Our Work: Missionary Work in Utah Stake

MISSIONARY WORK IN UTAH STAKE.

[The following communication from Elders laboring in the Utah Stake of Zion will exhibit the earnestness with which our Mutual Improvement Missionary work has been prosecuted during the past winter in that Stake, and will give some idea of the good accomplished by such efforts]:

Lehi, February 22nd, 1899. Elders B. H. Roberts and J. Golden Kimball, Dear Brethren: In concluding our missionary labors among the young men of Utah Stake of Zion, we desire to make a report of them to you, and express our sentiments in relation to the work in which we have been engaged. We commenced to labor on the first day in December, 1898, and continued our labors, with a very slight exception during the holidaysv until today. We have visited personally one thousand eight hundred and twentysix young men and enrolled one thousand and eighty-four as members of

Many of our personal visits were to young the various associations. men who were members of the association, but were dilatory in attending to their duties. We have enjoyed to a considerable extent the Spirit of the Lord, and feel that much good has been done. During all our labors we have been united as one man and the local authorities of the various wards have assisted us in every way in advancing the interests of the mission. We have visited all the wards in this Stake of Zion, thirty-four in number, and no place have we commenced our labors until the local authorities were in sympathy with the mission, and in harmony with the manner of conducting the same. The homes of the people have invariably been open to us, and we have been shown every courtesy and consideration, for which we feel truly thankful. We have found a very great labor here and believe that there is yet a broad field in which to work and that a continuation of the missionary labor during the winter months will be very profitable. We find that there is great need of labor among the young men in general, and especially among that class of young men who are married and have around them one or more children. Many of them are very negligent in

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the discharge of their public duties and need a great deal of labor to awaken them to active work in the Gospel of Christ. Our labors have been pleasurable in the extreme, and we and each of us desire to be understood as being interested with yourselves in the reclamation of the youth of Zion, and at any and all times willing to do anything required at our hands in the work of the Lord. Praying that our Heavenly Father may sanctify our labors to the benefit of the youth of Zion,

We are your brethren in the Gospel, Charles R. Lyman, In behalf of Missionaries of Utah Stake.