Show Top Attendance At Conference An time all high record attend attend- attendance ance packed the stake taber taber- tabernacle nacle node Sunday for the morning session of Ashley stake confer confer- conference ence Chairs had bad to be placed down the aisle to accommodate the 1483 persons present a total of 38 per cent of the stake memo mem- membership The high attendance earlier had been 37 per cent ELDER ELCER BRUCE R IL McConkle McConkie of tile the First Council of Seventy was the visiting General Auth Auth- Auth Authority lie He had recently served as mission president in Austra Austra- Ua lia lIe announced also that he had served as a missionary ear ear- bier lier when the late Don B Colton of Vernal was a mission dent Elder McConkie stressed the eternal nature family and ask aski d if parents attention was centered on the family or else else- elsewhere where lie He urged parents to have all the children their health would permit and not limit them for financial reasons The visiting officer said it is ismore Ismore more difficult to raise children today than ever before in the history of the world HE AVERRED there are more wrong enticements today than before World War II and and cited lewd movies television commercials paperbacks and radio to some degree lIe said that the Church home evening program is a tool to bring children up in light and truth lie urged the to make one of their alms aims having baving all their children married in the temple Other goals he listed were having sons go on missions and girls also iI I they were not mar ned ried earlier Stake President Wm B Wal Wal- Wal Wallis lis conducted both the 10 am and pm sessions Donnell Wardle WardIe stake chorister conduct conduct- conducted ed the congregational singing and Mrs Roger Hacking stake organist accompanied SPECIAL selections at each session were provided by the Stake Singing Mothers directed by Mrs Keith Adams and ac ac- ac accompanied companied by Mrs John Smith The group also sang prelude selections The opening congregational song in the morning was Come o 0 Thou King of Kings and Chad Orton offered the ion tion C Laurence Fox first coun coun- coun sebor in the Stake Stae Presidency conducted the conference busin busin- business ess Released were Brent Drent A Feltch stake clerk Jack A Seltz Seitz stake mission president with Floyd Bodily first counselor David D B Hall second counselor and Dan W Turner clerk Sharleen White and Nera Batty Stake Board SUSTAINED were Rondo A Sullivan stake clerk Wilma Davidson and Donna Merrill Stake Primary Board Cliff Per Per- Perkins kins Stake Board Nel Nd- da Cook and Lela Hullinger Stoke Stake Board David B Hall hail stake mission president with Floyd noyd Bodily first counsel counsel- counselor or Lynn Thomas second cows cows- and Sheldon Galley secre secre- secretary tary It was reported that there are 29 foreign missionaries 15 stake missionaries and 23 men in the armed services The Stake Singing Mothers sang How Lovely Are Arc Thy Continued on page 8 Continued from page 1 Dwellings President Wallis expressed his appreciation to all the stake workers lie He reported that 48 had been collected toward the new stake center which he said will be a monument to faith and devotion lie related the curse laid on Israel due to worshiping strange gods and ald the calling of f Elijah who learned that the Lord is in the still small voice C LAIRD a memo mem ber of the Priesthood Home Teaching Committee outlined The he home teaching program of The Church and the family home t the t bless bless- blessings les ings at an ideal ideal home home lie He said that nil all the Influences in the home cannot be controlled controlled ed but counteracting influences un can be created to the able The rest song was Love at Min Home Following Elder McConkie's address the Singing Mothers sang One World with Mrs Tren Hirschi singing the solo part Ramond Peterson offered the benediction The opening congregational song was Let Us Oft Speak SIak Kind Words and John Howarth offered the Invocation THE SINGING Mothers sang We Ever Pray for Thee Our Prophet Dear w LaMond Tullis second counselor In the Stake dency stressed the importance of training children In the home and not giving them to lists entirely The home is most important and other fac fac- fac factors tors should be only tal President e t Fox Fox emphasized the necessity for members of the Priesthood to carry the fam fam- fam fly ily home evening lIe also out out- outlined outlined lined other Priesthood duties I Mrs Oa J Cannon of the reo re- relief lief Society General Board point point- ed out that the family home evening teaches children love for good wholesome things and keeps them active in the Church She stressed the importance of having the mother at home when childr children n are there DAVID B HALL the new president of the stake mission related the parable of the tal tal- tal talents and the need to keep active in the Church The rest song was We Are Sowing Ralph high council m man an in charge of the Seventies and missionaries s spoke lie He averred that there is great neg neglect led lect in developing talents lIe He asked what would have happen happen- happened ed to our great inventors dis- dis discoverers dis coverers and other great men it if they had not developed their particular talents lIe listed arn among 1 them the Columbus lIs and p Lin- Lin coin Elder McConkie was the con eluding speaker who discussed in my Fathers Father's house are ninny many mansions lie He outlined the requirements and blessings of the three degrees of glory Glade and Connie Southam who are attending the College of Southern Utah in Cedar City brought her brother Douglas Cook and his grandparents Mr and Mrs Elmer Gibson to Ver Ver- Ver Vernal nal for the weekend where they visited Mr and Mrs Morris Cook Douglas had come as far faras faras as Cedar City with the parents of Elder Bell another mission mission- missionary ary in Central America |