Flensburg
Südermarkt 4 - IV
June 17
Dear Earl,
I presume that if I want to keep my correspondence on a receiving basis I had better start writing. It seems as though I have been having a hard time getting around to the matter lately. If I haven't got to speak somewhere, then it is teaching a class in something. Our branch here in Flensburg is almost completely organized and consequently we have about eight meetings a week to take care of. We try as much as possible to put all of the class teaching under local brethren but sometimes it fails and in that case we have to be prepared ourselves.
Well, I guess you will have been home about two months when you receive this letter. Nicht wahr?? How do you like this throwing prescriptions together?? If I don't miss my guess you have quite a steady job on your hands now. That's fine, it gives a fellow a little responsibility to carry. If you can just pass the board in the fall now, you will be all set. And if you don't, you'll never regret the few months you spent in Denver working for it. That is too bad that you missed the exam this spring but then if you make a regular book worm of yourself this summer, it won't make any difference. Tell that Frau of yours that you can't go out but more than once a week and put the rest of the nights in studying. I presume Burdett runs you a close race in that business of courting now anyway. What?? If he is what I think he is he is going to be a tough baby to handle, weighing 165 lbs. with a height of 5-11 makes me think that we will have to take a back seat by the time I come home.
How is everything around the store anyway?? Selling barrels and barrels of German-Lager bier??? Fountain business ought to be something that it hasn't been for years.
As I have already said, things with me are and have been about the same run of anecdotes lately. Mostly tracting and getting the doors slammed in my face. Once in a while I get a good conversation and get myself wound up on a question that I can't answer, but not very often. I'm coming around by degrees to the point where I can handle most of them ausser den Pastoren. When we do run across someone who will talk to us they usually end up with "horse feathers, I know you Mormons and your wives, etc." This trying to make a harvest of the Lord's vineyard is a hard proposition let me tell you. But it is certainly a wonderful and joyable work in spite of the fact that the Israelites are scattered all over the earth. And although I am going two years behind in school at home I figure that what I am learning over here will not make a great deal of difference. on top of that the Mission field surpasses all institutions of learning in developing the finer sides of ones nature.
I read in the Guardian where Coy Curtis received his appointment to West Point and that Bob Stratton and Martin Tate have graduated from their respective institutions of learning. If you see any of the punks tell them I said to write me.
Well, be good and tell everyone hello for me. Take care of yourself and tell your girl hello for me.
Love,
Clarence
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