June 1991
More than 7,000 members of the Church
attended the Independence
Missouri Regional Conference May 12 in the Municipal Auditorium. The gathering
of Latter-day Saints was perhaps as large or larger
than gatherings here in the 1830s when the Church was headquartered briefly in
Members came from the Kansas City, Mo., metropolitan
area and from Topeka, Kan. Speakers included President Howard W. Hunter of the Council of the
Twelve, Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Council of the Twelve and Elder Graham W. Doxey
of the Seventy.