Elder Zachary Andrews: Problematic Bike, Great People

THE VISION OF THE SOUTH

"Make no small plans: This is the vision I have for the South. I believe that one day the South will baptize more people into the church than all other English speaking missions in the world together....We will see the time when we will baptize hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands...In your day you will see a million members of the church in the South. There will be temples plural in the Southern States. What a great call you have to serve with these marvelous people." President Spencer W. Kimball

Monday, August 26, 2013

Problematic Bike, Great People

This week we went on exchanges so I was with the other elder in our district, Elder Mastche. It was fun. We met this family that is so prepared. We taught them the first lesson and they ate it up! They wanted more. It was fantastic.

Then I came back to my area and back to my bike. I have had so many bike problems; it is crazy. Every week is a new problem. I fix it and then we are off. I have developed something that I find effective: I never complain. I just crack jokes. My companion thinks I am the funniest person in the world because I am always cracking jokes because something is always breaking.

We have two progressing investigators that I want to talk about: Lucia and Norma.

Lucia Falcons is one of my favorite people on the planet. She is waiting for Armondo's divorce papers to go through so they can get married. They have two kids together and she has one kid (Samuel, 17) from another man. We go over to their house all the time and it is so fun. Samuel has become one of my best friends even though he constantly is laughing at my horrible Spanish

Norma is awesome too. She is married to a less-active but now they both come to church all the time. They are so cool. Norma is going to be baptized on the 7th. She will be my first investigator to be baptized. Elder Mellor will baptize her. I am so excited!!!!!!!

Love you all,

Elder Andrews

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Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission

The first branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in New Orleans with 334 members in 1841. The prophet Joseph Smith sent the first missionary to New Orleans in March of that year. After reaching 169 members in 1849, the New Orleans branch disbanded because of the threat of serious disease in the area. The Southern States Mission, which included Louisiana opened in 1878, but the first missionaries were not sent to the state until nearly 20 years later. Missionary work spread throughout the state during the early twentieth century and by 1930, there were 1500 members. The first ward was established in Shreveport in 1953 and the first stake in New Orleans in 1955.In 1975, the Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission was created and by 1980, there were over 12,500 members in the state of Louisiana. By 1989, Louisiana had 22,000 members in seven stakes. In 1998, the First Presidency announced the building of a temple in Baton Rouge. That temple was dedicated on 16 July, 2000.The Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission extends from Natchitoches South to the East and West borders through the state including the Gulf of New Orleans. The mission also includes the South West corner of Mississippi including Natchez, Liberty, and Macomb.