Die Welt-Post, 9 February, 1922:

Huck

Volga Relief Society

623 Lumbermen's Building

Portland, Oregon

20 October 1921

Dear Mrs. Repp:

   We thank God for his grace and the gift of life and health and we wish you the same.

   We wish you to know that you valued and faithful husband is here with us in Russia, in Huck, that he is healthy and cheerful.

   He travels from one colony to another and parcels out gifts of life. These he brought with him from America to allay our needs which have struck us. We are in a difficult situation. Last summer God sent us a poor harvest such as has not been known since time immemorial. I am 59 years old and have never experienced anything like it.

   About your husband George Repp, have no worries. He is in the good hands and protection of God. That our trust and strength and help in the greatest of need is God, so says David in the 46th Psalm. We have continually prayed to God for his mercy and to show us the way through this time of need. And it is certainly true that he has answered our prayers. God is trust and what he tells us, is a certainty.

                         With warm regards,

                                              B. J. Sittem

If you have trouble reading my letter, call my son G. K. Sittem. He lives with Wilhelm Kreick. He can read it for you. As with everything in God's keeping, B. J. S.