Latter-day Saints Church in Minnesota

Latter-day Saints Church in Minnesota By Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian On my recent tour through the different missions in the United States, in the interest of Church history, I visited among other places St. Paul, Minnesota where the Saints hold regular Sunday school and meetings and have a pretty little frame church, or chapel, situated at No. 247 North Grotto St. The chapel needed cleaning and repairs, and above all a new coat of paint. The brethren made several inquiries as to what the work could be done for, and the price asked, based on the The L. D. S. Church in St. Paul, Minn., No. 247 N. Grotto Street, taken in May, 1921 after being painted and re-roofed by the elders. prevailing high wages, was almost prohibitive. So the mis- sionaries held a little council meeting and discovered that one of their number was a carpenter, another an experienced painter, and all accustomed to manual labor at home. Hence, laying aside their ministerial Prince Alberts, they donned overalls and jumpers, and did the work themselves, and so well was the work done that it drew forth praise and admiration, not only from the Saints and their friends, but from the fraternity of mechanics also. One of the pictures shown represents five elders at work painting and re-shingling the Church in May, 1921. Their names are Leander Theodore Thompson (President of the

L. D. S. CHURCH IN MINNESOTA 69 Minnesota conference), Leonard Rueckert, Darien Kartchner, John Wallace Bond and Harmon M. Groesbeck. The other pic- ture shows the chapel in its renovated condition. Elders Leander Theodore Thomp- son, Leonard Rueckert, Darien Kartch- ener, John Wallace Bona\ and Har- mon M. Groesbeck at work painting and reshingling the L. D. S. chapel in St. Paul, Minn., May, 1921.