1957 – 1958 — West Central States Mission — Bound Volume — Including Actual Missionary Letters and Other Publications — Very Unique — Large Size Hardbound

This red hardcover is very large and weighs 6 pounds. It is 8.5×11″ and almost three inches thick!

It appears to have been bound by a missionary and contains the following:

1. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, November 1957.

2. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, December 1957.

3. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, February 1958.

4. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, March 1958.

5. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, April 1958.

6. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, May 1958.

7. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, June 1958.

8. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, July 1958.

9. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, “All Mission Conference Tour” — Elder George Q. Morris, September 1958.

10. West Central States Mission, Billings, Montana, September 1958.

11. The Heavens Are Opened, Oct 15, 1958.

12. The Heavens Are Opened, Nov. 8, 1958.

13. The Heavens Are Opened, Dec 6, 1958.

14. The Heavens Are Opened, Jan 9, 1959.

15. The Heavens Are Opened, Feb 1959.

16. The Heavens Are Opened, Mar 10, 1959.

17. The Heavens Are Opened, Apr 10, 1959.

18. The Heavens Are Opened, May 12, 1959.

19. The Heavens Are Opened, Jun 10, 1959.

20. The Heavens Are Opened – Elder Hugh B. Brown of the Council of 12 Apostles Featured Speaker….. Public Invited, Aug 10, 1959.

21. West Central States Mission, September 10, 1959, Billings, Montana

22. The Heavens Are Opened, October 10, 1959.

23. The Heavens Are Opened – Spirituality – November 10, 1959.

24. ABOUT 100 PAGES OF LETTERS AND RECORDS: Missionary Registration Record, Missionary Activity Reports, letters from Mission Presidents, Monthly Reports, inked letters, typed letters to a missionary from mission president and others, letter signed by President J. Leonard Love of the California Mission, lots more letters; some typed and signed and others hand-written,  with most of the letters in the 1958-1959 range and in the West Central States Mission.  There are typed “Missoula District” information sheets and “Black Hills District Bulletins” and news. — lots of letters!

25. The New Englander, New England Mission Monthly Bulletin, December 1957, Vol. 20, No.12.

26. California Mission, February 1958.

27. The Church of….. Announces All Mission Conference, Mission Area — Montana, Wyoming, and Western Part of North and South Dakota, Elder LeGrand Richards,  Featured Speaker at Billings Senior High School, December 29, 1957, Public Invited.

28. Great Lakes Mission, May 1958.

Thick bound volume with lots of items you just don’t see; all are missionary related. These documents record events, study programs, doctrine, mission president’s messages, honor roll, mission progress, news, instructions, baptisms, charts, talks, announcements, locations of missionaries, district news, etc…  Some of these items still have the old stamps on the back page from when they were mailed. There are copies of letters here and there and many pages are color paper.

A unique volume; clearly a one-of-a-kind!