We Are
Finders! It’s Who We Are!
Dear Elders and Sisters:
There is a wonderful spirit brooding over this mission
right now and it seems to be driven by Missionaries' desires to find people to
teach. This quest for New Investigators
is really helping Missionaries better live their Purpose and have greater
desires to do the work. A few examples:
1. Recently the Assistants felt inspired to go with two
companionships in an area with a goal to talk to 100 people. After working hard all day, they had talked
to 153 people. There are people to talk
to in any area!
2. After our weekly Zone Leader call, two Zone Leaders
got down on their knees desiring to know how to help their Zone become better
finders after a week where their entire Zone only found six New Investigators
(NIs). They felt guided to challenge
their Zone members not to stop working that day until they had each found a NI.
At the end of the day they had found 11
NIs. There always are NIs to be found!
3. Saturday there were two Zone Meetings. The Assistants attended one and Sister Clark
and I the other. Each of them ended with
a finding activity which yielded tremendous results. We need to always be finding!
I note that there is a great pattern in the way PMG is
outlined and organized. If you step back
from the words on the pages, step back from the chapters, you will note and
instructive order to how it is laid out and organized. To this end note this. The very first thing, of all the "first
things" the Brethren could have chosen to talk about in this great volume
they chose to talk about finding people to teach and how they are and will be
prepared to receive:
"You are surrounded by people. You pass them on the
street, visit them in their homes, and travel among them. All of them are
children of God, your brothers and sisters. God loves them just as He loves
you. Many of these people are searching for purpose in life. They are concerned
for their families. They need the sense of belonging that comes from the
knowledge that they are children of God, members of His eternal family. They
want to feel secure in a world of changing values. They want “peace in this
world, and eternal life in the world to come” (D&C 59:23), but they are “kept
from the truth because they know not where to find it” (D&C 123:12)."
(PMG chapter 1, page 1, paragraph 1)
While we want to work through the Members to help them
rescue LAs and find people to teach, we cannot be excused from our duty to
always be finding. Always! If we are here on the Lord's errand,
dedicated to doing His work His way, and recognize the pain of regret will be
to have not served diligently and in exact obedience, then we will always,
always be finding! With faith and our diligence
coupled with our exact obedience, He will put people in our path and us in
people's path whom He has prepared under the hastening of His work to receive
the gospel of Jesus Christ. And as we seek to bless each of our respective
areas/wards/branches to achieve their inspired goal for baptisms, we will be
blessed to do so if we are always finding people to teach. Nothing happens in Missionary work until you
find someone to teach!
And with all the recent focus and emphasis on finding,
may I gently remind you that it needs to be "Who We Are versus What We
Do! Well done CFM! Way to go great leaders! Excellent work to you our wonderful
Missionaries!
Go Find truth seekers, Teach repentance, and Baptize
converts!!!!
With much love,
President Clark
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