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Show 3 Car! Imbeck, left, Detlev Sufke, Christiana Cierpka, Dr. Rudolfo Cierpka, and Dieter Menssen, members from Germany discuss conference. Conference: Where All The World Is Gathered eneral conference is a conference of many faces. And those faces come from all over the world. The messages from the Genera! Authorities are a polyglot of tongues. Translators work busily beneath the Tabernacle broadcasting the words of counsel as they come from the speakers. And seated in the main congregation are members of stake presidencies and bishoprics from throughout the world. Attending the 139th Annual Conference were stake and ward officers from Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Asia, the Abelardo Rojo. They are from Montevideo Stake. Vu South Pacific, and Australia and New Zealand. Many of these men attended the annual reunion day for the officers at Brigham Young University where they met and counseled with students from their respective areas. For Bishop Salomon Osnaya of San Pedro Matir Ward and Bishop Andres Quezada Ruiz of Churusbusco Ward in Mexico City It was a day of enrichment, both spiritually and mentally. They met with one of the two students from the Mexico City Stake who attends BYU and also chatted and counseled with students from Guatemala and El Salvador who didnt have a representative at BYU. Bishop Osnaya is a sales manager for a British publisher of school text books. He has been a bishop for three years and was born into the Church. My ward has 260 members and our main problem is the travel time for our teachers in MIA. It takes so long to get between the chapel and their homes, Bishop Osnaya said. He and Bishop Ruiz said how they felt the spirit of the Lord here at this campus. I am very grateful to my stake president for letting us come here, said Bishop Osnaya, who was spokesman for both men. Bishop Ruiz speaks no English. To Bishop Ruiz happiness was an afternoon touring through the chemistry labs at BYU. He is a chemist for a firm in Mexico City and his desire was to see the research equipment at the university. There were ward and stake officers from the Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin Stakes in Germany who received counsel on operations of their otfices in addition to the conference talks. I think the problems are the same for a stake president whether he serves in Salt said Pres. Rolf Lake City or Stuttgart, Knoedler, first counselor in the Stuttgart Stake. He added that there is a lot of interest in the Church In his area, noting that the press usually covers stake conferences or visiting authorities. Pres. Rudolf Cierpka, a counselor in the Berlin Stake, compared the world today with the world in the time of Noah. The people of the world have got to turn to God if we are to have peace. They are like the people in the time of Noah. There also are members of the Church who say the Church expects too much of them. The Church doesnt expect too much of them. They are Just too lazy and they do not want their comfortable hves interrupted to do what the Lord has told us to do, said Pres. Cierpka. Pres. Carl Imbeck of the Hamburg Stake agreed with Pres. Cierpka emphasizing that the leaders of wards and stakes must work harder to Impress upon the members the need for keeping all the commandments and improving their talents." For Bishop John Murphy of the Hamilton Second Ward in Now Zealand, transportation is the biggest headache. He believes the lack of transportation for ward members keeps his percentage down." His ward is 10 miles long, but apparently this doesnt dampen the enthusiasm of his ward members. His ward is consistently at the top of the stake In home teaching. Bishop Murphy said the greatest bless- Coo turned page 15 Pres, and Mr Gataiala No |
