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Show 'I I ItrI ' Weekly Church Edition SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 2, 1943 . f ' A i Conference Programs Announced 4 - a j Stake Sessions For 1943 To Simplify Traveling . keeping with the emergency conditions relative to transportation, travel to jneetings of quarterly-conferenc- es i during 1943 should be reduced as much as is feasible, according to instructions from the general authorities to stake presidents These instructions are issued in a smalt' folder entitled, Program for Stake Quarterly Conferences 1943 sent to stake presidencies by Pres. Rudger Clawson of the Council of the Twelve . p Ttie instructions concerning"" the conferences states that during the emergency, conditions make it necessary that travel fo meetings shall be reduced as much as feasible, hence-a- il meetings oT conferences in scattered and rural stakes will usually be held on Sunday. A letter accompany- ing the folder explains that this shall be done elsewhere if extensive auto travel is necessary to reach the meetings. Also this problem can be met V -- They want their friends to attend Sunday School on Jan. 10, so Joyce Murdock, 11 and her br other j Thomas Franklin Murdock, 7, children of Bishop and Mrs. Franklin J, Murdock , matt special invitations for the Bring a Friend to Sunday School day, set .aside by the general board. Sunday Schoo s Sugg es t P Ians For "Bring A Friend" Sunday, Jan. 10 I to ward and branch superintendents of Sunday Schools for the making of a successful Bring a Friend to Sunday School project' , on Jan. 10, are issued today by the - General Board. The project is to be held throughout the Church on Sunday, Jan. 10, with the exception of those stakes in which Quarterly Conferences are tp be held on that Sunday. In these cases Superintendents are urged to postpone the Bring a Friend project until the following Sunday, Jan.-- 17. It is felt by the General Superintenden-cthat such a project would be pouch more successful when npt In conflict with a quarterly conference session. - The ten suggestions to superintendents throughout the Church are SUGGESTIONS y as follows: t , 1. Ask your enlistment director, Trees From Hill Cumorah "Unite" Historic Spots plains just the-Josep- , , Mor-monis- A 3 A - . sire - I day - -- V. -, . - The folder gives instructions for- the holding -- of priesthood" sessions w hen the" conference's visited by a member of the Presiding Bishopric or the. First Council of Seventy, and when visited by members of the Coun-- ; cil of the- - Twelve pr Assistant to the Council, of.fhe Twelve. Those attend- ed by the latter two groups will be MelChizedek Priesthood conferences and will usually be six months apart. Attention of-th- JU - -- per-Son- , session "an With your, bishops permission, s invite request ward teachers-t- o in their respective districts to at" tend Sunday School Jan. 10.- 4. See that Bring a Filenrf Sun- is announced in other wrard day tmeetings before Jan 10. . Make contact with local "j.tr newspaper (s) with request to publish 'articles and pictures, if possible, on your (Bring a Friend Sunday. Appoint a special reception com mittee to greet newcomers at the dgor ' onJSupday, Jfn. 10- .- 7. Assign two and one half minute -e talks - appropriate - to the theme Such topics a"What day. School pas Done" For The Purpose and Aims of Our' Sun-- " day School may be treated. 8. Take care that preliminary exer- cises will be well executed, with devo. tional music, etc. 9. Eftcourage teachers to be especially well prepared with lesson on and to Bring a.' Friend Sunday, briefly preview the course for 1943. . 10. Ask teacher to give a special jin- vitation to newcomers to attend Sun day School each week thereafter. the-Sun- conference 4 A public conference session Sunday 'afternoon or evening afternoon meeting is not feasible. 5 Such other meetings with stake officers and workers as may be ar ranged by the visitors' A full attendance of ail paka priestbood officers7-stakeprieVQipOi committees, quorum and' ward cers at the stake priesthood meeting shpuld be especially urged, 'A ifpriest hood members may attendf they do?. l JT public Sunday forenoon. " 3. h 1 stake priesthood meeting at convenient time, preferably Sunday morning in scattered and rural stakes. 2 A stake Welfare meeting. 27Ask teacher.wnd pUpils to mail invitation cards or letters to prosnec- tive members, and follow thesp jhn with a personal visit before. January ' 10th. ; .1. , conferences are: a ment Tolls, ward clerks record and names submitted by students in the classes. The teacher might then assign names to all members tof the coin- - vision of Elder Owen T. Howard, of " in The area Malad, Idaho, and his' family.' . In the exchange of trees, in the jiave . t . Eastern area, two fifteen foot sugar linked together two of the most nn- were taken from the Joseph' "maples portant landmaiks of Church history. Smith farm to the Whitmer farm, and During the planting season upwards Ti rcd maplo tOv Hill Gumorahv as a of 70 evergreens, shrubs and rose- bushes were taken froin the forests part of the Relief ..Society centennial In return Norway" spruce, ar- and grounds of Hill Cumorah and and bitter sweet Plants t)or transplanted on the Peter Whitmer been have taken from Hilf Cumorah farm, where the Church was organto Smith farm ; Tzed, April 4, 1830. Other features of .the beautifica-- . ..The. transplantings included"50 .lion pr ogham included the planting of - evergreens, ranging- - lit height front' eyergreens - and shrubs from Hill five' to fifteen feet. The collection in- -" Cumorah at the Martin Harris farm, cllided whitet yellow and Scotch pine, , and the Cumorah arid Sampson farms, trail arbor vitae, Norway spruce-anadjoining Hill Cumorah, both part of were taken trees The Ing juniper. the Church property 'in that section. from Hill Cumorah to relieve overA similar program for next spring crowding in some areas. will take sqme twenty evergreens . several varieties, from Hill Cumorah to the Joseph Rose busfies-r- of bitter sweet(bridal wreath and other Smith farm and vill include transvarieties of shrubs and flowers were planting more than a hundred along also taken to the birthplace of the road slopes leading to the Angel monument Moroni Is which upder the super0EAUTIFICATION pleted for the e : if you have none, a member of the superintendency, to supply each teacher with a list of prospective new members and their addresses for - each class in the Sunday School. Sources for these names may be the enlist- or' class. f by calling to the Priesthood meetings only offirersr . The meetings to be held L. D. S. Servicemen reading room, writing room music and game facilities are pro,1 vided for-yoleisure time enjoy. S ment at the Home Service Men, 41 North State Street You are invited to use the facili ties daily from 4.30 to 11 pm. and Saturdays-anSundays from 1 pm. to 11 p jn. You and your male friends are urged .to use these comfortable rooms in your leisure time. A- - For-L-D- -- I |