Lübbecke i/Westf.
Osnabrückerstr. 16
Germany
July 5/33
Dear Mother and Dad,
Having just returned from Minden, I'm taking time out to write before I find something to do. It seems as though I have been on the go steady from the very minute I arrived in my new branch. There is a lot of work to do and to be done in this place. In the first place we have two branches to look over, the one here in Lübbecke and anotyher in Minden which is an hours ride on the train from Lübbecke. We divide our time up, spending four days out of the week in Lubbecke and the other three in Mindon.
As I have already mentioned, I and my companion just returned from our branch in Mindon. From the layout of my work which I have become acquainted with during the week that I have been here, it looks as if I am going to cut my sleeping hours short in able to get all of my work taken care of. It seems that the older a fellow gets on a mission the more occupied he becomes in his time. In the two branches there are about thirty-five friends who are investigating the gospel. And during the week the missionary has to make the rounds with a visit to each friend in order to keep them ardent and desirous in their investigations of the church. Outside of that I have the Sunday School in Mindon to look over aside from teaching a Sunday School class of the parents, leading the choir, and preaching every Sunday night. My companion has as much and probably more work to do than I. I don't know whether I told you or not but I am working with a German brother. He has been on a mission two years now and will probably be released in about a month. His home is in Munich in Southern Germany. It is strange but a fact that the German which is spoken here in this part of Germany is quite different from that spoken there in Flensburg. I become rather complexed at what my companion is talking about sometimes but then we are getting along great. At any rate my English will have to take its exercise in writing letters, which won't give me much opportunity in which to exercise it.
In the way of experiences I'm liable to live through quite a few of them in this part of the Lords Vineyard. They have gone so far as to prohibit us from holding Meetings here in Lübbecke. However, we have been holding house meetings in the homes of the friends. My companion tells me that about three weeks ago the police came to one of their house meetings and was going to run them out but the missionaries remained solid and wouldn't move because they couldn't show them the credentials necessary to throw them out. They went to the police about it the next day and found out that the big Bugs didn't know anything about it. It had all been done through a pastor of the Evangelische Church. This pastor has even gone around to all of our friends and told them that they had better leave this Mormonismus alone before they got in so deep they would never get out. He told them that any soul that joined the Mormons was lost, that he never would reach heaven.
Before I forget it, have my address changed at the Guardian office. I guess I'll buy me a bicycle in the next two or three days in order to defray my traveling expense. My "mit" told me that his bicycle has paid for itself several times in the six months that he has had it.
So you are living on the mountains now. With all of the relation around again I presume you are having a merry time on the mountains. Give Grandma and Aunt Ethel my greetings. It is time to go visiting so I'll put this letter away for this time.
Lots of Love,
Clarence
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