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Show . . . ~ ... nearly the entire community into the chlir ch. An1ong those being bapti~ed wa$ the Methodist pastor, who, on being ordained to the priesthood was made the presiding elder of the · Heywood Branch and the church edifice he had pre ... viously uee;l, ·®W became a Mo·rmon institution. · Arid who was the stranger? To Elder John Morgan he was none other than one of the Three Nephites and the entire e)(perienee was the fulfillment of a promise ..... a dreatt:t come trl.le. Later , Heywood Valley was the site of the first conference of the newly organized Southern States Mission under the presidency of John Morgan. It was there that President Morgan, bet -n: en the first and fourth days of June 1878, wrote his fi rst m:issiona.ry tract, the *':.Plun of Salvation" which is still ge.nerally used in missionary labors throughou.t the wor ld. |
