Elder Zachary Andrews: New Year's Goals

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, January 5, 2015

New Year's Goals

Sent Date: Monday, January 5, 2015
Author: Andrews, Zachary Jacob

President,
I am super excited for these coming weeks. There is nothing really going on, just us doing our job. The Zone is doing good. As you are informed Sister Roberts and Sister Baird are struggling with companionship unity. We are working with them and we are doing all that we can to help them, and in the end it is between them and the Lord. Elder Walker and I have been doing lots of finding. We have found some good people and are excited to teach them. We are working really hard to find and help our ward out. The Leaders in our Ward are super stressed. So us as missionaries have decided to help them in anyway we can.

Love ya see you on Wednesday.
Elder Andrews

Sent Date: Monday, January 5, 2015
Author: President Hansen
I feel like if we can get the members of ward leadership to be member present everything in the wards will improve.

New Year's Goals
Sent Date: Monday, January 5, 2015
Author: President Hansen

Dear Mission Leaders,
I love the leaders in this mission and I am so proud of each of you. As we begin a new year let's think about what we want to accomplish.Work with your districts to set goals for finding, teaching, baptizing, and reactivation. I gt a note from one of our district leaders who had made a goal with his district to teach and average of twenty lessons per week and the first week the exceeded that number. Goals are so motivational, especially if the missionaries have a hand in creating them.

Here is a part of his letter to me:
We set a goal as a district to get 80 lessons in one week this transfer and we accomplished it! My purpose for doing that was to get us to stretch and find more people to teach. And now the goal is find more people and use the members to help them. Basically get those 80 lessons into member present. That's our goal. I'm exited for the zone conference. This is an example of an inspired District Leader.

President Hansen

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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.