Elder Zachary Andrews: Dear President Wall, Exactly Obedient

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

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Dear President Wall, Exactly Obedient

Sent Date: Monday, September 9, 2013

Author: Andrews, Zachary Jacob

President,

I really enjoyed our interview on Sunday. This week has been slow, it seems like everyone has been canceling on us and that is hard. But it was a good week I working on becoming exactly obedient, and little by little I will reach that goal. I have been reading in the Book of Mormon almost everyday trying to finish by the tenth. Norma was the star of the show this week because of her baptism and all the little things that we had to do to get her ready for that day. And now we are going to start doing the member lessons with her. I don't really know how to go about that and Elder Mellor has made it clear that he would love to try but that he doesn't think it will work. But we are going to try anyway. We are really working well together and it is a shame that he is going home but someone else will take his place and they'll be great.

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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.