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Show "Make Your House, A House Of God" presiding Bishop Tells Members Of Roosevelt U.S. Stake "Make your house a house God." Presiding Bishop Jos. f Wirthlin told the membership f the Roosevelt stake last Sun-51V Sun-51V morning in their first genial gen-ial session of the final conference con-ference for 1953. Bishop Wirth-;n Wirth-;n was assigned to preside over, 1'ouncil with, and address the take conference sessions that Parted Saturday evening at 6:30 and continued through Sunday, ending with a special MIA program pro-gram at 7:30 "If you will make your house, house of God, then it must be a house of prayer; a house 0 fasting; a house of faith; a house of learnings a house of order; a house of work. There should never be a day begun in any Latter-day Saint home, or any other home for that matter, until the head of the household ,ias called his family together in prayer. Where a family nrays together there will be no division in the home," Bishop Wirthlin assured his listeners, i Continuing his remarks, the bishop elaborated on various points. He urged parents to take their parents to fast meeting, encouraging them to' bear their testimonies, and teaching them to observe the fast. "Teach your children that if a house is to be a house of order, then it must be in order both physically and spiritually. Each should be taught that his personal things should be in their proper place. Have a spiritual plan pay your honest obligations; take care of vour ward budget; tithing and fast offerings," Bishop Wirthlin faid- At the opening session of the conference on Saturday evening which was conducted by Russel lodd, member of the stake presidency, pres-idency, emphasis was placed on ward teaching. Those speaking I on the subject were Bishop Goi-den Goi-den Collins, of the Ballard ward, who told how the attendance atten-dance at ward functions had been strengthened because the families in his ward were visited regularly by the ward teachers Another speaker, who emphasized empha-sized the great need of teaching the gospel in the homes as official of-ficial emissaries of the bishop was Golden Tempest, an official in the Presiding Bishop's office in Salt Lake City, who was a companion of Bishop Wirthlin. Other speakers in the first session ses-sion were Gilbert Hullinger, a deacon from the Roosevelt ward; Dale Peterson, teacher from My-ton; My-ton; Bishop E. J. Nixon, of the Roosevelt Second ward, and Bishop Wirthlin. At 8 o'clock, a large group of senior Aaronic priesthood members, elders of the stake and wives of the two groups, plus wives of the Melchezedik priesthood who had attended the early meeting, joined in a special program arranged by the stake presidency under the direction di-rection of the visiting authority, who was the featured speaker. Others who bore testimonies as to what activity in the church ! had done for them were, Fred Amundson, a recent convert and i Mrs. Bernard Larsen, who told of the great joy that had come into their home since she and her husband had become active members. Two vocal solos were I sung Saturday evening by Cline Campbell, of Ioka, and Allen Gines, Ballard. A social concluded the activities activi-ties on Saturday, under the direction di-rection of Albert Harris and Ralph Shields, members of the high council. Thanksgiving was more or less the adopted theme of the speakers during the Sunday ses-siaons. ses-siaons. Impetus for this thought came from the special fast thanksgiving that had been called by President Hollis G. Hullinger and his councelors for that day. In view of the fact that Bishop Bish-op Wirthlin actually presides over the entire Aaronic priesthood priest-hood of the church, several young people were listed on the program, along with some adults who had recently come into activity, ac-tivity, or were converts. Speakers Speak-ers in addition to Bishop Wirthlin Wirth-lin and Mr. Tempest were Pres. Hullinger, his counselors, Russel Todd and Clifford Drollinger; Glen Stoddard, a deacon from Leota; Cline Campbell, teacher, Ioka; Lewis Littleton, convert of 6 weeks, Leota ward; and Mrs. Beatrice Lundberg, Ballard. Bal-lard. Two recently returned mis-mionaries mis-mionaries reported on their labors. la-bors. They were D. Piatt Woodland, Wood-land, Roosevelt Second ward, who labored in the West Central States, and Rulon Smithson, French mission, from Neola. The high priests quorum of the stake was reorganized Sunday afternoon when Leland Angus, president, along with Squire Mangum and Lionell Jensen, Jen-sen, counselors, and Louie Galloway, Gal-loway, secretary, were released. Phillip E. Russon was sustained as the new quorum president, with Austin Wardle and Otis J. Horrocks. as counselors, and La. Zell Henrie, secretary. The Sixth Quorum of Elders was also reorganized with Paul Howard, of Fort Duchesne, as the president. His counselors are Oliver Jorgensen and Grant Jarman, with Dradon Foster as secretary. Retiring president was Norman Holmes. The evening program was under un-der the joint direction of the young women and young men presidencies of the MIA and was a special award program to girls and boys in the stake who had achieved in their respective groups. i |