2013-10-07-Facebook-Ardis Parshall-BenRich
From New York City LDS History
- Virtually every monthly letter from every president of every mission in the early 20th century begged for more missionaries. Ben E. Rich in the Eastern States came up with a proposal to solve his mission's problem: Each of the other U.S. missions should immediately transfer 15 elders to his mission, elders returning from Europe should extend their missions in New York for a few months, and he should get all elders called in the future until his numbers were up to what he thought they should be. The other presidents should not oppose this solution, he said, because (1) we're all in this together and they should be just as happy to see Rich's mission succeed as their own; and (2) his mission was obviously the most important mission in the world. -- Ardis on Facebook
Later comments:
- What was the date of this letter? - Steve Eccles
- 1908. -- Ardis
