1918-05-Improvement Era—Messages from the Missions
Messages from the Missions
- Improvement Era, May 1918, pp. 642-643.
Handicapped by Lack of Missionaries
Elder W. O. Andrus writes from New Haven, Conn., and encloses this photo of the missionaries laboring in the New Haven conference of the Eastern States Mission. Standing, left to right: Jos. T. Moore, C. B. Stewart, R. L. Fisher, F. J. Gilbert, H. C. Baker, C. E. McCombs. Sitting: W. O. Andrus, incoming Conference President; Millie Tueller, Dora Coffman, Laverde Evans, L. W. Jefferv, retiring Conference President. Front: L. T. Alvord.
He says further: "We feel that the work of the Lord is forging on in some parts of this conference, but we are seriously handicapped by lack of missionaries owing to the war. People are somewhat indifferent to religion but there are some who are seeking for the truth. We have baptized a number, and there are others who have expressed their desire to be baptized as soon as the weather becomes warmer. At a recent priesthood meeting, the elders all came together and bore their testimony to the gospel and gave encouraging reports of the work which they are performing under the direction and inspiartion of the Spirit of the Lord. They return to their fields of labor with a determination to promulgate the gospel truths and to make the summer months fruitful in results."
