A new Minnesota Stake

This Easter weekend was stake conference for us. Our general authorities in attendance were Elder Dallen H. Oaks and Pres Thomas S. Monson. Pretty cool, huh? Well, actually their likeness projected on the screen. But they were in attendance, along with 60 other stakes in the upper Midwest. During the Saturday session, Pres. Paynter announces the creation of an eight Minnesota Stake. It is the St. Cloud Stake. Six of the wards from the old Anoka Stake are part of the new stake and we took five wards from the Minneapolis Stake and one from the St Paul Stake. The new wards in Anoka are Medicine Lake, Maple Grove, Cedar Lake, Crystal, Twin Cities 4th Branch (Hmong) and Dinkytown. We lost Alexandria, Buffalo, Elk River, Granite City, Princeton and St. Cloud. None of the ward boundaries changed. So now our stake has two stake centers and two Family History Centers. I wonder which building future stake conferences will be held in!