4% William W. Francis Miller, and David A. Smith (Presiding Bishopric) visited the Morgan Stake. Most of these brethren came on several different occasions. Conference lasted two days with two sessions being held each day. From 1901 to 1905 stake conference was held on Sunday and Monday. This same format was followed during President Fry's administration. Starting in December 1905 stake conference was held on Saturday and Sunday, a practice that has been followed to the present time. During the two days of conference, stewardship reports were given by the stake presidency, bishops, Melchizedek Priesthood quorum leaders, and stake auxiliary presidents. If there were any returned missionaries, they were called on to give brief reports of their missions. The sacrament was always passed during one of the Sunday sessions. In a typical stake conference in the Morgan Valley, members of the stake presidency and the visiting authorities would give inspiring doctrinal messages and in addition would give practical advice concerning the planting of crops and daily living. Temporal affairs were often discussed in the early Church meetings. ' '"(7864-1941)" On Sunday, 13 March 1904, only one session of conference was held because the roads were impassable from the severe weather. But poor roads were not the only problem to keep the Saints from attending stake conference. Working on the Sabbath, distance from the stake center, and general apathy of the Saints were all factors in poor attendance at stake conference. President Heiner struggled for many years to increase attendance. Elder Rulon S. Wells in September 1904 stated that "he regretted that so few were at conference." He then remarked that "when nine-tenths of your congregation is absent, there is something wrong. He did not mean to say that men and women should be to every meeting, but it should be their first consideration to their duties in the Church."'President Heiner also expressed his concern that the attendance was so small. He felt the ward teachers and bishops were not doing their duty and that this in part accounted for the small attendance. Only a few statistics are available for the attendance during the early 1900s. They reflect an average of about eleven percent attendance at the Sunday session. The Sunday session was usually better attended than the Monday session or, later, the Saturday session. A note at the side of the minutes indicates that there were no conferences held between November 1913 and May 1914 because of smallpox in the Valley. The minutes do not tell of the personal heartache of families who fought the disease. Many notable stake conferences were held. Elder Reed Smoot explained in the March 1901 conference that "the land of Zion will be purchased and