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President Spencer W. Kimball presided over a trio of area conferences in England and Scotland, imploring every young man to serve a mission.
The area conferences were held June 19-22, 1976, in Manchester and London, England, and in Glasgow, Scotland.
"There have been many young men who have felt they didn't need to go on a mission, that it's an American job," President Kimball said during the meetings. "That's no so."
"We're not going to relieve the American boys at all. Do you know how many we need for 4 billion people? We can use all the missionaries we can get."
To attend the conferences, members of the Church in outlying areas organized into caravans of buses, which in London, where some 10,000 attended the sessions, filled a parking lot by the dozens, according to the June, 26, 1976, Church News.
Before the conferences, President Kimball and several General Authorities traveled to Preston, England, where the prophet presided at the creation of the Preston England Stake (see page 11).
Preston was a special spot for President Kimball because his grandfather, Heber C. Kimball, opened missionary work in that community in 1837.
