Immediately following the interview, the General Authority will report confidentially to the Stake President either favorably or unfavorably upon the fitness and preparedness for a mission of each of those interviewed. The Stake President will then forward without delay the approved recommendation. If this procedure be followed carefully, the receipt of missionary recommendations, medical examination blanks, and reports of interview will be expedited, and early consideration of prospective missionaries for missionary service can be given by the First Presidency.80 Over the years it appears that missionary work on a stake level was handled in various ways. For example, at a stake presidency meeting held 27 November 1927 it was decided to ask the elders quorums in the stake to take charge of the missionary work in the stake.81 In 1936 "A New Plan of Missionary Work in the Stakes of Zion" was launched under the direction of the First Presidency of the Church. The First Council of Seventy made recommendations to the Quorum of Twelve 12 March 1936 concerning missionary work in the stakes. The Twelve made some modifications of the proposal and then sent it to the First Presidency who approved it 23 March. The proposal contained the following items: (1) a mission was to be organized in each stake under the general supervision of the First Council of Seventy, (2) the First Council of Seventy would operate directly through the stake president, (3) the mission in the stake would be under the direction of a mission president who should preferably be a seventy but maybe a high priest, (4) the mission president is recommended by the stake presidency and approved by the First Council of Seventy, (5) missionaries to be employed preferably be seventies but high priests and women may also be called to serve, (6) the mission should be divided into districts with a seventy preferably over each, (7) each mission will report to the First Council of Seventy through a prescribed reporting system, (8) calls for missionary service are made by stake presidents after consultation with bishops and the stake quorum of seventy, and (9) the stake mission president is authorized to release missionaries after consultation with the stake president.82 Frank Turner was sustained as the first president of the Morgan Stake mission on 28 June 1936 and was ordained a seventy by Elder Rulon S. Wells that same day.83 On 8 September 1937 a special meeting for all seventies in the stake convened at 8:00 p.m. at the stake office, J, Golden Kimball, Rulon S, Wells and Rufus K, Hardy of the First Council of Seventy were in attendance and presided over the meeting, Thirty-one men representing the Morgan, Porterville, Peterson, North Morgan, Richville, Croydon, Slide, and Milton wards were ordained seventies in the thirty-fifth quorum of seventy. Six of the seven presidents of the quorum were released and new brethren called and given the opportunity to serve. Elder Wells and Hardy each spoke. Their message was on the fellowship of the seventies and the responsibility of missionary work.84 139