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Show PI. Grove Stake Holds Conference Last Week A near-capacity crowd filled the Stake Center for each split session of the Pleasant Grove Utah Stake Conference, held Sunday, Sept. 8. Theme for the conference centered around the home and the part it plays in developing responsible individuals. individ-uals. President Leon R. Walker Walk-er presided over and conducted the meetings. Kenneth H. Gillman and T. Ardie Adams of the Stake Presidency Pres-idency addressed the conference, confer-ence, stressing the importance of fasting and praying in order to receive special blessings both upon the appointed Fast Sunday and upon other occasions occa-sions when the need arises. They spoke of the importance of observing the fast in the spirit in which the Lord gave the law. Ted S. Young and Bishop Gordon Allred spoke of the responsibility re-sponsibility of bishops in calling call-ing missionaries into the field. Preparation for a mission begins be-gins early in the home, they emphasized. Other speakers who followed follow-ed the theme of missionary preparation and service were Genevieve Roberts, Roberta Peterson, E. Mack Palmer, John Gourley, Sherill Tomlinson and Richard Brown. Larry Black-hurst, Black-hurst, Gene Campbell, Thomas Larson and Lorna Burnett also spoke. In summarizing the conference, confer-ence, President Walker stated the Church needs 40,000 missionaries miss-ionaries in the field, more than double the number now serving. serv-ing. Opportunities are opening for missionary service in countries coun-tries whose doors had previously prev-iously been closed to the church. ' President Walker announced that 36 missionaries had been called from the Stake in the past three months. He plead with those at home to sustain the missionaries by living the gospel. Special music for the sessions sess-ions was presented by a combined com-bined priesthood chorus, directed direc-ted by Harrison Powley, who also conducetd congregational singing. Irene Jenkins accompanied accom-panied ;all numbers, as well as furnishing prelude and postlude music. Business of the conference included the release of Thomas Thom-as Larson from the high council, coun-cil, E. Mack Palmer, alternate high councilman, Verna Bean, president of the Relief Society, Dorthella Blanchard and Joyce Story, counselors, Grace Giles, secretary and Relief Society board members, Cheryl Johnson, John-son, Carol Giles and Donna Walker. Also released were Gene Campbell, Stake Mission president, pres-ident, Eugene Maag and John Gourley, counselors, and Lor-in Lor-in Bone, secretary, together with Timothy Humphries, president pres-ident of the 44th Quorum of Seventy. Sustained were E. Mack Palmer, Pal-mer, high councilman, John Gourley and Larry Blackhurst, alternate high councilmen; Francis Hadocck, Relief Society Soc-iety President, Ila Tomlinson and Doris Ford, counselors, Geraldine Hiatt, secretary; Re-Nae Re-Nae Ashton, Linda Gillman and Verland Saling, members of the Relief Society Board. Sustained as Mission President Presi-dent was Eugene Maag, with H. Dale Johnson and Kenneth Robbims, counselors. The presidency pres-idency of the 44th Quorum of Seventy included Kenneth Rob-bins, Rob-bins, Lorin Bone and Walter Maughctn. Earl Giles was sustained sus-tained as assistant stake clerk. Prayers for the sessions were offered by Keith Roberts, Ronald Ron-ald Anderson, V. Kerry Ashby and Randy Adams. At the Saturday evening Leadership Lea-dership Meeting, various speakers spea-kers develope dthe theme "Making "Ma-king Family Home Evening Succeed." |