Prepare! Work! Teach!
Dear Elders and Sisters:
It was such a blessing to be with you in Zone Conference
this past week, Sister Clark and I offer our sincere appreciation to you for
coming prepared to receive and leaving changed, rather than simply entertained.
We are grateful you choose to be great Book of Mormon and Preach My
Gospel Missionaries and sincerely appreciate that you will seek to "Find
when you Teach" Less-Actives and Part-Member families. You are
hereby "unleashed" to do so. We believe as you do so, you will
experience what the Assistants taught, "Baptisms in Bulk"!
This focus to "Find when you Teach"
Less-Actives and Part-Members cannot come at the expense of anything else.
You must continue to find on your own always having your
Line-in-the-Water and always, always Opening Your Mouth! Don't allow
anything else to slip or slide. Just do more! Sacrifice more and
the Lord will give you more!
Yesterday we were blessed to visit with Elder Jackson
Frame, a former CFM Missionary. He shared that he had visited another
mission recently where he went out with the Elders to work. He noted how
they didn't Open their Mouths to Everyone. He couldn't be restrained
because that was how he was trained. After a few hours, the Elders he was
working with told him how amazing the experience was and how they were going to
Open their Mouths to Everyone! I encourage you to keep the "Flame of
Faith" burning brightly in regard to how you Open your Mouth to everyone
and always have your Line in the Water! This will be the foundation of
your increased efforts to "Find when you Teach" Less-Actives and
Part-Members! No backwards walking here, my friends! Only forward!
Onward and upward in this great cause!!!
We were blessed to be in Porterville's Stake Conference
Saturday and Sunday with Elder Gregory A. Schwitzer of the Seventy. Elder
Schwitzer presided over one of the Siberian Missions in Russia, which
geographically was larger than the continental United States. He was
later called to the Seventy and is a Member of the Missionary Committee. He
said something that really impressed me about our teaching as Missionaries and
the need to "Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts". He shared
that Investigators who are taught how to repent by the Missionaries are more
likely to get baptized and more likely to remain faithful in the
church...because they know how to repent! He further said they are seeing
evidence that Missionaries who "Teach Repentance" baptize more
converts!
There is always much to do, remember, and remain focused
on, isn't there! There seems to be a sequence here that blesses.
Can you see it? It is PREPARE by becoming great Book of Mormon and
Preach My Gospel Missionaries! WORK by having your Line in the Water,
Opening Your Mouth to Everyone, and Finding when you Teach, be it Investigators
or Less-Actives and Part-Members! And TEACH Repentance [to] Baptize
Converts!
Isn't it great to be a Mormon Missionary, especially in
the great CFM where we work diligently every day to accomplish these things and
more! And this we do to show the Lord our love and appreciation for Him
and His infinite sacrifice for us. We do it because we love Him! It
certainly is a great day to be a CFM Missionary!!!!
We love you, pray for you always, and have every
confidence in you as Servants of the Lord, Jesus Christ!
With much love,
President Clark
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