Show Make the gospel one Of leaders urge The advancement of the missionary program on a stake level was the general theme of the final 1959 quarterly conference of the Roosevelt Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day which con MAIN SPEAKER Edwin L. former Moon Lake stake was the featured speaker at general conference priesthood meeting last Saturday He urged fathers and sons to live closer last Saturday evening and In the absence of a member of the general all sessions of the conference were under the direction of Paul president of the stake and his two Floyd W. Labrum and Reginald O. Activities began on Saturday at in the form of a missionary Speakers at this session who treated assigned subjects pertaining to stake missionary included Keith stake mission Clifton N. high councilman and advisor to stake Omni president of the Randlett Indian branch and President Entire Priesthood Meets At 8 o'clock Saturday evening die entire priesthood of the stake met the second session with another assigned group of speakers discussing topics prepared by the general authorities of the church to be See CONFERENCE Back Page Missionary work Stressed at conference ire a teacher from Gordon a recently ordained Elder who be leaving next- to fill a mission in Northern Harold member of the presidency of the Quorum of President Murphy and Edwin L. Murphy of a former stake president at Moon and father of President In the feature address of the priesthood the former Lake made a plea to fathers and sons to form a close alliance with each other that would last throughout their is no better security for eternal life than for a dad and his son to learn to play and worship Murphy as he challenged his listeners to live the gospel of Jesus Christ and your that clean living is assurance of He related many personal exper- that illustrated the power the priesthood can command in Two Sunday Sessions Following a musical presentation by the Neola Ward Choir under the direction of LaZelle and Thad President Paul Murphy keynoted the opening session by urging the nearly 1000 members of the stake who were present to make the gospel of Jesus Christ a gospel of He related phases of the Savour's life to Illustrate his and thanked those of leadership in wards and stake for their support during the six months he was Other speakers included El- der Kenneth who returned to his home on Saturday from the Western States mission where he labored over two the past six months as a member of the mission He related experiences while serving and bore a burning testimony of the missionary He is a son of and J. Rulon His father was a along with Karl senior member of the seventy Bishop Lee Jensen of Neola Theron stake Primary Bruce seminary Ariel and Evan New Youth Program I In the afternoon President Labrum elaborated on other important needs for intensified missionary and Curry pointed out that almost every activity carried out by the auxiliaries could be defined as missionary He explained a new program to be carried out in the stakes of the church to help unmarried people from 12 to gain instructions and build their A giant fireside will kick-off the program on for all stake members of these Other afternoon speakers were Kendall Clark Abegglen of the Myton Ward and Gilbert a member of the high The finals of the stake speech festival featured the MIA sponsored program Sunday A full story will be found In this week's Standard on this |