---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 6
published: 1907-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Our Work," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 6 (April 1907): 476.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera106unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera106unse
start_page: 476
end_page: 476
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera106unse
  publication_year: 1907
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Our Work

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OUR WORK.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Number 1, Volume X, Improvement Era, has been reprinted and mailed to
every subscriber who had not received one. In case any subscriber has failed to
receive number one, a postal card to this office will bring it by return mail.
ANNUAL M. I. A. FUND.
Officers are reminded of the importance of making remittance of the annual
M. I. A. Fund to the General Secretary, 214 Templeton Building, Salt Lake City,
before May 30, as any money received after that date can not be included in the
report for 1907.
APPRECIATING DIFFICULTIES.
One of the stake superintendents, in his monthly report, strikes a keynote to
progress that should awaken thought in the minds of all Mutual Improvement
workers. He evidently thinks that there is more danger when officers of the
associations find no difficulty, and when they think that everything is working just
right, than when they are continually beset with perplexing problems. He savs:
'
'The chief difficulty reported is lack of interest, but the most discouraging report
is from the wards that say they have no difficulties at all, when that, as well as
every other item of their report, indicates that they are completely snowed under
with difficulties that they do not appreciate."
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Early in March a sufficient number of blanks for the annual reports of the Y.
M. M. I. Associations for the wards and stakes, were sent with a letter of
instructions to the stake superintendents, and the ward reports no doubt have been
distributed to the presidents of the associations. Considerable difficulty has been
experienced heretofore in getting prompt returns from the ward presidents. We,
therefore, urge these officers and their secretaries to be more prompt this year in
making out their annual reports and forwarding same as early in April as possible
to the stake superintendents of their respective stakes. We urge the stake
officers to report promptly early in May—no later than the 10th—to the general
secretary. Officers generally are urged to make the reports as full and correct as
possible, so that we may have a complete report for our annual conference in
June.