Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans l Ann Evans Sainsbury l Mary Sainsbury Visser l Steven Mathew Visser l Me Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans Was called to be the secretary of the Young Women's Improvement Association of the Union Ward on September 11, 1884-1889. She held this position until after she and Charles were married in 1889. She was asked to write many essays. She also wrote articles for the "Ladies Well Wisher" a publication that the LDS sisters could submit interesting and instructional information to. These items are available in the church history library. She often wrote that she "desired to do her duty to the best she could and asked the Lord to bless her in all her doing" She was married on Valentines Day 1889. October 27th, 1885 Dear Sisters, I will endeavor to respond to the call. We are living in a peculiar time, a time when the whole world is arising against the Saints of God and are trying with all their power to punish and persecute them for living in obedience to his laws. It therefore behooves us as Latter-day Saints to be up and alive t our duty for I realize we have no time to spend in idleness. If we read and study the scriptures we can see for ourselves that we need to spend all the time we have in usefulness. For Jesus said that before his coming we should hear of wars and rumors of wars nation shall rise against nation there should be famines and pestilences and Earthquakes in different places, and do we not hear of these things now at the present time? I think we do. There are other things we will find by reading scriptures that Jesus has said would be as signs of his coming. And he has said by these signs ye shall know that the coming of the Son of man is near at your doors, but no man knoweth in what hour he may come. But blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he come th shall find watching. Now if there is any of us that are in habit of going to places for enjoyment where it is not right for us to go or if we have any habits of doing or saying anything that is evil, let us repent of it but let it be true repentance do not say we are sorry we have done such and such things and we know it was wrong and we are sorry we have done so and will try and do no more, when in our hearts we do not feel sorry for what we have done and will go and do the same things over again. This I do not call true repentance. I realize that there is not any of us so good, but what, there is plenty of room for us to improve. We all have our faults and failings but as an improvement association we should try and do away with our evil ways and strive to improve so as we can always have the Spirit of the Lord to be with us to lead and guide us in the ways of truth. I feel proud of our association and think we have done well since we have been organized. I pray that we may continue in well doing. For it is they that endureth to the end that shall be saved. Ann M. E. B. Sharp