---
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: 14
number: 11
published: 1911-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Messages from the Missions," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 11 (September 1911): 1062.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14011unse
  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: improvementera14011unse
start_page: 1062
end_page: 1062
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14011unse
  publication_year: 1911
  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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Messages from the Missions

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Messages from the Missions. Elder Andrew Funk, of the Aarhus conference, Denmark, gives an account of the annual spring conference held at Aarhus on the first and second of April, at which Mission President Andrew Jenson and twenty- one elders attended. It was reported that 35,108 homes had been visited with tracts, of which 85,008 had been distributed. Of books, 1,469 were sold or given away. There had been 3,637 gospel conversations, 2, 147 re-invitations to homes of non-members, and sixty baptisms, dur- ing the half year just passed. The branch has a splendid choir of forty members, under the leadership of Elder Andrew M. Anderson. The choir gave a fine concert and evening entertainment at the close of the con- ference. "The opposition is using the press to spread the old yarns about us, and a Pastor Thorsen is traveling around with magic lantern lectures for the purpose of 'unveiling' 'Mormonism.' However, in spite of the efforts of the adversary, the work continues to prosper, and the Lord is blessing our labors. The Saints are faithful and show a wonder ful hospitality, the elders all being provided for during the conference, free. We have many friends and the prospect for the future is very bright." The elders, reading from left to right, are, back row: John E. Christensen, Peter Hansen, Chr. Nielsen, Fred C. Mickelsen, J. Lyman Nielsen, Martin Peterson, Niels P. Jensen (visiting) Anton Cramer. Second row: James R. Paystrup, Chr. Jensen, Carl M. Gjettrup, Erastus Rismussen, Erastus J. Christiansen, Anders C. Petersen, Andrew M. Andersen. Third row: August 0. Nielsen, Michael Hansen, Alma Peter- sen, Andrew Jenson (Mission President), Andrew Funk (Conference President), N.Claudius Hoist (Secretary), Andrew P. Nielson. In front: HilmarM. Nielsen, and Eric Ludvigsen.