815. Wayne, and the Gift of Tongues, on his mission in 1950s, and ways I am going to change my blog. How to get free LDS thoughts in your e mail.
First I want to let Wayne himself tell of a very choice experience he had on his first mission to Sweden, from December 1950 to July 4, 1953. This is a picture of Wayne D Eckman, on his first mission to Sweden, 1950s. I’m going to relate to you now a very choice experience I had language-wise after I had been in Sweden just six months. I could understand more Swedish than I could speak. One fast Sunday, Elder Timpson, who was to conduct the fast meeting, became ill and the responsibility fell upon me to fulfill that task. One brother by the name of Algot Soderstrom got up and literally lambasted the Church up one side and down the other–declaring that the Church said too much about tithing, the Word of Wisdom, fast offerings, etc. It was obvious that all of these bothered him because he wasn’t observing them completely. There I was kind of speechless and not knowing exactly what to do. Nevertheless, he needed to be corrected so that the congregation would not get the wro