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Ida Chamness letters, 1910-1922

1912-07-13 Page 17

-17- Roldal. This dream proved true. Seventh month, 13th. We leave for Sovde, where there is a settlement of friends. They have a nice meeting house with two rooms in upstairs; and two beds in each room for traveling friends. We are now among the mountains of Norway which have snow on them in patches at this time of the year. The next day which was the first day of the week, we had one meeting at eleven o'clock in the fore-noon; and one at four o'clock in the afternoon. These were favored meetings. I thought Ida's ministry at this place excelled all that I had ever heard. The next day we left on the boat and went ashore at Sand. And there took rigs for a distance of ten miles. We rode near the deep running streams of water, dashing furiously by with their white foam some twenty and one hundred and fifty feet deep, and above us the lofty mountains on each side 100 to 500 to 2,000 ft. high. We got to Osen where we staid all night at the hotel. The next morning we took a boat for Naes, a distance of fifty miles. We landed there after passing through some of the narrow tunnels through the rocks. At twelve o'clock we arrived at a hotel where we took dinner. I saw some of the highest mountains I had ever seen of solid rock. They had snow on the tops of them.

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-17- Roldal. This dream proved true. Seventh month, 13th. We leave for Sovde, where there is a settlement of friends. They have a nice meeting house with two rooms in upstairs; and two beds in each room for traveling friends. We are now among the mountains of Norway which have snow on them in patches at this time of the year. The next day which was the first day of the week, we had one meeting at eleven o'clock in the fore-noon; and one at four o'clock in the afternoon. These were favored meetings. I thought Ida's ministry at this place excelled all that I had ever heard. The next day we left on the boat and went ashore at Sand. And there took rigs for a distance of ten miles. We rode near the deep running streams of water, dashing furiously by with their white foam some twenty and one hundred and fifty feet deep, and above us the lofty mountains on each side 100 to 500 to 2,000 ft. high. We got to Osen where we staid all night at the hotel. The next morning we took a boat for Naes, a distance of fifty miles. We landed there after passing through some of the narrow tunnels through the rocks. At twelve o'clock we arrived at a hotel where we took dinner. I saw some of the highest mountains I had ever seen of solid rock. They had snow on the tops of them.