should wait. After a meeting in Salt Lake City with Elder Peterson, it was decided that they would wait. A year later, on 17 December 1961, the stake presidency attended sacrament meeting in the Slide Branch, at which time they released Samuel F. Hopkin as branch president, closed the branch, and combined the members of the Slide area with the Croydon Ward. "This move was made necessary because of lack of activity and willingness to assume leadership among so many of the members in the Slide."49 The building which had at one time been sold to the ward by the Ideal Cement Company for one dollar was turned back to the company. In a short time they demolished it and the rubble was hauled away.50 Other Ward Boundary Changes—In January 1955, letters were sent out to those in Stoddard, North Morgan, and Morgan announcing ward boundary changes. The Weber River became the boundary line between North Morgan and Morgan, and Stoddard was attached to the Milton Ward. For years there had been no definite boundaries between the Morgan and North Morgan Wards. Taggart's Camp was left as part ofthe Morgan Ward, while the North Morgan Ward extended to include the home lived in by the George Smith family on Highway 30. The change became effective 9 January.51 As early as February 1968, plans were discussed for a division of the Peterson Ward. A year later, on 23 March 1969, the ward was divided. The division took place under the direction of President Larson and his counselor, Donald Brough. The new ward was named Mountain Green. It had a membership of three hundred eighty, leaving the Peterson Ward with a membership of four hundred. The dividing line between the two wards was Dry Creek. Blaine Lundquist was called to be the bishop of the Peterson Ward with Dean Grissel and Otto Pendleton as counselors and Lee Rollins as ward clerk. Eugene Jones became bishop of Mountain Green with Dale Smedley and Chester Crowther as counselors. Clerks chosen were Vem Gale and Leo Hansen.52 During the twenty years that Presidents Larson, Jensen, and Brough served as the members ofthe stake presidency, they effected the calling of twenty six new bishops in the various wards ofthe Morgan Stake. These were always special occasions. When Clifton Wayne Jenkins was sustained as bishop of the Peterson Ward, the Saints there received another blessing. Elder Theodore Turtle, a member of the First Council of Seventy, was passing through the area when his car stalled on the highway. While the car was being fixed, he attended sacrament meeting in the Peterson Ward. After the new bishopric was sustained, Elder Turtle spoke to the people.53 Missionary Work—On Sunday, 23 October 1966, President Larson recorded in his journal: "I went over to North Morgan to a missionary testimonial for Tom Thackery. He is going to South Africa. This will be the last farewell as such since the First Presidency have asked us to discontinue regular testimonies." Though this policy change was significant, it has been difficult to get the Saints to accept it.