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Show L him there. In the meantime, my older brother was d ad between them. I knew his health from the time he was in assumed, one way or the other, he might be dead becaus him. BEC: Oh, that' s a sad story. AL V: So that is where that ended up. rm I n hard BEC: But you and Grethe were able to get permission to come to the United States? AL V: Yes. She got called to go on a mission and she went to her mission in ' 4 7 and I got called to be District President [LDS Church position] in Esbjerg. So I moved from Esbjerg to the west coast or to the east coast, I should say. I was on the west coast, so it was to the east coast, to Fredericia. That should be easy to find. See Esbjerg is over here [looking at map]. BEC: Is that it? AL V: Yes, Fredericia is over here. It's over there. I was over the church district from here clear down to Germany and clear up to Ringkobing, up here. It was the biggest district in Denmark at that time. So I was working on that for a year, 1947. Then he said to me, "Well, you'd better get married so you know the problems of the married people." So, we got married in '47. In '48, our papers got in order. That was a little stormy, too. We got a letter that said everything is ready, you can go. Okay, so I quit my job there with Crabenh0ft and his gang, you know, and got everything ready to roll out of the country. Went over there and they said, "No, it will be another month before we can give you a quota number for you to go on." "Well," I says, "this was the information I was given." So he says, "Okay, we have given a couple quota numbers to go, but they said 40 |
