Elder Zachary Andrews: TP PW: Go for Gold?

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, May 19, 2014

TP PW: Go for Gold?

Sent Date: Monday, May 19, 2014
Author: Andrews, Zachary Jacob

President,
This week was slow but good non-the-less. Elder O'Donnell and I are getting along swimmingly, Never understood that analogy, but like it. Some might dare to say that we get along too well. We came to realize that we needed to be a little bit more diligent. So we took the opportunity to push ourselves and go for the Gold. Almost if on a queue we got cancelled on across the board. Now I am used to being cancelled on that is just a fact of missionary work, but with our already shallow teaching pool too many cancels and we are in real trouble. So here we are with our renewed sense of diligence and absolutely nothing to do. So we determined to continue on as normal and fight for every square inch, we didn't get far. We did this for the majority of the week but then about the time our heads were going to explode we get a call, it was Armando Falcon, the family that my trainer Elder Mellor worked with his whole mission. He needed our help.

We helped him and then the next day he wanted us to come over, which is nothing unusual, not to be prideful or anything but they love me and I love them to death. It will be hard to leave them but I am here to do the Lords will not my own. I am rambling. Point is that we helped them out a lot this week and then last night they invited their friends over to have a family home evening the spirit was so strong. This little story just grew my testimony that God, the most powerful, awesome, all knowing Being in the world, is helping me. It makes my hands tremble to type those words. Pardon the french but WTF that is crazy! The funny thing is... He never lets me forget it. And I don't imagine He will.

Elder Andrews,

P.S. Life is good, the District is good, i am sure Elder O'Donnell has filled you in on all the details, he adds a little bit to his weekly letter everyday... don't know if i was supposed to tell you that but oh well. I am reading out of the Book of Mormon but after playing basketball for 4 hours for some reason it is hard to remember what I was going to share with you.

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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.