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Show Valley to a ttend the Conference which had been scheduled . ·crossing over Look Out M:oun tai_n they a rrived a t t he home of a brother George W. ilson lc te in the evening , v e r y weary from their jcur.n~ . On the f ollowing day, the two Elders visited among t h e s a int s m d found a good Sp irit preva iling , " but the p owers of darkre SS have b een working in this Bra nch and some have a llowed themselve s to g ro w oo ld , " wrote ~Jlder u organ in his journal unde r t his date . 'l'he Semi- Annua l Conference o1:· t he s a ints of .N ar th Ge org i a and Al abama wa s held on t he 6th and 7th day oi· Oc1D ber, 1877 , with .c_;]d ers J ohn Morgan nd Ja s . '1' . Li s enbee in a ttenda nce . Thre e mee ti ngs were held each day ; t here was good a ttendance present m th pe ople c oming from the various ;(ranche s . A g ood spirit prevai l ed . Under da te of October 8 t h , .L l de r n organ wrote a l ett er to the he outlined his recent a ctivities : Editor- - Deseret ~ews Aft e r an absence of f our months , othe r I.Jisonb ee and I re t ur n ed to t his part o± the country to o ttend t he Semi - Annual Confe r ence o f the s a ints ot North Ge org i a and Albama . Since I l as t wrote you I have baptized seven more pe rsons rnd among t hem a young H nister of the Me thoa ist Church vh om I DE t J1i st July and who invited me to preach to h is congrega tion , which 1 d id f rom time t o time during the summer , r esulting in his a cc eptan ce of t he Gospel , a s well as quite a number ot his Il occ • He is a young man oi· more t han or dinary o.bili t y and i:f he will h old out i'ai th:fully to the end, c an do a good work in ass isting 1j0 build up the I:i rgcl om o f God. 'le think of ordaining h im an l der and l e tting h im continue pre a ching to his f ormer brethren a nd sisters who have no t yet come to a kno Nl edgo of the truth . ~h e r esult of brother Lisenbee ' s and my journey during the summe r , wos twenty- one bap tisms ood a f i eld of l a bor opened up I or some 11l ders to go into and do much good durirg t he |
