Elder Zachary Andrews: Add English to the List

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, April 28, 2014

Add English to the List

That trip [to Mesa Verde] seems so awesome! I know you have been talking about doing it for some time now. That is awesome that you finally did it. So we got transfer calls last night and they said that Elder Hale and I would be splitting up and getting new companions but we will still be in the area because Prez. wants two sets of elders in the West Bank area. The reason he is doing it is because the English Elders that are in the West Bank haven't had very much success in the last six months and we are busting our butts trying to find enough people. So now we will be able to talk to whom ever we see. I will not get a new comp until tomorrow when we go to transfer meeting. As well we don't even know if we are getting split up for sure but it is really likely. I will be living in the same apartment and Elder Hale will live just south of me in the English elders apartment.

Our investigators are busy; really busy, we didn't really see very many of them this past week. Especially because we have been on splits trying to figure out where English people live so we can teach them. Edwin is good, couldn't come to church cause he had work, I hope that he comes to English class tonight. Lucia is awesome and will always be awesome, still just waiting on that stupid divorce. Victor is a new guy that just came to church and we are going to see him today actually, he is a member but his wife is not neither are his kids. There are others like Josue, Maria, and Claudio but it is all the same story.. sorry I am busy. We are working really hard.

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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.