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Show President Rex B.Walker spoke on the subject of church service why we snould serve and the responsibility of every member to accept callings and serve in the church. He reminded re-minded members that calls to service in the church come through our Father in Heaven and that service to our fellow man is one of the things necessary neces-sary to the saving of our own souls. He expressed appreciation apprecia-tion to the members of the stake for their willingness to serve. Next on the program those in attendance were privileged to hear from two youth in the stake. Janice Marchant from the Peoa Ward talked on the subject, "What I've Gained from Attending At-tending Seminary. She said that the greatest gain came by way of a stronger testimony of the gospel which was acquired through listening, studying, hearing the testimony of others and through the experiences and examples of others. She was followed by De Loy Bitner from the Snyderville Ward who told why he wanted to be a missionary. He emphasized em-phasized that the main reason for going on a mission was to spread the Gospel. -He noted that this was a commandment of God and that many good things accrue to those who are involved in-volved in this work especially in the area of a stronger testimony. test-imony. President Marchant called on three individuals who were recently re-cently sustained to new positions posi-tions in the church for brief remarks. Gary McCormick bore his testimony and told how he ad acquired it and the changes that had come into his life through living the gospel. Reva Fitzgerald boreher testimony, gave thanks for her new calling in the church, and asked for the continued support of the members of the Stake. Rodney Maxfield expressed gratitude for the sustaining vote of the congregation and for his call to serve with the young people of the stake. He pledged them some choice experiences and related some experiences he has had with young people in the past. He also bore his testimony. Elder Reed Johnson attending attend-ing the conference as a representative rep-resentative of the general authorities, auth-orities, testified to the members mem-bers that the church is being led by those whom are indirect contact with the Lord particularly partic-ularly President Harold B.Lee. He briefly discussed some of the changes in the welfare program pro-gram of the church which he had covered in some detail in earlier earl-ier meetings. Brother Johnson also spoke on the principle of fasting. He pointed out that miracles can be brought about through sincere, sin-cere, proper application of this principle in our lives and that fasting should be done with a purpose. President Marchant was the concluding speaker of the conference. con-ference. He spoke to the group about setting goals and pointed point-ed out to them that the things we get done in our lives are the things weplanfor.setatime for and have as one of our goals. To emphasize this point, President Pres-ident Marchant cited the life of President Heber J. Grant, who through setting goals, planning, and persistent work was able to appreciably develop his abilities ab-ilities in the areas of penmanship, penman-ship, singing, and playingbase-ball. playingbase-ball. President Marchant used the quote that Nothing is more conducive con-ducive to arriving nowhere than to be going nowhere." He encouraged en-couraged the young people of the Stake to make long range goals and short range goals that will lead to these. Ainongthese goals especially for the young men, should be that of goingon a mission. mis-sion. This is the greatest experience ex-perience that can come to a young man, he said. The closing song was sung by the Primary Children's chorus and the closing prayer was offered by Jack Mitchell, a counselor in the Second Elders El-ders Quorum, following which the conference was adjourned. STAKE CONFERENCE HELD The quarterly conference of the Summit South Stake was held May 12 and 13 at the stake house in Kamas. It was under the direction of President Fred Marchant assisted by his counselors, coun-selors, Rex Walker and Lyle Peterson. In attendance at the conference representing the General Authorities of the Church was Elder Reed Johnson a Regional Representative to Sweden. The opening session of the conference was held Saturday at 4:00 p.m. In attendance at this meeting were the Stake Presidency, the Stake High Council, Ward Bishoprics and other priesthood leaders from throughout the stake. The program pro-gram for this session was concerned con-cerned with the welfare services ser-vices of the church. The keynote was given by President Marchant when lie quoted a statement given by President Lee at the last general gen-eral conference, "To show our love for God we must serve our fellow man." Elder Johnson representing the general authorities of the church gave instruction to the group regarding changes in the program of welfare services. Under the new system social services, health services and welfare services will be combined com-bined into one which will be concerned con-cerned with all the needs of the individual whether they be physical, phy-sical, mental, economic, or spiritual. The new program will be divided div-ided into three categories and more people will be involved in its administration at Ward, Stake and Church levels. The three categories are needs and resources, production, and personal per-sonal welfare. In his presentation which included in-cluded a filmstrip entitled "Man of Many Needs", Elder Johnson emphasized that no program in the church is more important than the individual that the individual in-dividual is the key to any of the church programs. It was pointed point-ed out that in the past, only 13 of those receiving assistance under the welfare program had performed work for that assistance assist-ance and that 60 of the assistance as-sistance had been given in cash. Elder Johnson pointed out that this was not the way the welfare wel-fare program was intended to operate and he emphasized that one of the principles of the gospel gos-pel was that all men should be anxiously and effectively engaged. en-gaged. This session of conference was closed on the note that welfare wel-fare services is not a program but the Gospel of Jesus Christ in action. The first general session of the conference convened at 7 p.m. Saturday May 12. Presiding Presid-ing at this session was President Pres-ident Marchant and it was conducted con-ducted by President Peterson. The theme for this session was, 'Let all listen that all may be edified." The opening song was provided by a stake youth chorus under the direction of Brother Maxfield from the Woodland Ward and accompanied by Sister Sis-ter Andrus from the Rhodes Valley Ward. The opening prayer pray-er was offered by Kent Sweeney Sween-ey from the Rhodes Valley Ward. A skit under the direction of Sister Deanna Page and featuring featur-ing George Padfield and his son Gary Kim was presented. It was designed to show the poor listening lis-tening habits that are so frequently fre-quently used in communicating with others. Following the skit a talk was given by Becky Atkinson At-kinson of the Woodland Ward in which she told what she had learned from the skit on listening. listen-ing. A talk was given by Richard Goodworth, a member of the High Council, on the topic "Listening, "Lis-tening, a Way to Reach Young People." He pointed out ttiat we can all learn much from listening listen-ing to the youth and that it is a good way to make friends of the young on an individual basis. Brother Kim Simpson of the Oakley Ward gave an inspiring talk based on personal experience exper-ience on the subject, "How My Life Was Changed by a Leader Who Listened." Elder Reed Johnson addressed addres-sed the congregation on the listening theme. He made many pertinent remarks on the subject sub-ject of listening, among them being, "a short pencil is worth more than a long memory" and we should take notes on the things we want to remember. "There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject only uninterested un-interested listeners." Brother Johnson made the observation that if we listen with the spirit, good thoughts and ideas can take root in our minds. He also made the interesting comment that some child custody decisions de-cisions in divorce cases are decided simply on the basis of which parent listens to the children. chil-dren. Elder Johnson admonished admonish-ed us that when we talk to the Lord in our prayers we should" also listen for his answer. The concluding activity for this session of conference was a film entitled, "Are You Listening?" Lis-tening?" It was introduced by President Walker. The film pointed out that 70 of our waking wak-ing time is involved with communication com-munication of some sort and that 45 of this time is spent in listening. It went on to portray por-tray some of the numerous, everyday errors we all make in this vitalarea of communication and gave alternative methods for handling situations where problems are inclined to develop dev-elop because we don't listen to each other. The closing prayer was offered of-fered by Alan Marchant, a Priest from the Peoa Ward. The final session of the conference con-ference was convened at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Summit South Stake House with President Marchant presiding and conducting. con-ducting. Prelude music was provided by the Stake Primary Children's Chorus under the direction of Sister Linda Osmond Os-mond of the Kamas Ward and accompanied by Sister Bessie Russell of the Rhodes Valley Ward. These children did a beautiful job of setting the proper tone for the conference. confer-ence. The congregation sang the opening song "Rejoice the Lord is King." They were directed and accompanied by brother and sister Robert Burns, Jr. of the Park City Ward. The opening prayer was offered by LaVan Walker, second counselor in the Third Elders Quorum. Stake business was taken care of by President Marchant and following is a list of the releases and sustainings which were effected. ef-fected. Releases: Dean Morgan, second sec-ond counselor in the First Elders Quorum; Ronald Smith, President of the Third Quorum Quor-um of Elders and his counselors coun-selors Dick Woolstenhulme and LaVan Walker; Vickie Flinders, Flind-ers, President of the Stake YWMIA and her counselors Barbara Burns and Barbara Skeen plus the entire YWMIA Board; John Crandall, President Pres-ident of the Stake YMMIA, his counselors Rodney Maxfield and Val D. Edrington and secretary Heber Dale Durrant, plus the entire YMMIA Stake Board. The releases in the MIA organization or-ganization were necessary in order to implement the new program of the church in this area. Also released were: Robert Burns Jr., Stake Music Director; John A. Lindsay and Elmer G. Stahle, Stake High Counselors; Tad H. Bingham, President of the 242 Quorum of Seventies and counselor in the Stake mission. Sustainings: Norman Miller, second counselor in the First Elders Quorum; John L. Crandall, Cran-dall, President of the Third Elders Quorum and his two counselors, Dick Woolstenhulme Woolsten-hulme and G. LaVan Walker; Heber Dale Durrant, President of the 242nd Quorum of Seventies Seven-ties and counselor to President Garold Atkinson in the Stake Mission; Rev R. Fitzgerald, advisor to Stake Aaronic Priesthood MIA-Young Women, and JoAnn Peterson as Laurel Leader, Barbara Skeen as Mia Maid Leader and Karen Landward Land-ward as Beehive Leader; Paul Brown, Stake Music Director; Fay T. Dearden and Rodney Maxfield, Stake High Counselors. Coun-selors. Under the new Priesthood MIA program the following sustainings sus-tainings were made from the High Council: Rodney Maxfield, advisor to Stake Aaronic Priesthood MIA; Paul Woolstenhulme, Wool-stenhulme, advisor to Explorers Ex-plorers and Priests; Marvin Lewis, advisor to Ventures and Teachers; Richard V. Good-worth, Good-worth, advisor to Scouts and Deacons; Jarel Hoyt, assistant assist-ant Stake Clerk and secretary to Aaronic Priesthood MIA; Fay T. Dearden, advisor to Special Interest group and Robert Gary McCormick, advisor to Young Adults. The first speaker of this session ses-sion was President Lyle Peterson Pet-erson who paid a tribute to mothers. He pointed out that the greatest gift we could give our mothers would be to keep our characters clean, pure, and spotless as when she brought us into the world. He emphasized that motherhood is an eternal calling and challenged all mothers moth-ers to magnify this calling. |