Walter Lyman

Before 1903

Central States Mission

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Walter Lyman

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"In the fall of 1898, when we had been eagerly hammering away for a year at our cherished project--and let me say right here it was a cherished undertaking, we anticipated the future with great hopes--the surprise events began to happen as if they might have been planned: My father was called to preside over the European Mission (LDS church), Uncle Walter was called to the Eastern States, and then to preside over the Central States Mission. Willis Rogers was called to the Southern States, his brother John on an M.I.A. Mission to Arizona and I to England. We put our enthusiasm in cold storage and went. As my father left he said, 'I pray that the country will be so dry while we are gone that no one will think of jumping our claims.' The ditch became the laughing stock of the country, a fantastic undertaking which had been abandoned as impossible of accomplishment." (Albert R. Lyman 43.)