Elder Zachary Andrews: Exciting Week

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, March 10, 2014

Exciting Week

Feb 24, 2013

This was an exciting week. We committed Jouse and Javier to be baptized!!! They both have more work to do, but I have confidence that they will be ready so that next month they will join the Church and become what our Father in Heaven wants them to be. This week was hard, probably the hardest week of my entire life, but it was worth it. This week we spent a lot of time in the slums. That is where a good amount of Hispanics live. Anyway life is good church is true, that much I know without an doubt. Gods loves us so much that it makes my head spin.

love,

Elder Andrews

PS Yes I got the package thanks. And nothing much happened. Just when people are drunk they are make bad choices, and it is so annoying.

PPS Yep I am great. Just like always! I am happy! I am healthy! I am broke because I bought some shirts on my mission card so now I am out of money for a few days. So that just means that I have to eat rice.

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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.