Amos Franklin Pace serves a mission

When Eugene was 18 months old, a letter from the headquarters of the Church (came) calling Amos Franklin Pace to serve a two-year mission to the Southern States. What a test of faith this was to this little family. Here they were, just starting to payoff a farm, buy livestock and work the ground to get the farmland productive. There was never a question of whether Frank should go ... of course he would go! The faith of this wonderful couple was strong and they knew the Lord would bless them if they did His work. And bless them He did; perhaps not with worldly or temporal wealth, but with eternal and everlasting wealth in a family of faithful children, all married for time and eternity in the Temples of the Lord.

Frank left for the Southern States Mission on 23 October 1907.  

Emma carried on this great responsibility of caring for the family, seeing to the planting and harvesting of crops, doing chores, herding sheep on the hillside, keeping up farm payments, and everything else that had to be done. Alvin was 7 years old and he became a big help with the chores. Alma Pace came to live with the during the winter months to help and to attend school in Coalville.
Emma did not deprive her children of their church activities, nor of the opportunity to grow in the gospel. She would hitch up a team of horses and into the buggy they would pile, and off they rode to the ward house 2 miles away. What a wonderful woman with such faith! Frank filled an honorable mission and returned home 25 months later on 13 November 1909.