Grapes for the Welfare Farm

A carload of missionaries heading for the church welfare vineyard. Notice they are still clean and refreshed. The second picture shows the grapes they cut drying on the trays. The next picture shows five very dirty and tired missionaries. ...Yes, they are holding each other up. It took twenty Branch members five hours to harvest this row of grapes. And there are hundreds of rows on eighty acres for wards to harvest.

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Glen and all of the other Elders and members and their families went to give service on the grape welfare farm at harvest time.  It was HOT and backbreaking work and a labor of love for the Lord and his people.  You need to get under the plants to cut the bunches of grapes just so.  Then you lay them out on trays which are really papers.  They dry right there where they lay.  In two weeks you turn them over and as they dry they become raisins!  Then they are passed out through the Bishop's Storehouse.  Simple and beautiful.