Our greeters this afternoon were Marlene and Dave Larson.
Conducting: Earl Bleak Snow.
Announcements: trunk or treat this Tuesday, October 25 in the pavilion behind the church 6 o'clock
Primary program will be next Sunday, October 30
Stake Temple day Saturday, November 5
Stake priesthood leadership meeting will be held Saturday the fifth at 4 o'clock here at the Southgate stake center (the Manzanita building)
The adult session of stake conference will be held Saturday, November 5 at 7:00 PM (the Manzanita building)
Youth and their leaders will meet at 8:00 AM on Sunday, Nov 6th (the Manzanita building)
General stake conference will be held Sunday, November 6 at 10:00 A.M. (the Manzanita building)
Fast Sunday, November 13
Friends of Scouting is going on right now. You can donate online or contact a member of the bishopric or Brent Heaton.
Book of Mormon study for next week third Nephi chapters 16, 20, and 21.
Invocation: Delaine Anderson.
Sustained: Ken Pearson as assistant ward clerk.
Our speakers today were Trudy and Gary Larkins. Trudy
gave a brief history about her & Gary. Among other things Gary served as a mission president of the southeast Malaysia mission from 2003 to 2006. This included five different countries. They were on a plane a lot and were told later their airtime equaled flying around the world 11 times. Then they served in the temple presidency in the Los Angeles temple from 2011 through 2014.
Her topic was "it's never too early and never too late." She told us that we cannot let our family do a makeover in the world's image & that in third Nephi the Savior blessed the children and prayed for them and presented them to the multitude saying "behold your little ones." Children are strong choice spirits that were saved especially for this time. In Doc & Cov we are told to "stand in holy places and be not moved. Temples, churches and homes are holy places with the temples being the most holy places on earth.
As a temple matron she saw a lot of new brides and suggested that they need to pay more attention to the endowment which teaches us what we need to know to return to Heavenly Father.
Gary's topic was "Covenants" which is The key difference between us and other Christian churches. In Doc & Cov 84:33-53 we are promised "everything the Father hath will be ours" if we keep our covenants. He encouraged those who are not endowed to meet with the bishop and prepare themselves to receive the endowment. The Atonement allows us to be clean again.
He also told us that heavenly father is aware of each one of us and told us about a young girl, Ricasa who lived on the island of Borneo. Her mother died when she was 16 so she went to live with an Aunt whose husband tried to molest her. She ran away with nowhere to go and no one to care for her and found a man who ran a frui tstand. She begged him for a job which he gave her and then she begged him to let her sleep in the tiny room behind the stand which is what she did for a couple of years. Then her life changed. Two Young man in dark suits showed up and taught her the gospel. When she turned 21 she went on a mission to Singapore where Larkins were serving as mission presidents. President Larkins sent her out with a missionary companion from Utah; eight weeks later they had 16 people ready to be baptized. When he asked the missionary from Utah what she had done she said she hadn't done anything; it was Recasa who spoke the language and had the Holy Ghost with her. In that area they are now baptizing between 500 and 1000 converts a year. A senior couple came to that area from BYU Hawaii and made arrangements for Ricasa to attend, then she ended up in Salt Lake City at general conference and is now engaged to be married in the temple.. God knows everyone of us and wants us back!
Benediction: Glenda Hacker 
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