Administration of Keith Rawle Little On Saturday, 11 March 1972, Keith R. Little was in his work clothes pruning roses and planting flowers. He was well aware that something was happening at the stake tabernacle, for he was the stake executive secretary. However, he did not believe these things would concern him much at that time. At about 11:00 a.m. he received a phone call, however. Elder Gordon B. Hinckley wanted to see him. President Raymond P. Larson, who was calling told him, "Come down to the tabernacle." "But I'm in my dirty clothes," President Little responded. "Well get out of'em!" said President Larson. In a few minutes President Little was before Elder Hinckley. "I just had to see who this 'Cotton Little' was that everyone's been talking about," said Elder Hinckley. He then proceeded to interview Keith Little. "It was like no interview you've ever had," said the President, "they just dissect you and lay you out on the table." After the interview, President Little went home, put on his dirty clothes and started again to work. Later in the afternoon, Elder Hinckley called again, asking him to come down again, this time with his wife. When he got there, Elder Hinckley said, "Well, you're not much to look at, but you're all the Lord's got," and he called him to be president of the Morgan Stake, succeeding Raymond P. Larson, who had served for 19 1/2 years. With the call, he was told to choose six new high councilors to replace the six most senior high councilors, and he was to choose his two counselors and be back in forty-five minutes. Also, he was to choose new clerks. This was no small order, according to President Little, because Roy Francis had served for fifty-four years as stake clerk. His work had been monumental in the development ofthe Morgan Stake. Because ofthe length of service and because ofthe poor health of his wife it was thought advisable to release him as stake clerk. When President Little returned he had chosen Dale C. Wilson, Jimmie Merrill, Verl Poll, Albert Carrigan, Garth Palmer to serve as high councilors with John C. Johnson as an alternate high councilor. He had in mind the names of the men he wanted for counselors, but when Elder Hinckley started talking to him prior to his naming these men, his "choice changed immediately." Robert W. Walker, who was quite new to the Valley at the time, and who had earlier been called to the high council, but who had not been sustained, was chosen as first counselor. Eugene Jones, who was then serving as bishop of the Mountain Green Ward was called as second 20"/