New York New York South Mission. As mission historians we were able to attend a special stake conference held at Queens College in Queens, New York. Over 1000 members were in attendance.
Thr purpose of the conference was to create a new stake out of the last remaining district in the mission. The Lynbrook Stake was created taking The old Lynbrook District plus parts of the old Queens Stake and parts of the Plain View Stake.
The Queens Stake was renamed the Woodside Stake to more accurately reflect its geographical location.
The new Lynbrook stake 
presidency, with names of De Rosa, Shin and Anderson, reflects the diversity of the area. At least one stake presidency member speaks English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, French, and Italian. They will need all of those languages and more to serve the needs of the stake members.
The new state president reported that there are approximately 140 languages spoken in New York south area, with approximately 10 million residents.
A special choir at stake conference sang a hymn in English, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese.
The church here is quite different than the white, Anglo-Saxon, English speaking church we find in the Rocky Mountain West.
We enjoy the diversity. A lot of the growth of the church here is among people with a different race, culture and language then we bring. We like that. This is truly a worldwide church, and New York is a great melting pot.
That is amazing. I can't even comprehend 140 languages. You are having a great experience!
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