Comments on: Southwestern States Mission: Without Purse or Scrip

By: Edje Jeter

Edje Jeter — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:31:50 +0000

Kevin: thanks for the extra detail.

I think Elder Folkman’s experiences with city proselyting were repeated many times before the institutional memory learned to distinguish city and rural proselyting. Because of this distinction, later versions of WOPOS were called “country proselyting” and were not attempted in cities.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:16:54 +0000

The Galveston experience of Elder Folkman was in such contrast to the rest of his mission, where “entertainment,” as he called it, was easy to get, that his frustration in Galveston is apparent in his journal. He and his companions could not get churches or public buildings for meetings, had difficulty in handing out tracts, could find no one to give them room and board. After the great hurricane inundated Galveston in September of 1900, he and his companions could not wait to leave. They found much more success in eastern Texas, and one gets the sense that Folkman thought Galveston deserved the destruction.

By: Edje Jeter

Edje Jeter — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:17:10 +0000

Please note that Ardis's serial posting of Elder Jones's diary at Keepapitchinin finished today with Elder Jones safely back in Nevada.

By: Edje Jeter

Edje Jeter — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:15:25 +0000

Cynthia, we aim to please.

By: Cynthia L.

Cynthia L. — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:44:50 +0000

OMG “WOPOS” FTW!

(sorry, couldn’t resist. [insert joke about the title of the blog])