Elder Zachary Andrews: Fish Stories

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, December 22, 2014

Fish Stories

DEC 8

This week I went on an exchange to Covington and then to Mandiville to solve some problems that were going on. It was super cool. I met this guy and he TOLD US A FISH STORY, about him catching 47 foot long fish. Super funny. He must be a really good fisherman. It is really cool to help out their district. Life is good. Life is awesome!!

We also had ZTM this week it was really good. We had a lot of things to talk about but it was really interesting and spiritual. Super awesome. Life is super awesome. I am super tired but it is cool.

OK well this is what it is like being a Zone Leader: all is fine and dandy if you have good district leaders. If you don't then you end up taking on the problems of the district. We have 4 districts and 30 missionaries. It is cool, I like the challenge. It just means some days we are so tired that we come in and crash in our church clothes. Also it is hard to teach people when you are helping lots of missionaries. Problems are typically like people watching movies, staying out too late. But more than that it is comps that don't get along. Sorry I am running out of time.

If a missionary is down, you have to find out why. It is usually for three reasons

1. Disobedience. Life sucks when you are disobedient.

2. Problems at home. With that all you can do is build their faith, obviously I am talking generally if you ask me this question later I can give you a bigger explanation on all these things. and

3. They don't understand why they are here.

I am exercising, not as much as I want but as much as I can with my limited time. I am super tired by the end of the day but I am finally sleeping through the night so I wake up ready for a new day, new adventures and new problems.

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.