His address is: c/o
Aarne Ojala, Juvakankatu 55, Lap
peenranta, Finland.
July 4 - Brother Taisto Jaaskelai-
nen was set apart as the second
full-time labor missionary in Fin
land. He is from Hyvinkaa, Finland
and is working on the chapel at
Lappeenranta. His address is: c/o
Aarne Ojala, Juvakankatu 55, Lap
peenranta, Finland.
July 7 - Remodeling and redecorat
ing begun on mission home in
Hamburg, Germany, to be head
quarters for new North German
Mission. Elder Hans Jensen, Super
visor of Project.
July 7 - Brian Roper of Manches
ter, England called and set apart as
a labor missionary by President
William Bates of the Manchester
Stake. His present address is c/o
Elder J. Henry Boren, 161 Styal
Road, Gatley, Cheshire, England.
July 10 - Malcolm Bolton from
Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England
called to be a labor missionary. He
is working on the Leeds Ward Cha
pel with Elder Carlton A. Harris.
Present address is c/o Roger Burton,
57 Broadlea Grove, Leeds 13.
July 17 -Elder Marvin S. Harding,
wife Olive Rand son Michael 14,
arrived in England from Murray,
Utah. No address available at time
of printing.
July 22 - Ground breaking ceremo
nies were held for the Liverpool
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Chapel, Manchester Stake. Elder F.
Oliver Grundvig, Supervisor of
Construction.
July 23 - Terrance George Fielding
was called to be a labor missionary.
Originally from Australia, he is
working on the chapel at York, Hull
District, North British Mission. Pre
sent address is: c/o Elder Lewis
Hiatt, Acomb Road and West Bank,
York, England.
July 26 -Elder Theodore May, wife
Caroleen, children Nanette 3, Mar-
leen 2, and Brenda 1, arrived in
England from Murray, Utah. Elder
May is a brickmason by trade. No
address availible at time of printing.
July 27 -First issue of THE BUIL
DER came off press. Mailing list
consisted at that time of 115 names
of people connected with the Eur
opean Building Program.
July 30 Elder Austin H. Anderson
Jr., wife Beth N., son Craig 11,
arrived in England from Moab,
Utah. No address available at time
of printing.
July 31 - Elder Stevenson McDo
nald, wife Sylvia, children Irene 18,
Edward 13, arrived in England from
Salt Lake City, Utah. Elder McDo
nald is at present remodeling the
Glasgow Chapel. No address avail
able at time of printing.
July 31 - President Wendell B.
Mendenhall and wife, Wealtha,
arrived in London from Salt Lake
City. Elder Mendenhall is in charge
of the world-wide church building
program and is here to confer with
leaders of the European area.
The following dates and information
should have been in the first issue:
March 21 - Royce Goodier was
called and set apart as a labor mis
sionary by President William Bates
of the Manchester Stake. He is from
che Stockport Ward. Present address
is: c/o Elder Lawrence Wortley, 476
Bury Road, Bamford, Rochdale,
England.
March 28 - Frank Blcase, Jr. of the
Oldham Ward was called on a labor
mission by President Laron and set
apart by President Bates. Present
address is: c/o Elder J. Henry Boren,
161 Styal Road, Gatley, Chesire,
England.
April 6 - Keith George Fisher was
called and set apart to be a labor
missionary by President Bates of
the Manchester Stake. He is from
the Liverpool Ward. Present address
is: c/o Elder J. Henry Boren, 161
Styal Road, Gatley, Cheshire, Eng
land.
April 6 - Jeffery Robinson from
Wythenshaw, England was called
and set apart by President Caddick
to be a labor missionary. Present
address is: c/o Elder J. Henry Bo
ren, 161 Styal Road, Gatley,
Cheshire, England.
May 1961 - Stuart Bowrne of the
Liverpool Ward was called to be a
labor missionary by Bishop Cubbon
and set apart June 25 by President
Bates of the Manchester Stake. Pre
sent address is: c o Elder Lawrence
Wortley, 476 Bury Road, Bamford,
Rochdale, England.
May 1961 - Ernest Alker, 16, from
Wigan, was called to be a labor
missionary by President Ross, Wi
gan Branch President, and set apart
by President Bates of the Manches
ter Stake. Present address is :c/o El
der Lawrence Wortley, 476 Bury
Read, Bamford, Rochdale, England.
June 6 -Oliver Dewsnup was cal
led to be a labor missionary by
Bishop Eric R. Snelson of the Rad-
cliff e Ward and set apart by Presi
dent Bates of the Manchester
Stake. Present address is: c o Elder
J. Henry Boren, 161 Styal Road,
Gatley, Cheshire, England.
June 10 - John Anderson from
Harpenden, Hertfordshire was cal
led and set apart as a labor mission
ary by President Hemingway of
the London Stake. Present address
is: c o Elder Claude L. Erickson, 38
Bloomfield Road, Tilehurst Berk
shire, England.
June 16 - Elder Arnold Jones from
Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales was
called to be a labor missionary. At
present he is working on the West
Hartlepool Chapel and his address
is: c/o Elder Ralph E. Lane, 31 Cais-
tor Drive, West Harltepool, Durham
County, England.
June 16 - Thomas Leighton Jones
was called to be a labor missionary
and was set apart July 14 by Presi
dent Cullimorc of the North British
Mission. From Merthyr Tydfil, South
Wales. His present address is: c'o
Elder Ralph E. Lane, 31 Caistor
Drive, West Hartlepool, Durham
County, England.
June 19 - Barry F. Lee was called
to be a labor missionary. He is from
London and Bosildon. Present ad
dress is: c/o Elder Claude L. Erickson,
38 Bloomfield Road, Tilehurst,
Berkshire, England.
June 29 - Keith Holtz was called
and set apart as a labor missionary
by President William Bates of the
Manchester Stake. He comes from
Wigan and his present address is:
c/o Elder J. Henry Boren, 161 Styal
Road, Gatley, Cheshire, England.
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Words About Success

There is a Scandinavian saying which some of us TRY AGAIN

might well take as a rallying cry for our lives: The When things go wrong, don t think that all your
north wind made the Vikings.Wherever did we get work has been in vain perhaps it's all been for the
the idea that secure and pleasant living, the absence of best so smile try again. It may be that your
difficulty, and the comfort of ease, ever of themselves failure proves to be the magic door, that leads you
made people either good or happy? Upon the contrary, to a happiness you never knew before ... You may
people who pity themselves go on pitying themselves be weakened in the fight, but not defeated y e t...
even when they are laid softly on a cushion, but It
s no use wasting precious time in tears and vain
always in history character and happiness have come regret. Stand up and face the world again, and if you
to people in all sorts of circumstances, good, bad and keep in view the high goal of your greatest hopes
indifferent, when they shouldered their personal your dreams will all come true. Draw wisdom
responsibility. So, repeatedly the north wind had from your old mistakes and courage from your
made the Vikings. pain and then some day you ll say,
Thank God,
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK I dared to try again.

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Biographical Sketch
WENDELL B. MENDENHALL
WENDELL B. MENDENHALL
Wendell B. Mendenhall was appoint
ed chairman of the Building Com
mittee of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints in July, 1955.
He left an active California business
career to assume direction of a
A n informal talk giren at the British M ission Home, July 1()6 0 ,
telling of the joys, inspiration, and simple faith which made
the building programme, a success in New Zealand and predicting
similar rewards for the laithful British Saints.
The labour missionary programme
has grown to become a very dedi
cated body of people in the interest
of the Church, just like the prose
lyting missionary programme has
become a dedicated programme for
the purpose of proselyting. This is
not a new programme to the
Church; it is an old one. It had its
inception even in the days of Adam,
Abraham and Isaac. It worked dur
ing the time of Noah, when he and
his boys built the Ark. Even the
Saviour was a part of it Himself,
because He learned a trade.
It has been characteristic of our
people all through the ages to be
builders. If we are going to build
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Chairman, Church Building Committee
world-wide program of construction
involving hundreds of new church
buildings each year.
He was born in Mapleton, Utah, on
Sept. 26, 1907, a son of Richard
Lovell and Hannah Bird Menden
hall. After graduation from Spring-
ville High School, he was a student
at Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah and Utah State Univer
sity, Logan, Utah. He married
Wealtha Spafford in Salt Lake City,
Sept. 30, 1927. They are the parents
of two sons and have six grand
children.
His business interests, centered in
Stockton, California, included W. B.
Mendenhall and Sons, Mendenhall
and Murdock Ranching and Live
stock Co., M & M Livestock Trans
portation Co., and Home Factors,
Ltd., Honolulu and is vice president
of a long range study and develop
ment program for downtown Salt
Lake City.
Long experience in church leader
ship preceded his present appoint
ment. As a young man, he served as
a missionary in New Zealand from
1927-30. He was counselor for three
years and a bishop for four years in
the Stockton Ward. He became pre
sident of the San Joaquin Stake for
seven and one-half years, and con
character, we must build it by our
efforts in building homes, places
where we can consolidate the family,
where there can be significance in
the solidarity of the home. We must
build schools that we may learn. We
must build churches that we may
worship. We must build temples that
we may become consecrated and
dedicated to the work of the Lord.
Speaking of temples and the action
and reaction that they have in the
lives of men and women, my only
purpose in talking about the Isles of
the Pacific tonight is to point up a
programme which is now about
ready to go into operation here, to
give us insight and enlightenment
currently was chairman of the
Northern California Region of the
church s vast welfare program.
He acquired property for the
Church s Sacramento River Ranch
Corp., of which he is managing di
rector, and is also a director of two
other Mormon livestock operations
in Florida and Georgia.
He was serving as a special advisor
to the church s First Presidency on
the construction of Pacific area
schools, churches and the New
Zealand Temple, when appointed as
Building Committee chairman.
Elder Mendenhall serves also as
chairman of the Pacific Board of
Education, supervising operation of
a network of secondary schools in
the Pacific area, including the
Church College of New Zealand and
Church College of Hawaii. The Pa
cific schools and churches were
erected through an unusual labor
missionary program which is also
his responsibilty.
He will direct the church s plans for
an impressive program of construc
tion in the United States, Europe,
South America and the Orient, as
well as major developments in Salt
Lake City, including a 38-story ad
ministrative center and mammoth
archives building.
into something which has already
been accomplished by a people who
are not considered anywhere near
in stature, in intelligence or expe
rience, the equal of most of the
civilised world, but a people, to
those of us who know them, who
are surely of the House of Israel
with a very close connection to
heaven, with the veil being so thin
between them and heaven itself that
sometimes in mortality you cannot
distinguish it. I am convinced that
those in the South Pacific, whom
we know as Polynesians, are a very
rare people with a very rare gift,
a gift of discernment, a gift of sim
ple faith, and a gift of being able
to practice that simple faith with
out reservation. I am more certain
every day that I live that these
people were tucked away in this
area of the world to be preserved
for a purpose. If time permitted, I
would like to enlarge on the subject
of the reason that those people
were actually tucked away, but time
will not. Suffice to say that Parley
P. Pratt in vision saw these people
as some of the outstanding workers
in the redemption of Zion, and a
people who would assist and direct
in the building of Jerusalem, and
a people who would carry by reason
of their simple faith the message of
the Church to many lands. They
have a promise which is in the Book
of Mormon, that the isles of the sea
will not be forgotten.
When the Temple was built in New
Zealand, 15 per cent of the total
membership of the Church were
issued temple recommends, which
is an outstanding record. It only
happens among a people who have
lived as they have lived. There are
eight sessions a week held in the New
Zealand Temple. The only reason
that that temple is holding eight
sessions is because the people par
ticipated in building it. They are
a part of it, a real part.
I have had many experiences in
giving direction to this building
programme. Some of these experi
ences I would like to bring to
you. I am sure that the adversary
had been completely successful in
distorting our mental attitude in
Europe. I hazard to say that and I
will try to explain it. I am sure that
the adversary was able to so in
fluence our thoughts that we have
not been able to do the things that
we should normally do. I am sure
the time has come when we must
do the things that are expected of
us in the Church. We have seen the
fangs of the adversary work in this
programme to the point of nearly
complete destruction, not only of
the programme itself, but of the
individuals in the programme.
Some have spoken of the power of
healings and of what the Priesthood
and the power of faith have done
to heal workers and people dedicat
ed to the work. But these people
sitting here tonight can also testify
to you that they have seen the spirit
of the adversary so rampant among
masses of people that it has nearly
destroyed the very effort of the
Lord. And if there is any one thing
that I can truly testify, it is the fact
that this programme is the will of
the Lord, and the adversary knows
it. He knew that if he could break
the will of the people and could
break the will of leadership and
could break the spirit of the people,
there would be no House of God in
the Southern Hemisphere. We have
literally seen the mentality of labour
missionaries reduced to nought by
the power of the adversary, and we
have seen some who have been cal
led to serve practically destroyed,
mentally and spiritually, because
they allowed themselves to become
imbued with this spirit.
We have seen it reach out into hun
dreds of people at a time, but we
have also seen the evidence of
mass fasting and prayer. It has not
been an uncommon thing, and one
in which I have participated with
these folks many, many times, once
a week and oftener, to see six and
seven hundred people dedicated in
this work kneel in a family night
in prayer together in one place. All
of the labour missionaries and their
families who where on the project
fasting by the hour in order that
this spirit of the adversary could be
subdued and the work of the Lord
could go forward. And when the
adversary was subdued and that
spirit arrested, man began to mag
nify himself before God, and great
power and great strength came into
the souls of men and women, and
work was accomplished which you
could not believe, and men worked
and women worked, literally,
around the clock, day in and day
out, with so little sleep that it is
unbelievable. And they were happy
and healthy. And there was no end
to their faith, because they knew
what their job was, and that it must
be done.
The day before the night we closed
the Temple, Brother Stanford W.
Bird and Brother George R. Biesing-
er and I spent from 2:30 in the
morning until 4:00 to get the work
men out of the Temple.
They disliked seeing the Temple
closed. It was being prepared for
dedication. You could go from room
to room, from place to place, from
the basement to the top room in the
Temple, and you would find fami
lies weeping together, thanking God
for the privilege of working, and
asking Him never to let them be
away from a programme that would
help build the Kingdom of God.
Hundreds of people. We would take
them out of the Temple and we
would find them back again,
praying.
I listened to the prayer of one of
these men and his family. He
couldn t talk. It was my privilege to
assist in blessing this man when
he was called. I will divert for a
second to tell that story.
We were out getting labour mission
aries as we had been asked by Pres
ident Me Kay to do. He had said,
If you visit the Mission, do you
think you can get 20 adult men,
married men, a little more mature,
to help direct the boys?We said
we thought maybe we could. We
covered half the Mission and had
120 married men, not 20, but 120,
and we hadn t been through the
other half of the Mission at all. And
statements like this were being
made:
I have a truck, nine dairy cows, my
home, my milking machines. I ll give
it all to the Church and go as a
labour missionary.
And they did it. Literally, they did
it. Now' I want to impress upon this
assembled group that we are not
talking about a people different
from us. They are people who have
hearts, minds, love, strength, weak
ness; people who have to work to
live, and when they do not work
they do not eat, and when they
work, they do eat.
This man whom I have mentioned
gave up everything he had, his
home and all, and you couldn t
keep him from it. It happened like
this. While I was speaking to this
congregation, a woman leaned over
to her husband and said something
to him. There wras a note written.
Then she asked if she could say
something, and I said, Yes. She
said that right in the middle of my
talk. She wras just a girl >vhen I was
there as a missionary. She said,
Brother Mendenhall, I have felt
that the Spirit of the Lord has in
dicated to me that there is a blessing
in store for us. My husband is not a
builder at all. He is a fence-builder.
He fences paddocks to keep the
sheep and the cattle in. He has been
a member of the Church two years,
but he has never spoken a word in
all of his life. The Lord has said to
me, Take him on this mission and
he will speak.So we took him, and
we blessed him. And he came to the
mission.
Six months later, I came to New
Zealand in the month of June. It
was a cold, stormy night. Those of
you know what June is. He knew' I
was coming. He waited till midnight,
standing in the rain. As I got out of
the car, he grabbed my hand, and
threw his arm around me and
said, President Mendenhall, how
are you?
Six months after that, Brother Bird
heard that man talk in the sacra
ment service of the Church.
The night we took the people out
of the Temple, I went to the room
I mentioned before. There he was
with his wife in this room and they
were praying. I listened to their
plea never to separate them from
this programme, because of the
great blessing.
Now while he doesn t speak quite
as well as we do, these men can tell
you that he is understandable. He
became an accomplished carpenter,
and grew to great stature. A great
individual.
This went on in the lives of hun-
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dreds of people. Can you see why
these people are in the House of the
.Lord eight sessions a week? You
could not keep them out of the
House of the Lord, under any cir
cumstances. They give everything.
They sell their homes to go to work.
They do anything that is necessary
to be done. It is a magnificent thing
to begin to feel the strength of
simple faith.
I went to Tonga in the month of
January, after finishing a tremen
dous programme in those islands
a big hign school holding 600 stud
ents, dormitory facilities to go
with it, 21 houses for school teachers
to live in, all of the classrooms and
everything that goes with it, and
20 chapels on 17 islands, some of
them far away where they had to
swim the material in from the boat
to shore. There are no finer chapels
in this Church than you will see in
these islands. When I went back
there, I wanted to call some labour
missionaries to go to Hawaii, so we
called 31 young men. When the mis
sion president and the district
president and the branch president
came in, I asked the brethren how
many wer married. Thirteen of
them raised their hands. I said,
"How many of you married men are
willing to leave your wives for two
or two and a half years? Every
hand came up. The hand of the
youngest of the married men came
up and he said, President Menden
hall, I just got married today. Will
you give me a chance to tell my
wife?And he told his wife.
Thirty days later I went back to
make final arrangements with the
government for these people to go,
and I heard the branch president
speak. He said, Brother Menden
hall, we have taken care of every
one of these brethren s families, 13
of them. They will be properly
housed; they will be properly
clothed; they will be properly fed,
and taken care of 100 per cent for
two and a half years these men are
gone. And more than that, when
these boysmissions are finished,
we will have available the funds to
send their wives to the Hawaiian
Temple that they can go the House
of the Lord.
Would you believe it if I told you
that some of these people don t see
four single pound notes in one year?
(One Pound is worth approximately
$2.78.) But they will have the
money, for all 13 of these boys
wives. That has been assured.
We went to Samoa, and we called
another group of boys. To make a
story short, when they arrived in
Hawaii, 69 men filed from that one
Pan American plane, with photo
graphers and storywriters and five
or six hundred people on hand to
greet them.
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We took them through the Customs
Office and through the Bureau of
Immigration and through the Agri
culture Department, four various
departments, and when we finished,
every department head said, Mis
ter Mendenhall, in all of the years
that we have served, we have never
seen such a well conducted group
of young men in our lives . government will willingly pay me.
I talked to Brother Biesinger last
night, who is directing this great
programme. He said, Sixteen young
men will be in Hawaii on June 20,
and I have 30 more ready to leave
if you want them.
We have 200 more in the program
me besides. We are starting a chap
el in New Zealand every six to
eight weeks, and building them en
tirely. We are finishing up a great
programme in Samoa. One hundred
of these young men are working in
Hawaii with not a single paid man
on the job, with ten great super
visors such as you see in these fam
ilies here tonight.
Now these aren t unusual experien
ces. But I am convinced that is
where the Lord, wanted to start this
programme, just as convinced as
you see me standing here. Because
He started it with a people who had
the simple faith to do it. And I will
tell you that you can t go to a stake
of Zion, and I am not depreciating
the Church, but you can t go to a
stake of Zion, without the precedent
and the experience of this program
back of us, that would accept it
without a tremendous reservation.
There is no reservation in this pro
gramme. None at all. It has been
accomplished in five different lands,
under conditions which are nearly
impossible. And it is still rolling.
When these first men, 120 of them,
became labour missionaries, there
was no indication that there would
be a temple built. This was just
simply to build a school; no temple
involved. At four o clock one morn
ing, President Me Kay and I stood
on a hill, which is now known as
Temple Hill, and he overlooked the
place where we were building the
school. After he had meditated befo
re the Lord and reaffirmed the loca
tion as the place to build the temple
of God, he looked over and he saw
this magnificent work going on. He
put his arm around me and gave
me a squeeze I will never forget,
and he said, Oh Brother Menden
hall, do you realise that school is in
session now?He was thinking of
the volumes of workmen who were
being trained. And today if wre could
take all of the young men in these
Pacific Islands which we have train
ed, we could marshal 4,200 young
builders down the streets in front
of the office building in Salt Lake
City; bronze in colour, strength in
faith indescribable, men who would
give their lives for this great pro
gramme.
A few years ago in Samoa the
Church was without property, and
we couldn t find a place to build a
mission home. Then a part Chinese,
and part Samoan, by the name of
Oliver Amu said, I
ll give you my
property. It s worth $ 75,000. The
Its one of the only freehold pieces
of property there is around here.
But this is the work of the Lord.
Take my property. The Church
offered to pay, and he would not
take it.
Now I want you to listen to this.
Oliver Amu was called as a labour
missionary to come to our project,
and he brought with him six sons
and his wife and one little daughter.
The daughter is the result of a bles
sing that Matthew Cowley gave
them. Oliver Amu and Sister Amu
went to Brother Cowley and said,
We have six sons (you can read
this in his book) and we have no
daughters. Would you bless my wife
that we could have a daughter?
Brother Cowley laid his hands on
her head and blessed her. And this
is the daughter.
Brother Amu is a mechanic. He
came there, and he lived under con
ditions which are not right to des
cribe. Just in sort of a tent; not
even a tent; more or less palm leav
es over him to start with, and his
little family. Every boy served not
fewer than four years each as a la
bour missionary, and all of them at
once. Then he started to take time
out, and he sent one, after finishing
these years, over into the other
islands as a proselyting missionary.
Six sons. All of his property given
to the Church. And he is still there,
and still serving, for just the food
that he eats, and you couldn t chase
him off this project.
Instead of calling some men from
America, following the dedication
of the New Zealand Temple, it was
my privilege to represent the First
Presidency of the Church and set
apart 28 local supervisors who had
already served a labor mission, as
a result of their growth and develop
ment.
These stories are almost unbeliev
able. The men here will remember
that just a day or two before the
ground breaking ceremony of the
Temple, when I had been sent there
to represent the First Presidency,
and had been on a speaking tour
around the island, I had lost my
voice in the middle of a speech. The
next day I didn t have any voice at
all. My wife was with Sister Bird
and Sister Biesinger in Auckland. I
stayed home in bed. It didn t look as
though I was going to be able to
say a word at the ceremony.
That night about nine o clock, two
Maori boys came to my home, two
young men. They knocked on the
door, opened it and came in. They
didn t sit down and say, "Brother
Mendenhall, would you like us to
pray for you? Would you like us to
administer to you? Those two
young men walked in an said, We
have come to bless you, to heal you,
that you can speak tomorrow and
fulfil your assignment.There was
no reservation in their minds, none
at all. And they did just that.
The next morning when I went to
the Temple grounds, we got ready
to start the programme, and we
sang, "We Thank Thee, O God, for
a Prophet . I started to sing, but my
voice failed me. Then I looked over
to my right and here was one of the
two of those who had laid their
hands upon my head. He was under
a tree in prayer. And when I got up
to speak, my voice was as good as
you hear it now.
Our personnel director, before he
was called into the labour service,
had a big business. We met him on
the street one day, and I said, Sid,
we want you to come to work and
be the personnel director. If that
is what you want, I will come.And
he came, but he got deathly sick. I
didn t know what I had said when I
had set him apart as personnel di
rector, but two of his daughters who
were working, one of them for El
der Bird, took the blessing in short
hand. When I came back several
months later to New Zealand, I
think I can say this correctly, they
didn t know whether he would live
or not. He was very, very ill. They
sent one of the daughters up to see
me. I went down to the little cabin
where he was, and he was hardly
able to speak. He pointed up on top
of the shelf and his daughter
brought down this blessing that I
had given. I read it, and in that
blessing he was promised that he
would have health, and that he
would do his job. He said, You
gave me that blessing, Brother
Mendenhall, with your own lips and
under the Spirit of God. Now," he
said, "you lay your hands upon my
head, and you bless me that I may
be able to fulfill it.And I did. The
next morning he was working at his
office.
It is this kind of faith and it is the
experiences of this kind that we have
had that have made us strong. Out
of 165 or 166 supervising missionary
families that have been called from
the States, there has only been one
who did not accept his call. All of
them serving as you see these
people serving, and ready to serve
again, because it is a great segment
of the Church work.
When Brother Dunn and I came
over here, we came under the com
mission of the First Presidency of
the Church, set apart for our assign
ments, with the responsibility to
set in motion a programme that
would build churches and as we
built churches, we would also build
people, and cause that the people
would be equal to their task, a task
in which they would have equal res
ponsibility to perform.
We didn t have any pre-conceived
ideas of what to do. We didn t know.
I fought against this programme in
my own mind. I wasn t sure that
this was the programme that we
should have here. I have been
working in it so long that maybe
some people would think that I
could think of nothing else. It was
Brother Dunn who made the first
comment. I didn t. I restrained my
self. But as we went from place to
place, it was obvious what had to
be done. As a people in the Church
we must meet our responsibility,
and if are going to grow we must
give service, service equal to
other members of the Church where
ever they are. That way the Church
will grow and develop.
When we were in the Swiss Temple,
we went before the Lord. We had
then travelled part of Europe and
the programme had begun to take
form. It was very obvious, very de
finite, what should happen. Before
we got into Paris we talked to the
Authorities in Salt Lake City, and
we were authorised to go right
ahead. I learned then that that is
what had been expected would be
done.
When we came over here and tra
velled Great Britain, we had the
privilege of going before the Lord
again in the London Temple and
talking to Him about it. This had
been a tremendous thing. President
Dyer said, Brother Mendenhall, I
know this programme is what the
Lord wants, because the very min
ute that you start to talk about it,
your whole countenance changes . the Kingdom of God. There is no
We have seen people who are not
even members of the Church, dozens
of them, light up with a new light
and a new hope, with vision and
with understanding far beyond their
own in knowing what we want and
what we need to have. And we have
not found one area in which they
have not been fully cooperative.
Now I want to tell you this. This
programme could fail here, just as
it could fail in any other place, if
you want to listen to the adversary.
We had just as well face it right
now. I want to tell you and bear
you my humble testimony that I
have wrestled with the adversary
since I have been here. I have
wrestled with him mighty hard, be
cause the weight and burden of set
ting up a magnificent programme
which will strengthen the Church
and cause the Church to grow is not
what the adversary wants. He
would destroy it if he could, and he
would destroy Brother Dunn and
me if he could, and he will destroy
you if he can. He will darken the
minds of the branch presidents, and
he will darken the minds of the dis
trict presidents and their counsel
lors. He will darken the minds of
the people, unless the people have
simple faith. Simple faith, that is
what we have got to have. A faith
that tells us we can do it and a faith
and a will that fells us we wrill do
it. These are new words in the
vocabulary of the European Mission.
They are not new words in your
proselyting programme, but they
are in this work, because this is a
new programme.
We must be dedicated, and the Lord
will open the way. Those who will
strengthen themselves in this pro
gramme will grow and rise, and the
hearts of their employers will
soften, and changes will come, and
their homes will be increased, and
their larders will be filled, and their
stations in life will be changed as
the result of this kind of concentra
tion and faith. Latter-day Saints
must stand up and be counted before
God. I am sure that this is the
day, and if we can t stand up and
be counted and accept the program
me, then we cannot be counted
worthy to stand.
Now there is a great day ahead of
us in Europe, in this great proselyt
ing field, under the direction of
such wonderful leadership as you
have. We have men who are dedi
cated wholeheartedly to this cause.
We must be thoroughly convinced
of and dedicated to this inspired
programme, just as you are in your
proselyting programme.
It takes many programmes dove
tailed together to build the King
dom, and we are literally building
question about that. When every
branch president and every district
president, every mission president
and every member of the Church is
willing to give in sinew, in time
and in goods to do the thing that
the Lord wants done, then we have
passed the crucial test of the adver
sary, and we rise above it. Then
strength begins to come into our
souls and we manifest the power
that comes from heaven.
Now I leave this warning, that the
adversary could destroy this if we
would allow it. There is just no
question about it. Strange as it may
seem, the devil uses exactly the
same agency as does God. It is quite
a parallel, but it is the truth. You
can be an ambassador of righteous
ness and at the same time an emis
sary of the devil, because when your
faith wanes and you lose contact
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with heaven, you have immediately
become an agent of the adversary.
The adversary uses the same agent,
if he can prepare your mind so that
you are usable.
Now with consecration and with
dedication, this programme will go
forth. There is absolutely no fear.
We are organised to take care of
it. We can sleep well at nights. After
calling Salt Lake City last night,
we have supervisors who are ready
to come who speak the languages of
the various areas of Europe. All of
the time we have been here, we
GROUND BREAKING
LAPPEENRANTA BRANCH
The town of Lappeenranta, Finland
was the scene of the beginning of
the labour missionary program in
the Scandinavian area, where, on
July 3rd, 1961 mission leaders ga
thered for the official groundbreak
ing ceremonies of the Lappeenran
ta Branch chapel.
President John D. Warner, recently
released, presided at the special
meeting held at the chapel site. At
tending were Jyvaskyla District
President John V. Aalto, contractor
in charge of construction; Lappeen
ranta Building Supervisor Aarne
Ojala; Lappeenranta Branch Presi
dent Aleksanteri Peiponen, with his
counselors Elders Korteaho and So-
lassari. Reporting for work during
his summer vacation was Vaasa
branch President Rudolf Makinen
During the same day Elder Aimo
Jakko was set apart as the first
full-time labour missionary in the
Finnish Mission, following quickly
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have been working these contacts.
We have a great organisation to
handle the affairs of the growth of
the Church. We have over 1,200
buildings in process. They just keep
coming and coming and coming.
And many will be built here.
Now this programme does not start
fast. I want to warn you about it.
It starts slow, because you have to
build the people and build faith
and strength. But once it starts to
roll, you can t stop it.
May God bless each and every one
of us that we may have the spirit of
the next day with the setting apart
of Elder Taisto Jaaskelainen as the
second labour missionary called.
In the evening a special meeting
was conducted with the members of
the Lappeenranta Branch, during
which arrangements were made for
care of the full-time work mission
aries regarding food and housing.
The members of the priesthood
will donate their labour on evenings
and holidays, while the Relief So
ciety will provide meals at the site
of construction. During this time
they will be able to sell meals to
the non-members employed on the
construction and thus add to the
building fund reserve.
President Warner, who in two and
a half years has seen the construc
tion of four chapels in Finland, term
ed the response of the members
very, very favourable .
this work. As I have emphasised
here tonight, here sitting with us
are two men, Brother Stanford Bird
and Brother Haydn Andrew, who
have served for four and five years
in this programme and who are on
their way home, who have indicated
right now, with their families, a
willingness to be recalled back into
this service immediately. So may
God bless us that we may face up to
our responsibilities in launching
this great and important programme
in building the Kingdom of God I
humbly pray in Jesusname. Amen.
FINNISH MISSION
The town of Lappeenranta is just
sixteen miles from the Russian bor
der, and at one time some of the
people lived in an area which now
belongs to Russia. Even though they
live on the border of Russia they
are not Communist and do not
speak the Russian language.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
chapel as seen by the picture taken
nineteen days after ground brea
king
BRITISH A REA SU PER V ISO R

J. NIEL BRADLEY

John Neil Bradley was born April 5,

1920 at Shelley, Idaho. His parents
were Amos Melvin Bradley and
Hazel McGary. He attended Shelley
schools and served a proselyting
mission in the East Central States.
On his return in 1913 he was mar
ried in the Salt Lake Temple to
Edythe Yancey, daughter of James
H. Yancey ana Effie Jane Cobbley.
They lived in Shelley for almost
two years and then Elder Bradley
served in the Navy for 16 months.
Neil had five brothers and a sister-
in-law, besictes himself, who served
during the war. His younger brother
was killed at Pearl Harbor.
Neil returned from the service and
made a home in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
At this time he started in the build
ing business with his father-in-law.
They built many lovely homes and
a few chapels.
During this period, the Bradleys
were active in Church affairs.
Neil served as a counselor in the
mutual, on the Stake Sunday School
board, as a counselor in the
Bishopric, and then as Bishop of the daughters and five sons. Two sons addition of another bedroom and
Idaho Falls Sixth Ward. He held and one daughter died in infancy. bathroom. Todd Gordon was born,
this position for five years, at which Their oldest daughter, Joan who is and Sister Bradley s parents both
time the Bradleys moved into a new 17, will be a Senior at Bushy Park passed away within two months of
and larger home just outside of High School. She attended the local each other. Neil served on the South
Idaho Falls. school in New Zealand for a time, Idaho Falls Stake High Council and
Neil was serving as the Stake and was then privileged to attend Sister Bradley taught the Mia Maid
Young Mens Mutual President the Church College of New Zealand class in Mutual. In January, 1961,
when he and his father-in-law were for what is equivalent to ninth, and they sold their home and came to
called as labor missionaries to New part of tenth grades. England where Elder Bradley is
Zealand. They closed up their build Patricia Ann is 13 and has been Area Supervisor.
ing business and left for New attending school in Epsom at the There were no adult members of
Zealand in July, 1956. Convent of the Sacred Heart, but in the Church in Epsom when the
After working on the New September she hopes to start at the Bradleys arrived, but there are now
Zealand Church College for six American School or another English five adults and about fifteen young
months, Neil was called by Presi school. members, in addition to the Ameri
dent Mendenhall to be Elder Bies- Neil Reed is nine years old and is can families. A small branch has
ingers assistant in his work as also attending school at Bushy Park. been formed in Epsom and is about
head of the project. The Bradleys James Mark is three, and Todd Gor 65 members strong. Neil is serving
were happy to see the temple dedi don is one. Joan was born on Valen as Branch President at the present
cated and the Church School opened tines Day, Pat on St. Patricks Day, time.. Sister Bradley is a teacher in
in 1958. Neil then helped to super and Mark on New Year s Day in the Sunday School, Pat is Sunday
vise the Chapel Building Program New Zealand. School Secretary and a teacher in
which had just begun there. When After three years in New Zealand Primary.
the first Stake was organized in the Bradleys returned to their home Neil loves to fish, hunt and ski, and
New Zealand, he served on the in Idaho Falls where Elder Bradley Edythe enjoys sewing.
High Council. started in the building business The Bradleys are grateful for the
Sister Bradley served as a teacher again. The eighteen months the Gospel and for their family. They
in the Primary and as First Coun Bradleys spent in Idaho Falls be are thankful that their ancestors
selor in the Relief Society in New fore being called to Europe were accepted the Gospel in Europe. They
Zealand. She had held similar jobs very busy months. During this time are happy for the opportunity of
in Idaho Falls. they set up their own building coming to England to help the
Brother and Sister Bradley are the business again, completely redeco Saints obtain the chapels they have
parents of eight children, three rated their home, and also built an needed for so long.

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G E R M A N IC AREA A R C H IT E C T U R A L R EPRESEN TA TIV E
Arnold H. Ehlers was born in Ham
burg, Germany on Christmas day in
1901. He, with his parents and their
two other children, emigrated to
Zion when he was four years old.
Having a natural inclination to
draw, and his family being friends
of the Fetzer family, Arnold at age
17 was given the opportunity to en
ter the old architectural office of
Cannon and Fetzer in Salt Lake. At
age 19 he was called to return to
the land of his birth as a missionary.
He returned to Salt Lake in the
late summer of 1924 and met Thel
ma Erickson.. By the early part of
1926, having been steadily employed
as a draftsman since his return, he
had sufficiently returned to reality
that he suspected that two could
not live as cheaply as one so.he went
to Philadelphia to continue his
schooling and architectural training
while Thelma stayed home and
taught school. However, it was
lonesome back there by himself so
he returned a little over a year later
and he and Thelma were married.
Since it was early spring and Thelma
could not break her teaching con
tract, they remained in Salt Lake
until the end of the school year.
Then, after a delayed honeymoon
on the West Coast, they returned to
Philadelphia for two more years to
permit Arnold to complete his
schooling and to gain further exper
ience in the office of the noted
Gothesist, Chas. Z. Klauder. Here
also their first baby, Jack, was born,
who now too is an architect.
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ARNOLD H. EHLERS
Employment found the Ehlers in
San Francisco and Monterey the
next two and a half years, but when
the great depression brought buil
ding to a virtual standstill on the
coast by March of 1932, they retur
ned to Salt Lake. Two months later
their daughter, Elaine, was born.
For the last twenty-six years the
Ehlers family has lived in the same
house in the East Mill Creek sec
tion of Salt Lake as members of
four wards and three stakes. They
are currently members of the Gar
den Heights Ward, which chapel
was designed by Arnold. During
this time he served successively as
a stake missionary, as secretary
and in the presidency of his Seven
ties Quorum, as first counselor in
the Bishopric, counselor in the Stake
High Priests Quorum, and on the
Stake Melchizedek Priesthood Com
mittee. His wife has been a teacher
in the Sunday School, teacher and
counselor in the Primary, speech
and drama director in the Mutual,
and literature teacher and educa
tion counselor in the ward Relief
Society.
When work started up again after
the depression, Arnold entered the
office of Lorenzo S. Young in Salt
Lake and later became a member
of the firm. Except for the war
years, when Arnold worked for the
Army Engineers, this partnership
continued until eight years ago
when Arnold was asked to give up
his private practice and head the
A N D FAMILY
Architectural Department of the
Church. Since outstanding contracts
and uncompleted projects made this
awkward at the time, he was given
a years leave of absenceto com
plete his private work. Highland
High School was the last building in
this group.
His new assignment provided new
opportunities and considerable tra
veling. He visited New Zealand
twice in connection with the College
buildings as well as Suva in Fiji and
Australia to get the Church Build
ing Program under way there. One
of the most interesting trips, to Old
Mexico, was shared with Thelma.
As the Church Building Program
grew and the need for separate buil
ding areas arose, Arnold was named
Area Architect for the eastern half
of the United States and Canada.
This was his field of operation until
his transfer to Europe last fall. His
assignment as Architectural Super
visor of the Church Building Pro
gram in the German speaking coun
tries is a rare privilege and will
afford many new and interesting
experiences, not only for Arnold
and Thelma, but also for their
youngest daughter, Narda. Arnold
and Thelma have seven grand
children who are their main hob
bies.
BUILDING COMMITTEES!
This week we received a copy of
the Liverpool Ward Building Bul
letin. It tells of the progress being
made on the new chapel, and sug
gests ways and means of raising
money, along with other valuable
and inspirational information. We
congratulate those responsible for
the printing and circulating of this
Bulletin and would ask other Buil
ding Committees, Are you on your
toesas they are?
British Area Real hstate Representative
ST A N F O R D W . BIRD
Stanford Wilkins Bird, a High
Priest, was born in Provo, Utah,
September 20, 1907, the son of Or
son Gilbert Bird and Mary Jane
Wilkins. He was one of eight child
ren, six boys and two girls. He still
has five brothers living, all in Cali
fornia, and each one is active in
church assignments. Elder Bird is
about as American as one can be.
His parents, grandparents, great-
grandparents, and fourteen of his
sixteen great-great grandparents
were all born in the U.S.A. One of
these ancestors was the religious
captain of the Mayflower.
Stan went to New Zealand on a
mission in 1927 and returned in 1930.
Upon his return he met the girl
his younger brother had picked out
for him and married her two years
later. She was Blanche Ewing,
daughter of Porter Ewing and Clara
lone Thomas, born in Smithfield,
Utah, May 2, 1910. They were mar
ried in the Salt Lake Temple on
April 2, 1932. Blanche was one of
five children, four girls and one
boy. She still has three sisters living.
Her paternal grandparents were
pioneers who crossed the plains into
the Salt Lake Valley with Brigham
Young. Her maternal grandmother
was converted in England, and her
grandfather converted in Wales.
They migrated to the U. S. A. as a
result of joining the church.
After the Birds were married they
moved to Phoenix, Arizona where
their daughter, Rebecca Mary, was
born March 11, 1940. Becky, a Junior
And Family
Then home to the States for six
months where she attended Morn-
ingside High School. Then to Eng
land where she will be a Junior
this year at Bushy Park an American
Air Force high school. Her desire
now is to return to California for
her senior year and graduate from
Morningside High. Kathy was also
interested in the Maori arts while in
New Zealand and belonged to the
Church College Maori Concert Party.
She also participated in the prod
uction of All Faces Westwhen it
was presented in New Zealand with
Tgor Gorin portraying Brigham
Young.
Stan has worked in scouting direct,
or through the MIA for twenty
at the BYU this year, has just receiv years. He served as Chairman of the
ed the biggest thril of her life, Centinela District for three years
a mission call to the Scotch-Irish and was on the Los Angeles Council
Mission. She goes into the mission for six years. He has been Super
home on August 14, 1961. Becky intendent of the MIA in the Phoen
accompanied her parents to New ix and Inglewood Wards, Stake
Zealand on their labor mission and Activity Counselor of the Maricopa
became very proficient in the Poly Stake MIA, Stake Superintendent
nesian arts. She was the first Ame
rican girl in New Zealand to learn
to do the Double Long Poi, a very
difficult Maori action dance, and
eventually learned the Triple Long
Poi. At one time she performed for
the Prime Minister of New Zealand,
and the first year she was at the
BYU she led the Kia Ora, a Maori
club, traveling to various areas to
put on a concert for schools and
clubs. Becky was majoring in Phy
sical Education at the BYU and ex
pects to return and finish her edu
cation at the conclusion of her pro
selyting mission.
The Bird s second daughter, Kath
leen Moana, was born in Inglewood,
California, December 10, 1945, after
her parents had moved back to Cal
ifornia. Kathy has a Maori name
because her father, as a young mis
sionary in New Zealand, had learned
to love the beautiful Maori language
as well as the wonderful Maori
people and Kathy with her dark of the Inglewood Stake MIA as well
hair and eyes reminded him of as Superintendent of the Inglewood
Maoriland. Moana means beauti Ward Sunday School, and High
ful still water . Kathy has had Councilman of the Inglewood Stake.
quite a varied education five He was appointed Inglewood Stake
years in New Zealand where she Representative to the Southern Cal
attended English schools as well as ifornia Regional Program In De
the Church College of New Zealand. linquent Preventionand in caring
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for unadjusted youth of the church.
When the Auckland, New Zealand
Stake was organized he was put into
the Stake Presidency, and at pre
sent is the senior member of the
London Stake High Council.
Blanche s church activities include:
Gleaner President, MIA Activity
Counselor in Phoenix and Ingle
wood Wards, MIA President of
Inglewood and Morningside Park
Wards, Inglewood Stake Gleaner
leader, teacher in Primary, Junior
Sunday School and Relief Society.
At present she is Secretary of the
London Stake YWMIA. She used to
be very active also in P.T.A. and
hospital auxilaries. She loves to
cook, entertain, read and sew.
Elder Bird s particular work on the
European Building Program is to
acquire properties on which to build
chapels in the British Isles, England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland, part of
France and Switzerland. He loves
music and has been the director of
many youth choruses and choirs.
One can find him any evening he is
at home (which is very seldom these
days) listening to his Stereo machine,
particularly tapes he has made him
self while in New Zealand.
The following article appeared in
the Inglewood Stake News in
August 1960:
Elder Stan Bird, his wife, Blanche,
and their two daughters, Becky and
Kathy, are in our midst again for a
short time. They have been away on
a foreign mission for five years, re
turned last month and leave again
next month for another foreign mis
sion for an undetermined period. It
could happen to you!

G R O U N D BREAKING

LIVERPOOL W ARD
A beautiful, modern chapel is to be
erected in Liverpool, England!
Ground breaking was held on 22
July 1961, just 124 years and 2 days
after first missionaries arrived from
America to preach the gospel. On 20
July 1837, seven Mormon mission
aries, all of British descent, arrived
aboard the packet ship Garrickat
Liverpool. They were without pur
se or scriptand among these seven
were John Taylor and Heber C.
Kimball.
They immediately made their way
to the nearby manufacturing town
of Preston, Lancashire, and there
within 24 hours, were invited to
speak in the local Vauxhall Chapel
before a large congregation; the first
Mormon sermon delivered on British
soil. Many were touched by the
spirit of the meeting and ten days
later on 30 July 1837, nine British
converts were baptized in the river
Ribble, a picturesque stream which
flows through the heart of Preston.
Between 7,000 and 9,000 people ga
thered on the banks of the river
to witness the ceremony and to see
nine of their countrymen become
members of the church.
Thus, Liverpool and nearby Preston
share the distinction of the start of
Mormonism in the British Isles.
How fitting that a lovely new chapel
will be built by the Saints of Liver
pool Ward at Summerfield, the
name of the lovely old estate where
they have been meeting since its
acquisition in 1952. It is situated at
Queen s Drive and Millbank, the
junction of two main roads, one
leading through and the other lead
ing across the City of Liverpool.
It was with mixed emotions that
about eighty faithful Saints gather
ed on the garden lawn to witness
ground breaking Clouds had
threatened but at about 2:00
p.m. the sun peeped out , the day
was warm and bright adding to the
enjoyment of the momentous occa
sion. It seemed as though the Lord
was smilingdown on them.
Services were presided over by
President Roy C. Caddick, First
Counsellor of the Manchester Stake
Presidency. A. J. Cubbon, Bishop of
Liverpool Ward, conducted. The
opening song The World Has Need
of Willing Menwas led by Brother
Butler after which opening prayer
was offered by Michael Nugent.
Words of encouragement were spo
ken by Elder Steven T. Baird, Ar
chitectural Representative, followed
by remarks of Elder J. Neil Brad
ley, Area Supervisor, who said that
beautiful people would be built as
well at a beautiful edifice in which
to worship God.
The Architect, Ivan Johnston of Li
verpool, told of his eagerness to see
the structure progress and be
completed. Elder F. Oliver Grundvig
spoke of the joy the members would
receive in building a House Unto
the Lordout of the pile of rubble
now in view.
President Caddick was the first
speaker and expressed a deep testi
mony of the work and sentiment
Manchester Stake
about Liverpool, the place of his
birth.
Bishop Cubbon exhibited a chrome-
plated blade shovel for the ground
breaking, afterwards to be inscribed
with names of doners and kept as
a souvenir. The first shovel of earth
was turned over by President Cad-
dick, followed by Elder Bradley,
Bishop Cubbon, Elder Baird, Ivan
Johnston, Elder Grundvig and Sis
ter Stevens, President of the Liver
pool Ward Relief Society.
All sang with fervor and gratitude
High on the Mountain Top . Clo
sing prayer was given by Victor
Shepherd.
The loyal members of Liverpool
Ward are looking "to the future
when there will be more than one
Ward and hope they may be privi
leged to name their Ward
Summer-
field Ward .
Thank God every morning when
you get up that you have something
to do which must be done, whether
you like it or not. Being forced to
work, and forced to do your best,
will breed in you temperance, self-
control, diligence, strength of will,
content, and a hundred other virtues
which the idle never know.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

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British Area Treasurer
LEWIS W. MOORE
The call to come to the British Isles
and participate in the Church
Building Program came to the
Moores the 23rd of January, 1961.
On the 19th of February they left
their home in the Hollywood
Riviera, Redondo Beach, California
and flew out of Los Angeles to
spend three days in New York City
before flying on to London.
It was 4 : 30 a.m., the 24th of Febru
ary, when they landed at the North
London Airport, and it was raining
as only it can rain in London. They
were met by Elder J. Neil Bradley
who took them to the home of Elder
and Sister Andrew where wrarm
beds awaited.
When the call came to the Moores,
with less than a month to arrange
their affairs, it seemed impossible;
but they had faith that the way
would be opened, and it was. Every
thing worked out as if it had been
planned for years, and it certainly
did add to their testimonies that this
was the work of the Lord.
Elder Lewis William Moore was
born in Syracuse, Davis County,
Utah, the third child in a family of
O ffice Manag er
three boys and two girls. His parents
were faithful Latter-Day Saints. His
mother s people were among those
who left Nauvoo, Illinois and came
west with the saints under the
command of the Prophet Brigham
Young. His father s parents were
converts from West Frankfort, Ill
inois.
When Elder Moore was yet a small
boy, his parents purchased a farm
at East Garland, Box Elder County,
Utah where they made their home
until he was in high school. They
then moved to Garland, Utah where
his father was engaged in the mer
cantile business. Elder Moore grad
uated with the first graduating
class from the Bear River High
School. He later attended business
college at Pocatello, Idaho.
The senior class at Bear River High
School took their senior class play
to Malad City, Idaho for present
ation, and it was there he met Pearl
Christensen who is now his wife.
Pearl Christensen Moore was born
at Malad City, Oneida County,
Idaho, the fifth child of a family of
eight. Her folks were not members
of the church, but she attended the
L.D.S. Church more than any other
and knew that some day she would
be a member.
After graduation from high school
Elder Moore went to California and
Sister Moore went to college at
Pocatello, Idaho. She later taught
school for three years before they
were married. On the 7th of May,
1927, they were married at Malad
City, Idaho and went to American
Falls, Idaho where they made their
first home together. Elder Moore
later went to work with Western
States Grocery Company and was
moved several times in the next ten
years. They were sent to Boise,
Idaho in 1938, and lived there until
1955 when they moved to Califor
nia.
Sister Moore was baptized a mem
ber of the church in 1928, and they
were married in the Salt Lake
Temple in 1939. Elder Moore has
served in Sunday School and M.I.A.
Superintendencies, as Elders Quo
rum President, Geneology Chairman
and in bishoprics for many years.
He was released as Bishop of Boise
And Family
Third Ward at the time they moved
to California. In California he was
a Stake Patriarch.
Sister Moore has served as Primary
teacher, both in Stake and Ward,
Relief Society and Mutual President
and as a Stake Relief Society
worker for many years.
They have two sons, Sherrel Lewis,
who is married to Lorna Hender
son of Draper, Utah, and who have
one son, Sherrel Lewis Jr., six years
old. They live at Redondo Beach,
California. Their other son, Neal
Clayne, is married to Ann Laird of
Lincoln, Nebraska. They have an
eleven month old daughter and live
at Phoenix, Arizona.
Elder Moore was in the accounting
business in Boise, Idaho for many
years before moving to California.
Here again he had an accounting
practice at Redondo Beach.
At the present time, he is Treasur
er of the Church Building Depart
ment, British Area, and Patriarch
of the London Stake.
Hobbies are their two grandchil
dren. They both love to read and
enjoy photography and gardening.
They are very thrilled with the call
to serve in the building program,
and are finding their lives filled
with many interesting experiences.
NEW MISSION CREATED
The creation of the new Berlin
Mission makes a total of five mis
sions in Germany. This left the
North German Mission without
headquarters. Elder Kenneth Bie-
singer located several available sites
which were then inspected jointly
by Presidents Dyer and Fetzcr, and
Elders George R. Biesinger and
Alma Gygi. A home at Dorpfeld-
strasse 34 was selected and pur
chased.
It is in a fine residential area in
Hamburg, of brick construction,
modern design and in very good
condition. The grounds front two
beautiful streets lined with trees
and shrubs. Now- vacant, it is in the
process of being renovated for
President Howard C. Maycock, his
wife, Mary, and sons, Neil and
Gregory. Elder Hans Jensen is
Supervisor of project.
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 issionary Sllf >ervisor
British Area Labor Mu
Ralph E. Lane was born in San
Marcial, New Mexico, the son of
William Grant and Jessie Pearl
Roseberry. He attended elementary
school in San Marcial and had one
year of high school at Compton, Cal
ifornia. He served four years ap
prentice-ship as a machinist with
the Santa Fe Railroad and then
worked for the Apache Lumber
Company in Cooley, Arizona where
he had his first contact with the
Church. His father was a contractor
and builder. In 1928 he came to
California where he worked for
thirthy-three years for the U. S.
Government as Master Mechanic of
Public Works in charge of all main
tenance, construction and repairs at
the U. S. Naval Air Station, Ala
meda, California, which is the larg
est Naval Air Station in the United
States.
He is a veteran of World War I
and held the rank of Captain in the
Army Engineer Corps Reserve. In
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RALPH E. LANE
And Family
at Provo, Utah. The two older child
ren, Dorothy and William, are
married and live in California. Dor
othy is Secretary to the Vice Pres
ident of the Bank of America and
lives in Oakland and Bill, who is a
graduate of the University of Cali
fornia, is an architect and lives in
Berkeley. The Lanes have two
lovely little granddaughters.
Ralph has been Superintendent of
the YMMIA, Sunday School Super
intendent, Sunday School Stake
Board member, Second Counselor
in the Bishopric, Building Commit
tee Chairman during construction
of the Alameda Chapel, General Sec
retary of the Senior Aaronic Priest
hood, Stake Board member of the
Senior Aaronic Priesthood, and
First Counselor in the Bishopric.
1920 he married Lena Frost who Erma had been a Primary and Sun
died in 1936 leaving two children, day School teacher; President and
Dorothy Jean and William A. Lane. Attendance Secretary of the YW-
Ralph was baptised into the Church MIA; Relief Society Teacher, Secre
in the Mesa Temple in 1935. tary and Visiting Teacher.
Before coming on this mission they
Erma was born in Salt Lake City, lived at 2002 Harvard Drive, Ala
Utah, the daughter of John C. and
Mary Edmonds Manning. She atten meda, California.
ded elementary schools in Kaysville
and Farmington, Utah and grad
uated from the Davis County
High School in Kaysville. She then
attended L.D.S. Business College
in Salt Lake City and worked as a
secretary in Salt Lake for two years.
Later she worked in the County
Agent s Office at the Court House
in Farmington.
Ralph and Erma met through a mut
ual friend and most of their court
ing was done by mail. They were
practically engaged before they had
actually seen each other, as Erma
lived in Farmington, Utah and
Ralph in Los Altos, California. They
have always felt that truly the
Lord had a hand in bringing them
together. They were married in
Kaysville on June 27, 1940 and re
ceived their endowments in the
Salt Lake Temple October 5, 1945.
With them in England is daughter
Joyce, 13, while Patricia, 18, is at
tending Brigham Young University
British Labor Missionary Supervisor
LAWRENCE WORTLEY
Lawrence Wortley was born in
Sheffield. York County, England,
January 4, 1900, the son of George
Wortley and Agnes Brown. Law
rence s mother often took in lodgers
and boarded them. One day two
Mormon missionaries applied at her
door for accommodations. At this
time th^ Wortleys had heard nothing
about Mormonism good or bad.
(There were many wild talesin
circulation at that time, but the
Wortleys had not heard them.) The
missionaries were taken to their
room and were surprised to find
a picture of the Salt Lake Temple
on the wall. Upon inquiry they
learned that Mrs. Wortley had
bought the picture because she
thought it was pretty.
As time went on the Wortleys be
came interested in the message of
the missionaries, and on September
12, 1907, the parents and four child
ren were baptized. Lawrence was
one of the four. The other two were
baptized later.
In 1910 the family migrated to
America and made their home in
Salt Lake City. It was in the schools
there that Lawrence was closely
associated with Spencer Cornwall
and received musical training on
the violin and in conducting. Music
has played an important part in his
life; he has conducted many ward
choirs and choruses, and played in
symphony orchestras. Listening to
good music is as necessary to his
welfare as eating proper foods.
He moved to Garland, Utah, where
he met May King, whom he married.
To them were born four girls and
one boy; but May died shortly af
ter her son was born, and he died
six months later. The four daughters
are now married with families of
their own. They are Agnes Aamodt,
Silver Spring, Maryland : Elizabech
Evans, Citrus Heights, California;
Ruth Schmetcr, Anaheim, Califor
nia and Alice May Buxton, Tremon-
ton, Utah. All are active in the
church. There are sixteen grand
children (whom the Wortleys miss
very much.)
Lawrence was employed several
years by the Utah-Idaho Sugar
Company and was sent to various
parts of the United States in factory
construction. He left this company
in 1930 to work on the Boulder Dam
in Nevada. He was a carpenter fore
man on this project and also on the
Shasta Dam in Redding, Califor
nia.
It was in Redding that he met Elsie
Johnson, who was teaching in the
Shasta Union High School. They
were married in the Salt Lake
Temple on October 3, 1945.
Always active in the church, Law
rence has served as chorister or or
ganist in practically every branch
or ward he has lived in . . . and they
are many. He has also held many
executive positions. He was instru
mental in "rounding upthe Mor
mons scattered in and around Boul
der so that a church organization
could be effected. He was the first
Branch President there, and later
became the first Bishop of Boulder.
When he moved to Redding there
were only a few church members,
presided over by missionaries. His
previous experiences in church
work, his leadership ability, and his
unusual energy stimulated the spirit
of growth, and in a very short time
Redding had a thriving branch of
devoted members who built a beau
tiful chapel against overwhelming
odds. He served as Branch President
And Family
of Redding and later as President
of the Shasta District.
It was largely through his efforts
that the building program was estab
lished in the Northern California
Mission then under the direction of
German E. Ellsworth. He supervised
the chapel building in Klamath
Falls, Oregon, and in Redding, An
derson, Orland, and Fresno, Cali
fornia. These were all in the
Northern California Mission.
Elsie Johnson Wortley was born in
Benjamin, Utah, December 23, 1896,
the daughter of John Johnson and
Edla Lundell, converts from Sweden
and parents of nine children. She
graduated from the Brigham Young
University and received her Mas
ters degree from the University of
California. She has had twenty-eight
years of teaching experience in the
public schools and two years in the
Church College of New Zealand.
Her work in the church has been
principally in the teaching field, hav
ing held teaching positions with
out a break since she was fourteen.
(Her first teaching assignment was
a class in Primary). She has also
served on Stake Boards in Nebo,
Tooele, Berkeley, and Gridley
Stakes in Sunday School and
M.I.A. work.
She is happiest when teaching
the Gospel in Ward or Branch or
ganizations.
In November 1956, the Wortleys
were called to serve a labour mis
sion in the Pacific area; they spent
two years in Hawaii and then two
years in New Zealand. In both
places they were temple ordinance
workers, to them an outstanding ex
perience.
They were released after four years
of service and arrived home in Red
ding, California, in January, 1961,
with plans to build a home and
settle down to regular life. But on
February 28 they were called by the
First Presidency to come to Eng
land to help in the building pro
gram. Upon arriving in London
June 5 they were assigned to Roch
dale. The Wortleys are happy in
their assignment and work in Roch
dale. They feel that their good
health and well being are great
blessing to them. Most of all they
appreciate being members of the
greatest church in the world and
feel that the opportunity to serve
in it is a privilege.
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Danish Labor Missionary Supervisor
MARTINUS ANDERSEN
And Family
Now it came to pass that my time
did draw to a close in the pre-exist
ence, and I was ushered into the
world of mortality in the year of
our Lord 1900. And it was on the
19th day of October, in the fall of
the year. It was cold and they did
clothe me and prepare me for an
indefinite stay with my parents.
And my parents were of goodly
common working stock. Now it
came to pass that my father had
been called Anders Peter, son of
Andreas Andersen, and so by cus
tom he was called by the surname
of Andreassen. And it came to pass
that a couple living in the town of
Hals, a little village in the land
of Denmark, also were blessed of
the Lord with a girl child and she
was called Mathilda, she being of
the household of Lars Espen Ander
sen and his good wife, Hansine Han
sen. Now it happened as these
young people worked in the fields
together they did become attracted
to each other and they did marry
and raise a large family.
I was born the eleventh child of
this union and I was called Martin-
us after the brother of my mother.
And so began the mortal existence
that I have learned to love, although
it has been clouded with many trials
and difficulties.
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year 1902, on the eleventh of the
month called November. And she
was born of a loyal pioneer heritage
who gave their all for the establish
ment of The Gospel in Zion. But
alas, and notwithstanding the fact
that she was born in Idaho, in a
little village called Basalt in the
United States of America, and I was
born in Denmark, we did meet in
our school years in Burley, Idaho
and did fall in love.
Now it came to pass that the Bishop
of the Unity Ward did think to
make use of me before I should
marry and settle down. And he did
issue a call and I was sent to the
Northern States where I filled an
honorable mission for over two
years. I was called to the respon
sible position of Conference Presid
ent, and I did tremble under the
responsibility of that office, but I
was blessed of the Lord, and many
wonderful thing I was able to do.
Now it came to pass that Elizabeth
had finished her schooling during
this period and had become a school
Now it came to pass that through teacher, but I did persuade her and
the years after the Gospel was res we did marry in the House of the
tored, the land of Denmark was Lord at Salt Lake City in the year
invaded by missionaries of the 1923, on the 'third of the month
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- called October. Through the years
Day Saints. One of these was a that followed we did have a family
brother of my father, and he did of six children, and their names
warn my people of the Lord s plan were according to their ages, Betty
to prepare his people for an eternal June, Pauline Sarah, Alice Joyce,
home. And my parents did believe Victor Ward, Glen Martinus and
the Gospel and because of this they Lorna May, and they did all marry
were disowned by friends, relatives well and we are now blessed with
and the Priest of the Lutheran twenty-six grandchildren.
Church, of which they were mem We did live through the years in
bers. And it came to pass that they many cities, being called Burley,
did accept the Gospel and did cross Idaho; San Diego, Encinitas, Chula
the great waters and did go to the Vista, Carlsbad, and Vista, Califor
land of America where they were nia, and in Arizona in the cities of
permitted to teach their children Globe and Scottsdale. In all these
without being molested. There were places the servants of the Lord
other children born to my parents did call us to positions of responsi
until they did number sixteen in all. bility in His Church. Now I did
Our first abode in the land of "Zion labor as Sunday School and Stake
was a small community by the name Mutual Superintendent, Branch
of North Point, Utah. And there my President three different times, Dis
father did till the soil and became trict President of the South Coast
a farmer. District for eight and a half years,
Now, inasmuch as a history is pub and which is now known as the
lished eleswhere concerning my Palomar Stake, Counselor in the
people, I will confine my remarks Genealogical Committee of the
here to matters dealing with myself Holladay Stake, and in Globe, Ari
and my good wife, Elizabeth. She zona, Teacher in Genealogy and
being the fifth child in a family of other organizations. And my wife,
twelve, born to Daniel Ward Collett Elizabeth, did labor in the Church
and Sarah Lottie Phillips in the as Primary President, Relief Socie-
1y President twice and District Re Arizona. My good wife did work are in store for the faithful.
lief Society President, on the Gen with me and we did labor until it We have learned through the years
ealogical Committee in the Hol- was completed and the people were to be thankful for opportunities to
laday and in Globe, Arizona and made very happy. serve the Lord and have gained a
Phoenix Stake, Phoenix, Arizona, Now it did come to pass that we did vision of the great good that can
and as a teacher in various organi receive instructions from Brother and will come from the Building
zations. Peterson to transfer our tools to Program and we do pledge our sup
Now my labors in the Building Pro supervise the building of a Church port to the same. Now according to
gram of the Church did come about House in Phoenix, Arizona known instructions we did arrive in Am
in this fashion. It was in the year as the Eighteenth and Fifteenth sterdam from Los Angeles, Califor
1948 and after having worked hard Wards in the East Phoenix Stake. nia aboard the Scandinavian Air
in the grocery business during the And we did progress with that Lines and were met by Elder and
great war, I did become very tired, building insomuch that we did finish Sister Rosenvall on June 2, 1961.
and I was commanded by my doctor the roof and were to begin the finish And it did come to pass that we
to rest. work inside when without warning were assigned to labor for a time
And it did come to pass that the servants of the Lord did send with Elder Glen Lybbert. And now,
while I rested I decided to change a call for us to go to Denmark as behold, we do offer up our prayers
my profession. And so I did com- Labor Missionaries. Now there was daily unto the Lord that he might
mense to work with a hammer and much temporal sacrifice involved in bless this Program to succeed to
saw and I did in time become a accepting this call, but we did real gether with all those who labor in
builder. Through the years as we ize that great spiritual blessings this service. Amen!
labored in the mission field in the
State known as California we did
attract many of our neighbors and
the military people to participate in
the Church, ana we began to need
Church Houses in which to worship.
And we sought the help of the Lord,
and the Church did come to our
aid and we did build buildings of
worship in the cities of Escondido
and Solona Beach and we did desire
to build in Oceanside, California.
We did again seek the help of the
Lord and through the Church I was
appointed Construction Superintend
ent and with the help of the local
members and the men of the mili
tary service we did labor in love
and unity. And we did have In
dians and Hawaiians and Samoans
who did labor in our crew. And the
women did feed and house them
and did labor also on the building.
Now it did come to pass that after
the Church House was completed
that I did take my family to Salt
Lake City, Utah where I did Con
tract Business and Genealogical Re
search and Temple Work. But alas I
did long to be back with the Build
ing Program. I made my wants
known to the Brethren and was Vidor and Sister .Marlinus Mndersen and their C O M P L E T E Jamdy group.
appointed to supervise the construct
ion of the Ward building in Globe, (If any o f you can top' this, we will he glad to print it)

Interesting H a p p e n in g s
WORMS, WEST GERMANY: Pro
perty was purchased in Worms with
the understanding from the city
that a church could be erected on
the site. The mayor made an about
face and refused to record our deed.
Under pressure he finally relin
quished and had it recorded. We
are, however, still trying to get per
mission to erect a church. From the
information we can gather pressure
is being exerted by other churches
to keep us from building.
MINDEN, CENTRAL GERMANY:
The property we are offered in Min-
den is wanted by both the Catholic
and Protestant Churches. Officials
of the city said they wrould be on
the spot no matter which one
they granted permission to build
a church on the site, and so they
were very desirous that we build
there to solve the controversy.
LANDSHUT, SOUTH GERMANY:
A real estate agent was appointed in
Landshut to search for a building
site. He later called and said he was
a Catholic and didn t want us to
have a church there so he had
decided not to try to find one for us.

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Norway Labor Missionary Supervisor
PAUL T. HANSEN
Elder Paul T. Hansen was born in
1911 in Soi-Odal, Norway. He joined
the church in 1947 and went to Salt
Lake City in 1951 where he resided
ALL IN A DAY
HEADACHES
If you think you are having a hard
time learning the language think
of Elder DeBry, Treasurer of the
Scandinavian area, who received an
invoice the other day from Finland
with the following word printed
on it:
satakahdeksankymmentayksituhat-
tanelj asataakahdeksankymmentak-
aksi. (For answer to the meaning of
this word, look on Page 22).
One doesn t have to go to Finland
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in the McKay Ward, Wells Stake,
until being called on his labor mis
sion.
He has been engaged in construction
to find long words. Notice the name
of a Holland Insurance Company:
Dordrectschealgemeenelevensver-
zekeringmaatschappaaij.
If you see Elder DeBry staring out
into space with a blank look on his
face, you will know why.
MEMORIES
A marvelous new passenger plane
takes off from Los Angeles. As it
And Family
work for the past thirty years as a
carpenter and also as a foreman and
supervisor having graduated from a
construction school in 1946. After
emigrating to Utah he worked as
a carpenter on various construction
jobs and in cabinet factories.
His church activity has been mainly
in genealogy where he has been
active in research and temple
work for his own family and has
given much help to others as well.
He has also been a ward teacher
and member of the boy scout com
mittee. He holds the office of a
Seventy in the Melchezidek priest
hood.
Sister Aase M. Hansen was born in
Oslo, Norway in 1917 and joined the
church in 1949. She married Brother
Hansen in 1950 and in 1952 they
were married in Salt Lake Temple.
Their family consists of four boys,
Jan 10, Paul 8, Jerry 6, and Fred 4.
Sister Hansen has also been active
in research and temple work.
They are happy to be back in the
land of their birth, a thing they
never thought possible.
They are surprised to see how
the church has grown in
numbers and are happy to be a part
of the great building program.
They also hope to be able to do
some missionary work among family
and friends. They send the follow
ing message: We find the mem
bers in good spirit and anxiously
awaiting their first new chapel.
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Ground Breaking
WEST HARTLEPOOL
The West Hartlepool Speakerin
a British newspaper article, report
ed on the Ground breaking cere
mony of the West Hartlepool Branch
chapel as follows:
The 150 members of the West Hart
lepool Branch of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
start next Saturday on the building
of a new 55,000 church in Catcote
Road, West Hartlepool. Under the
direction of skilled men the mem
bers hope to have the church finish
ed within a year.
When completed, the church
will house a chapel, cultural
hall, and teaching areas. The site
covers 7,600 square feet. The article
also gave a summary of speakers
and excerpts from their messages.
Actual work was begun on the
chapel site on July 8, 1961 and is
progressing satisfactorily as of this
date. The ground has been leveled
off and top soil stock piled. The ex
cavation for footings and drainage,
baptismal font and steeple is 30 %
completed. The tool house and office
is built and is very comfortable.
Two labor missionaries arrived on
July 15. Elders Arnold Jones and
T. Leighton Jones (no relation)
from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
They are fine, energetic young men
and are already taking an active
part in the Branch.
The brethren and boys of the
Branch are supporting the building
work very well and much apprecia
tion is expressed to the men from
Peter Lee Branch for their help.
Two or three of them come down
every Saturday and sometimes dur
ing the week and give willingly of
their time and talents.
Branch President John Dale con
ducted the ceremony for ground
breaking of the West Hartlepool
Chapel. After the opening song,
"Come, Come Ye Saints , the
opening prayer was offered by Bro
ther Ken Goddard.
The following remarks were made
by speakers at the ceremony:
President John Dale: Thanks to all
non-members who have helped thus
far. Our new chapel will be the
means of the conversion of many
as they see the right way of living
by observing our actions. L.D.S.
North British Mission
stands for something else besides
Latter-Day Saints it stands for:
LET S DO SOMETHING . becoming a reality. It is my belief,
Elder Ralph E. Lane (Construction
Supervisor): The Building Program
of the Church is inspired of God.
The Lane family will be one of you
and if we will all cooperate much can
be accomplished. Next Saturday is
the first work meeting to begin
cleaning of the lot. All are invit
ed to come and help, women and
children as well as the men.
President J. Laurie (Branch Presi
dent): Selection of this lot was in
answer to prayer. The Lord has said,
"I am the Good Shepherd and you
are my sheep . This is a wonderful
privilege to build this Chapel and
we will all be proud to know we
had a hand in it.
Patriarch Lewis Moore: We find the
same sweet spirit among the saints
wherever we go. This is an oppor
tunity for each one, and you will
find your testimonies are increased
and your numbers will be strength
ened. We should be thankful for this
opportunity to work in unity in
unity we can accomplish a great
deal. This building is being erected
to the Glory of God. I bear my
testimony to the truthfulness of this
great work.
Are you your brother
s keeper?
Members of the Peter Lee branch
Mr. T. Robertson (Architect): It will
be gratifying to see the pencil sketch
after observing churches being built,
that the Mormon churches are being
built, not for the glory of the archi
tect, but for the Glory of God.
Elder Neil Bradley (Area Supervi
sor): IT CAN BE DONE. We are
here in this life to be tried and test
ed. This is our opportunity to be
tested. Live the program and it will
work for you.
President F. W. Oates: We are all
brothers and sisters. We build
churches so mankind may work out
his salvation. The Lord is with us.
There will be many faith-promoting
experiences in the construction of
this chapel. It is most important that
we consider our ways this day .
The Lord said: Work, be strong and
I am with you, be humble and
pra3mrful and I am with you .
President F. W. Oates officiated in
the ground breaking, following
which President Laurie, Patriarch
Moore and Elder Bradley each turn
ed over a spade full of earth.
Closing prayer 'was offered by
Brother John Butcher. A social was
held following the ceremony.
offering help to
West Hartlepool branch.
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BRITISH A REA
/ lo c a l / la b el A titeionatles
BARRY F. LEE
Born on January 8, 1943, eighteen
year old Barry F. Lee is now serv
ing a labour mission working on
the Reading Chapel. Born in Roch
dale Hospital, Essex, his first home
was in Leigh-on-Sea. While there
he went to Chalkwell School. At
the age of eight he moved, with his
parents, to another district and there
attended Eastwood Junior School
for one year. From there he went
to Blenhem Junior School for two
years. It was while he was attend
ing this school that two lady mis
sionaries came to their home and
introduced them to the Gospel. A
year later, on November 14, 1953,
Barry, his brother, and his mother
were baptized by Elder Edwin V.
Adams. They were then confirmed
by Elder Frank E. Young. Four
years later Barry s father was bap
tized.
After attending Eastwood Senior
School for four years he went to
London to work. He worked in a
tailoring factory for a year and then
went to Bosildon to work.
Barry began his labour mission
on the 19th of June of this year. He
had attended the corner-stone
laying, ground-br-eaking, and dedi
cation of the London Temple.
There he saw the Prophet, President
David O. McKay. He saw President
Me Kay again at the dedication of
the Hyde Park Chapel. Barry said
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of the Prophet, It seems that every
time I see him his body is older, but
you look into his eyes and you see
that they glow with the Spirit of
God.
Barry s mother was to sing and tour
with the Singing Mothers when they
were in England, but was unable to
because of a car accident. Barry
says that when they went to the
Royal Albert Hall his mother sang
all of the songs silently along with
them and with tears in her eyes,
because she wanted to be with them.
Barry s older brother is an Elder
and has been married in the temple.
His sister is now eight years old
and was baptized this year by his
father.
Barry s hobby was to keep pigeons
but he has since given that up.
ERNEST ALKER
Ernest Alker was born October 21,
1944 in Wigan. He was called on
his mission in May, 1961 by Presi
dent Ross of the Wigan Branch, and
set apart by President Bates of the
Manchester Stake. First he went to
Manchester for three weeks and
worked with Brother Boren. In
June, when work began on the
Rochdale chapel Ernest was trans-
fered to Rochdale.
Ernest did farm work before being
called on his mission. He was also
learning to do painting and decorat
ing When his mission is completed
sion. They were invited in by my
he would like to continue with dec
orating.
THOMAS LEIGH
Sixteen months ago I was a young
man who hadn t any set purposes
or goals in life. Now I am a Labour
Missionary in the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. My life
is now worth living.
This is really a humbling experience
for me to write about myself, but I
would like to tell you about my
conversion.
My name is Thomas Leighton Jones.
I was born in Merthyr Tydfil, South
Wales in 1942. I was blessed with
wonderful parents and a happy
home life. Being Latter-day Saints,
my parents reared me in a manner
that was beneficial to me. Although
my parents were inactive, they
knew that this was the true Church
of Jesus Christ. When I was in my
younger years, I never attended the
Latter-day Saint Church regularly,
but on very few occasions. My par
ents were, however, constantly
telling me of their experiences in
the Church, and of the happiness
they had received. At the age of
seventeen I had been thinking that
my life was lacking in some way
and it was not until I was nearly
eighteen years old that the Gospel
reached me.
One cold windy night in February
1960 two young part-time mission
aries came to our home. I was
sitting by the fire watching televi
mother and it turned out to be
Brother Arnold Jones and his sister,
Freda. These two young people I
knew vaguely. We talked a little of
the Church and various other sub
jects, and they seemed very nice
people. They asked me if they might
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have a series of discussions on the
Church, but I refused. We carried
on talking and were returned to the
subject of the discussions. Brother
Arnold said, Sometime you are
going to have to make the decision
whether to accept or reject the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. He said
those words sternly and it made me
feel that I should have these dis
cussions. So I agreed that it would
do no harm to listen. That night
they told me of the Godhead, and
everything they said I agreed with.
It seemed rather peculiar because
they were telling me nothing I
didn t already know. Later I real
ized the perfect way in which the
plan was arranged and that this
was the reason for the thoughts
which I had. The lesson on the
restoration was very wonderful to
me. I knew also that the things
these two fine young people were
telling me were true. They challen
ged me to baptism, and I shall never
forget their faces when I replied,
"yes . They were filled with joy,
the joy that conies from serving the
Lord.
Two week later, on Saturday, April
23, 1960 I was baptised by Priest
Arnold Jones. There were 72 people
at the baptismal service. Ten others
were baptised too. That night i shall
never forget.
When I joined the Merthyr Tydfil
Branch of the Church, the mem
bership was quickly growing. My
progression in the Church was due
to the people of the Branch and I
owe them a lot of thanks for their
love and kindness, because without
it, I would never have progressed
so quickly.
I am now on a mission with that
very person who taught me the
Gospel, Elder Arnold Jones. He is
the one who baptised me and he
will always be a testimony to me.
His family are people of the highest
caliber, and they helped me more
than I can say in words. A year be
fore I came on a Mission, I joined a
Company owned by Latter-day
Saints. They are now my dearest
frineds, and the love and kindness
shown me, by them, has sometimes
overwhelmed me. The very week
that I write this testimony, I was
ordained an Elder and received the
Melchizedek Priesthood. What won
derful joy I have found in this
Church and I am looking forward to
the future, because I know that if
I live this Gospel I will have many
wonderful experiences and bles
sings.
I have a wonderful girl friend back
home in Wales. She is a constant
help to me in the fulfillment of my
mission. She is a girl of sweet cha
racter, it was built on rock, the
Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The testimony I have now is the
result of all the people I have
written about.
They are people of God, Latter-day
Saints, and I know that God lives
and Jesus is the Christ, because I
have prayed to my Heavenly Father
and had the burning in the bosom
of this.
I am thankful to my Heavenly
Father for the opportunity I have
of helping to build His kingdom
here upon the earth. And for bless
ing me with understanding and a
testimony of this Gospel. And so my
life is now worth living in serving
the Lord. I write these words humb
ly in the name of Jesus Christ,
Amen.
Leighton Arnold
ARNOLD JONES
Prayers were answered when one
day I was called to serve as a Labor
Missionary in the Church of Jesus
Christ. Im thankful for the oppor
tunity to be able to write of the
important events in my life which
led to that calling.
Perhaps I could introduce myself by
telling a little of my birth, and the
environment in which I was brought
up. My name is Arnold Jones. I am
an Elder in the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was
born at Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales
in the year 1941.
My mother, Florence Ellen Jones,
has been a member of this Church
for approximately thirty years. If
anyone can be said to have been
the instrument in the Lord s hands
in bringing me to the Church, then
it was she. My father, Frederick
Jones, is a member of another
Church and differs greatly in
opinion with regard to the doctrin
es we know to be the truth. I have
two sisters, one being my twin, and
the other just 14 months younger.
We have grown up together, helping
one another in decisions concerning
the acceptance of the principles of
the Gospel and assisting each other
in the development of our testi
monies.
During my youth, my father, feeling
he was doing right, made the deci
sion that the three of us should at
tend the Church of his choice. In
deed we were told that no commu
nication between us and the Mor
monChurch could be allowed, ex
cept for M.I.A. and an occasional
trip or special function. Meanwhile,
our mother carefully taught us some
of the principles of the Church, but
never once forced us to listen or
commit ourselves to the restored
Gospel.
As we grew older and were able to
understand a little more, we
were attracted to the teachings of
our mother because of their simpli
city over the other Churches we had
contacted. We became curious as to
how and why the Church was or
ganized. Even the fact that our
father stopped us from attending
the "Mormon meetings developed
within us a greater desire to know
why it was we were being stopped.
The first decision we had to make
concerning the religious lives we
were going to lead, came at the age
of 12 years. It was then we were
approached by the Vicar of the
other Church to be confirmed. At
tins age we had faith in what was
the truth and we turned down the
opportunity he offered. From that
time we became defenders of our
beliefs whenever the Vicar or his
Sunday School teachers approached
us. Each year we were asked to be
confirmed and to take a course of
lessons prior to this ordination, each
year we refused and explained why
we were not content with their doc
trine. I remember even, that the
Vicar came to see our father to ask
him why it was we wouldn t be con
firmed. The more we kept defending
the truth, the greater was our faith
that is ivas the truth. So did our
testimonies grow and develop to the
extent that we could not attend a
baptism without a tear coming to
our eyes due to the longing we had
to be in the water ourselves and
to be able to join Christ s Church.
During this time our mother al
ways helped us, but never persuad
ed us against our free agency, to
accept the Gospel principles.
At the memorable age of 16, I was
one Sabbath day walking towards
the Church of England and thinking
of the task it was to be attending
the wrong Church. The spirit of de
termination welled up inside me
and I ran back home to ask my
father if I could attend the Mor
mon Church. Thinking then, that
we had minds of our own, he consen
ted and then came my baptism on
August 31, 1957. My sisters soon
followed and then did we realize
that the prayers of our mother had
been answered, for she had prayed
since we were born that we would
accept Christ s teachings.
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Since my baptism, I ve held a num
ber of offices in the Church. At the
termination of each, I have felt
stronger about my belief in the doc
trines of this Gospel. I ve had the
opportunity of attending many
great meetings which have been
held in Britain, all of which have
left their impressions upon me.
Gradually j advanced the Priest
hood and began to realize the im
portance of authority, to respect it
and honor it and try to glorify the
name of our Father in Heaven.
On June 16, 1961, I received a call
to serve on a Labor Mission. My
prayers and the prayers of my mo
ther had once again been answer
ed and the power of prayer made
manifest. I shall forever be thank
ful for my dear mother and for the
introduction she gave me to the
Gospel by teaching and living its
principles.
Id like to leave my testimony to the
divine truth which lies in this the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. We find that
nothing so good and clean and pure
can be found anywhere but in the
Church.
No feeling so great and whole
some can be experienced other than
in service to our Father in Heaven.
Im thankful for the way the organi
zation of this Church gives oppor
tunity for service. Im grateful that
the Church can change young lives
to the extent that they feel happy
and glad to render such service. Im
thankful for my calling and I leave
this testimony with you in the name
of Jesus Christ, Amen.
STUART BOWRNE
Stuart is eighteen years old (born
March 11, 1943) and comes from
Huyton, near Liverpool. He had
been serving his shipwright appren
ticeship two and a half years when
called on this labour mission. He
plans to go back and finish his
apprenticeship when his mission
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is finished. He has been active in
the Liverpool Ward, serving as sec
retary of his Priest Quorum and
speech director in M.I.A. He is mak
ing a very fine contribution to the
building program in Rochdale.
He was called to be a labour mis
sionary by Bishop Cubbon in May,
1961 and set apart June 25 by Pres
ident Bates of the Manchester
Stake.
MALCOLM BOLTON
My name is Malcolm Bolton. I was
born July 27, 1930 in Heckmond-
wike, Yorkshire, the son of Arthur
and Clara Bolton. My father died
in 1947 and my mother is not yet a
member of the church. I have two
sisters and one brother. My brother
and his family are members of the
Church.
All my life I lived in Heckmond-
wike and attended school there. I
passed a scholarship and went to
grammar school, but at my own
request, left when fourteen years
of age to take a job. I was in the
R.A.F. for a year and a half on Na
tional Service and have been in my
last job with a carpet firm for ten
and a half years.
I was converted into the Church,
My brother and his family had been
members for a few years, during
and baptized on February 27, 1960.
which time I had not shown or felt
much interest in the Church, until a
few weeks before my baptism when
I attended the Bradford Chapel to
watch a baptismal service. I was
approached by Elder Asplund and
he, along with Elder Ogden, came
the following day to give me my
first introduction to the Church.
The missionaries changed a couple
of times during the lessons but all
helped me a great deal. Though my
own feelings were that I wanted to
become a member of the Church
even before I had a lesson, the les
sons taught me more about its prin
ciples and practices. My brother
has helped me a very great deal,
along with every member of the
Dewsburg Ward, Leeds Stake, who
are a wonderful group of saints.
I am not married. I hold the position
of Elder in the Melchizedek Priest
hood, have held positions within the
Ward of Genealogy Chairman and
Y.M.M.I.A. Secretary, and Secreta
ry for a few months to the Stake
Aaronic Priesthood Committee.
I enjoy reading and since coming
into the Church, enjoy all of its
activities, watching the games, and
sometimes participating.
My mission started July 10, 1961
and I am now working on the Leeds
Ward under Brother Harris. I am
happier in this work than I have
been for a long time. Not being a
great speaker, I wanted badly to do
something in the missionary pro
gram, and as soon as I heard about
the building program, my heart was
set upon it and now my prayers
have been answered. I hope that I
may measure up to the trust the
leaders of the Church have put in
me in this true Church of Jesus
Christ.
My home address is 18 Boundary H,
Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, and my
present address is c/o Roger Burton,
57 Broadlea Grove, Leeds 13.
TERRANCE G. FIELDING
I, Terrance George Fielding, was
born December 21, 1940 in Box Hill,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At
the age of fourteen I left school and
began working in my father s
foundry. That same year I joined
the church.
I am grateful to my parents for
being so broadminded in their
decision to join the Mormon Church.
My father was Methodist and my
mother Roman Catholic and they
brought me up to go to the Catholic
Church one week and the Methodist
the next, each hoping when I was
old enough to decide, I would join
their'^Henomination:'My parents in
vited in people of different religions
and listened to them but always had
the impression that they had some
truth, but could not agree that they
had the full truth. At this period the
Elders called and my parents were
impressed at the first meeting and
told them to continue coming. My
mother was the first to join, then
my younger brother and sister. My
father decided to join after two
years of studying the Gospel. My
two older brothers who were away
in different places joined and
brought their wives into the Church.
I believed my father to be a very
SCANDINAVIAN AREA
JlocaL J la b o t M i55io n atle5
AIMO JAKKO
Elder Aimo Jiikko is the first labour
missionary to be called in the Scand
inavian area. Lappeenranta, Fin
land is his home and at present he
is working on the chapel there. He
is 21 years of age and has been a
member of the church for three
years. At present he is Superintend
ent of the YMMIA. He expresses
great joy in having been called on
a two year labour mission, and
feels it a blessing to help build up
the kingdom of God in the earth.
logical man and so I followed him
into the Church.
The office I liked most was that of
Sports Director in the M.I.A. becau
se I enjoyed helping the teenagers.
At the age of nineteen I left Aus
tralia by way of ship to Greece
destination Great Britain. I ferried
to Brindia, then on to Rome, Paris
and across the Channel to Dover.
My intention in coming to England
was to go on a mission and I was
called to be a Labour Missionary
July 23, 1961. On July 24 I arrived
in York.
I have always had a desire to fill a
mission and was happy to give two
years after seeing the progress of
the Church and taking part in the
Building Program in Australia. The
way it improved the spiritual stand
ards of the Australians and in
creased the number of Saints, I
knew it would do the same for
Great Britain. I believe what Presid
ent David O. McKay meant when
talking about the New Era in Great
Britain and that the Church could
become the Mother Church here.
I
m pleased to be called to be a
part of this great program when
realizing the importance of it.
JOHN ANDERSON
I was born in Harpenden, Hertford
shire in May, 1942 and first heard of
the Gospel when one day, being
bored and with nothing to do, a
friend asked me if I would like to go
to Mutual with him that evening. I
enjoyed the evening so much that
I started going regularly and also to
Sunday School and Sacrament meet
ings. After I had attended these
meetings for about twelve weeks I
asked to be baptized. I had prayed
about joining the Church and knew
it was the only true Church on the
earth. I was baptized on October
22, 1955. At this time I am the only
member of the Church in my
family.
When I was ordained a Deacon I
made up my mind to study the
Gospel so that I would be able to
go on a mission. I knew that the
Lord was blessing me when I was
called to work in the St. Albans
Branch in the M. I. A. Soon after
that I was called to be first counse
lor in the Sunday School. It wasn t
long until I received my call to
serve in the capacity of a labour
missionary. I was set apart by Pres
ident Hemingway of the London
Stake on the 10th of June, 1961. To
be able to work in Reading with
Brother Erickson, the Building Su
pervisor, is indeed a privilege and
a blessing.
TAISTO JAASKELAINEN
Eighteen year old Elder Taisto
Jaaskelainen is from Hyvinkaa, Fin
land and is the second labour mis
sionary called in the Scandinavian
area. He has been very active in
church assignments since becoming
a member one year ago and is look
ing forward to being a labour mis
sionary because of the opportunities
it will bring for service. At present
he is working on the Lappeenranta
chapel.
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HANNY JANSSEN
I was born in Amsterdam, March,
15, 1942. When I was 7 years old we
moved to Hilversum, where I now
reside. There 1 attended school in
cluding higher- grade school. After
graduating I studied for one and
one-half years to be a florist.
In 1955 I became a member of the
church after visiting Sunday School
and Mutual for a year and a half.
After my Baptism I was asked
t f e t t n a n u
KAISERSLAUTERN
The beautiful piece of property pur
chased in Kaiserslautern is centrally
located, making it easily accessible
to all members of both branches.
On the property was a former nur
sery. It is a large beautiful piece,
fronting on two streets with a stone
wall around the entire property.
Kaiserslautern is reported to have
the largest congregation of Ameri
cans in the world outside of the
continental United States. We have
a large ServicemensBranch of over
three hundred members in this
town. After explaining to the U.S.
Army that we were erecting
churches tiiat would be open to
people of all faiths and that we
would have facilities attractive to
the servicemen, they offered us the
use of their heavy equipment and
a man to operate it. The old struc
tures have all been cleared from the
building site and the ground made
ready for construction by using an
Army bulldozer.
There is also a German Branch of
ninety-five members and the mem
bers of both Branches met together
in a meeting and expressed will
ingness to undertake a building
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( y ^ lc e
to be a teacher in Sunday-
School, teaching the age group from
twelve to twenty years. I am now
Sunday School Secretary of our
Branch and M.I.A. Secretary of the
Netherlands Mission. I love to work
in Mutual very much. My hobbies
are music, drama, reading and arch-
aelogy.
My mother is a member of the church
but my father is not as yet. However
the missionaries are now meeting
with him. I have a 12 year old
brother and he is a real fine boy.
I am thankful to be a member of
the Church and I love working for
the Scandinavian Area Office. My
testimony had grown a great deal.
Stella van Ginkel is a pretty meis-
je whose father is from Holland
and mother from Indonesia. She was
born January 24, 1943 in Hilversum,
Holland where she still lives, Stella
has one sister 16, who does house
keeping, and one brother, 15, who is
in the Higher Grade School. In
June 1959 she passed her final school
examinations including typewriting,
Dutch and English shorthand. She
is now trying to learn Spanish. Hob
bies are films, music, reading, and
corresponding in other languages.
Her favorite language is German.
project and each do his share. Plans
are completed for the chapel, and
construction will start within a few
weeks.
HAMBURG - By Edna Biesinger
Hamburg is a very beautiful city
with rivers and lakes plus a good
size harbor where the big ships
come in. The city surrounds a lovely
lake and there is water bus service
to various points. Many sail and
motor boats are seen skimming
along the water.
There are plenty of interesting
things for anyone visiting this city.
There is the zoo, one of the
largest and finest in the world,
the botanical gardens, museums,
play houses, concerts, etc. Or one
may go to a movie and listen to his
favorite star come out with a
mouthful of Deutch. It really
makes you open your eyes.
During the winter months there is
the new, modern opera house. The
old one was bombed out during the
war A ride on the subway (U
Bahn), which is also the elevated,
is worth while, as is a trip to the
The whole van Ginkel family, with
the exception of the father, are
members of the Mormon Church,
her mother being baptized in Fe
bruary 1952 and the three children
in February 1958. They have been
coming to church since 1951.
Stella is a Sunday School teacher in
the Hilversum Branch, teaching
children up to the age of eight. I
like to tell the children about the
Lord, says Stella. Before coming
to work in the Scandinavian Area
office in Laren, she worked for
Philips Company in Huizen.
wharf to take a boat on a sight
seeing tour around the harbor. One
may also sit on the wharf in the
open and while having delightful
refreshments watch the big ships
go by. No visit to Hamburg is com
plete without visiting the B ee s at
their home, Barca Strasse 14, over
looking the Alster Sea. The sail
boats here are beautiful.
We ladies laugh at our clumsy
attempts to do the shopping. It is odd
to be the foreigner and see the
young and some times the older
people snicker at you. Turn about
is fair play, you know.
Our meetings are held in the Eile-
nau Branch in Hamburg. These
meetings are all in German and
there is a very wonderful spirit
there which brings much happiness.
Sisters, we have been called to do
this work along with our husbands
and to do all the missionary work
we possibly can. Let us keep up our
faith and courage and work united
ly for better understanding of these
people to whom we have been sent.
Let us prove that a language barrier
need not be a barrier to love and
understanding, for surely this is the
will of the Lord and the true spirit
of the gospel.
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SISTERS SOB CORNER by Hazel
WEST HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND
July 2, 1961 was our first Sunday in
West Hartlepool. We enjoyed the
spirit of the meetings. I taught the
seven and eight-year-olds in Sunday
School and enjoyed it very much.
Fast Sunday evening of each month
is set aside for family night and
no services are held in the Branch.
Two young girls, Joan Thornton, 13,
who was baptised July 1, and Ann
Andrews, 14, baptised one week ago,
came to our home and had family
hour with us. It was most interest
ing as the girls told us how they
became interested in the Church
and how their parents had finally
consented to their being baptised.
They told us a great deal about the
town and customs including the dif
ferent schools, etc. After prayer we
served light refreshments. We hope
they join with us again next month
in family hour when we will discuss
some phase of the Gospel.
by Erma Lane, British Area.

BECKY BIRD
Elder ands Sister Stan Bird had a
very wonderful surprise this month
when President Thorne of the North
British Mission called them one
evening, shortly after his return
home from the Mission Presidents
Conference in Salt Lake, to give
them the wonderful news that their
daughter Rebecca (Becky) Bird had
just been called on a proselyting
mission! What a thrill to have her
called to the Scotch-Irish mission
where they may be able to get a
glimpse of her once in awhile, as
Elder Bird goes about his business
of purchasing property for the
British Isles. Becky finished her
Junior year at the BYU this sum We have extra copies available of
mer where she is studying to be
The Builder. Please contact your
come a Physical Education teacher.
Her parents have seen very Area Correspondent.
little of her in the past three years,
about two weeks to be exact, as they
have been in New Zealand while
Becky has been at the Y... She
goes into the mission home in Salt If in our
Program Moves Onyour
Lake City on August 14, and will
be arriving at her destination in name is omitted, please contact your
Scotland about the first of Septem Area correspondent; also please keep
ber. As you can imagine, Brother
her informed as to your correct
and Sister Bird and Kathy are
counting the days! address so you will receive all copies
of THE BUILDER.

JULY 24th, 1961

The pioneer holiday of July 24 was CORRECTIONS REPORTED
not to be overlooked this year by the Germanic Area: Hans Jensen
families of the Scandinavian Area instead of Kenneth Jensen
office staff and Building Supervisors,
who met at the Richard Jackson British Area: Erma Lane instead
home for a celebration. President E. of Edna Lane
Albert Rosenvall brought his beau
tiful colored slides of New Zealand
to show to the group.
'Before the pot luck dinner was
served a ball game was enjoyed by
the young people. Home-made ice If there are any omissions or errors
cream frozen in a real old fashioned in this issue, please notify your Area
freezer was served. The Jacksons Correspondent and we will be happy
obtained the freezer from the Am
sterdam Flea Market. to make corrections next month.

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