February 15th, 1964

 Date: 2-15-64

Well, we had a little excitement here this last week. The Swiss Mission received its longest transfer. Yes some 20000km or about 1000miles. Where to? Well, an Elder (Tolley) from here in Lugano and one from Zurich (Adams) will be transferred to work down in Beirut ,Lebanon. As far as I know they will be the first Elders of the Church to proselyte in the area of the Holy land. This created a lot of speculation amongst the Elders here in Tessin. One of the Elders piked up the Bible and turned to revelations (Rev 11:1-12) where John prophesies of the last days before the second coming of Christ. He says that there will be two prophets that will preach with power in the Holy land. They shall be killed and lie in the streets 3.5 days before they shall again take up the bodies and ascend to there Father I Heaven. It sure looks like the church is getting in the position to fulfill this prophecy. 

Been having a little trouble with one of the members here in Tessin. (Brother Ammon) He has been preaching some of his own doctrine in church. We are goin to have to do something so that he doesn't get the opportunity to preach very much. We spent a whole evening talking with two of our investigators straightening things up that he messed up in church. That means that we will be taking a more active part in the Sunday School services. That should be good for us and also set the proper atmosphere in church. I'm still wondering about the up coming transfers. I hope that I'm not made a senior, because I still don't know that much Italian . I guess I shall have to study harder.