Elder Zachary Andrews: Be the Other Option

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, February 16, 2015

Be the Other Option

This week we have gotten lots of referrals and I mean lots. It is super awesome to have the members do the finding for us, cause we can knock doors all day and often we do. But I am super excited to see how the referrals we got turn out . Our Ward Mission Leader has been asking us to ask for more and more referrals so we have and are seeing blessing from it.

This week I was reading in 2 Nephi 2 and I was struck by verse 16:

16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.

I really like this scripture cause it talks about lots of different things, One, it talks about how we have the ability to choose. But not to choose anything. We are to choose the options that are in front of us. That is super cool because WE need to be the people to entice the people to do the right thing so that they can choose. It is my job to put that other option in front of people so they can choose! And it is each and everyone one of our responsibilities to do that and we can't fail as long as we invite!

Love ya,

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.