where Howard took up farming. Blessed with only one daughter, their married life ended four years later when Mattie developed pneumonia and died. A little over a year later, he married Amy Peterson in the Salt Lake Temple. Their union was blessed with nine children; three of which died shortly after birth and a fourth died from red measles when she was six. All four were girls. Howard farmed to provide for his family. He also served as Morgan County Treasurer and later as Morgan County Road Supervisor to help supplement the famrry income. Howard's motto was, "It's better to wear out than rust out." He was true to this motto, literally wearing himself out in the work of the Lord. On 23 December 1906, he was ordained a high priest and set apart as a member of the high council of the Morgan Stake by Stake President Daniel Heiner. Here he served for seventeen years. About one year after being called to the high council, Howard was given the added responsibility of serving as Superintendent of Religion in the stake. In this position, he served for six years. The responsibility of serving as Stake Sunday School Superintendent was extended to him in May 1911. As Stake Sunday School Superintendent, Howard was responsible to train the ward superintendents throughout the stake and see that they were fully staffed. On 9 December 1923, Howard was called to preside over the Morgan Stake; a position he would hold for almost nineteen years. He was called to this position by Elder Melvin J. Ballard, a member ofthe Quorum of Twelve Apostles. Throughout the years Howard served as stake president, Elder Ballard was a frequent visitor in the Morgan Stake. As a stake president, Howard received semi-annually a ticket to attend general conference. On a couple of occasions, he was called upon to participate in the conference. While sitting in the tabernacle 3 October 1926 (Sunday morning), waiting for the first session of conference to start, Howard was called by President Heber J. Grant to go to the Assembly Hall to speak. Bert Dickson recorded the following concerning Howard's talk: "We [Bert Dickson, and his two brothers, Rufus and Elbern] found a fair seat in the assembly hall, and sure enough our good and true friend was the first speaker. They always had a good shorthand to report as near as possible what every speaker said. President Randall started slow, made a wonderful introduction. Then he started and gave as wonderful a talk as ever heard, he was full ofthe spirit, and he held that crowd spell bound, never did I hear him speak better. Rufus said he is just as fine a speaker as we have in the Church, but look at the man taking short hand of what is said, the scribe just stopped and looked at President Randall, and never tried to take anymore of what was said. The scribe after the meeting said 'I was trying my best to keep up but it was so fast and wonderful. I forgot what I was there for and my heart just burned inside of me, what a wonderful man.' We told the scribe why he is our Stake President, the finest in the whole Church."