In Sync With The Lord
Dear Elders and Sisters:
I want to begin by telling you how much I love you and
how appreciative I am for the way you are following the Lord's Inspired Vision
and Trainings for this Mission. Thank
you for your faith and sustaining acts of obedience. I can feel such a strong spirit of love and
diligence from this Mission and can see the Lord's Hand in this great work of
salvation - especially as I witness it being done in His way. I believe He has entrusted us to be leaders
and examples of how to participate and keep pace with Him in the Hastening of
His work!
Saturday and Sunday we were blessed to be in Modesto's
Stake Conference with Elder Johnson of the First Quorum of the Seventy and
Elder Acosta of the Seventy. In the
Saturday evening session he very effectively demonstrated what we are to be
doing with Members to assist them in their Member Missionary effort. He had Elders Dixon and Reid simply teach one
of the principles from Preach My Gospel and afterward ask: "As we taught,
what name came to your mind who would benefit from this message." It was wonderful for the good Sister had
received a powerful manifestation that her friend Kristen would benefit from
this message and gave the information to the Modesto 4 Elders. Elder Johnson
finished with this observation; "It is so easy to do Member Missionary
Work as the Lord is Hastening His work.
Just let the Missionaries teach you the Lessons and the Lord will reveal
to you which of your friends or acquaintances He (the Lord) has prepared to
receive the Gospel." This is why the Lord's Inspired Vision for this
mission would have us Teach when we eat with the Members and: "Who has the
Lord revealed to you?". This is why the Lord would have WCs work to get us
Teaching appointments with active Members in addition to Teaching them when
they feed us.
This is yet another evidence and testament that the Lord
is Hastening His work. He has prepared
His children to receive and will simply reveal to the Members who He would have
them share this message with. Our duty
is to bring the spirit into their home by Teaching them one or some of the 41
principles in the Preach My Gospel Lessons 1 - 5. I encourage you to do this in this way.
Please Teach and Testify of the principles in Preach My Gospel and then ask:
"Who has the Lord revealed to you would benefit from this
message?" Don't ask: "Who do
you know?" That is old and tired.
And don't try to set it up or manipulate them to a name. Simply Teach the Lessons and then ask who the
Lord has told them would benefit from this message.
I hope relaying this experience will give you courage to
work with the active Members as has been outlined in the Lord's Inspired Vision
for this Mission. It demonstrates the
power of your set apart abilities to Teach and the power of the Lord's ability
to reveal to the Members who they should introduce to the gospel. It also demonstrates that the Lord has sent
us to assist the Members in their covenants to be Member Missionaries and how a
tiny force of 245 called and set apart Missionaries will assist a much larger
force of 16,000 Member Missionaries in their calling to share the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
The following excerpt from one of your letters is a very
inspiring account of how the Lord will bless us to Find, Teach, Baptize, and
Rescue His children. "This week was
great as we have seen many miracles. During this week we went to visit a less
active member in our area who had a stroke during the week and his face did not
look good at all. He requested a blessing. We gave him a blessing and shared a
message with him and his wife about how the atonement works. Then this Sunday
he came to church for the first time in a long time and he looked perfectly
fine. He also brought with him his family and 2 other families. One of those
was a less active family also. It was around 16 people in total. He wants us to
teach those people. We have been asking in prayer for the Lord to help us find
those prepared families and He answered our prayers. Things are going really good
as we found 9 new investigators this week 3 of them through members. The
members are really trusting us and giving us great support in missionary
work."
I bear you my witness that as we follow the Lord's
Inspired Vision and Inspired Trainings we have received, He will bless us and
the Members to Find, Teach, Baptize, and Rescue! Thank you for doing so and thank you for
being Worthy, Obedient, Committed, and Focused and serving with No Regrets!
Sister Clark and I love you dearly and pray for you in earnest!
President Clark
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