The missionary objective of these meetings is to report, plan, and coordinate assignments to find, teach, fellowship, and activate.

My dear Ward Missionaries. Perhaps the following will help you feel the calling from the Lord to do the best you can with your personal circumstances to get to know your assigned families and develop those friendships.

“When the Lord delivers this person to your view, just chat—about anything. You can’t miss. You don’t have to have a prescribed missionary message. Your faith, your happiness, the very look on your face is enough to quicken the honest in heart. Haven’t you ever heard a grandmother talk about her grandchildren? That’s what I mean—minus the photographs! The gospel will just tumble out. You won’t be able to contain yourself!” (Jeffrey R. Holland)

“Sometimes … we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain. … The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers—even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.”

David E. Sorensen  |  “Faith Is the Answer,” Ensign, May 2005, 73

Topics: Fasting, Missionary Work & Preparation, Obedience, Trials

But remember, the Lord has never required expert, flawless missionary efforts. Instead, “the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind”…The important thing is that you don’t give up; keep trying to get it right. You will eventually become better, happier, and more authentic. Talking with others about your faith will become normal and natural. In fact, the gospel will be such an essential, precious part of your lives that it would feel unnatural not to talk about it with others. That may not happen immediately—it is a lifelong effort. But it will happen.

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf  |  Missionary Work: Sharing What Is in Your Heart

Topics: General Conference 2019, Missionary Work & Preparation

Planting these seeds with others and within ourselves is our decision. Are we planting good or bad seeds? God-like seeds that will someday blossom and lead our path to Jesus Christ? Or, are we spreading seeds of eternal destruction and growing paths of evil seeds that lead us the opposite direction of Jesus Christ?planting good or bad seeds? God-like seeds that will someday blossom and lead our path to Jesus Christ? Or, are we spreading seeds of eternal destruction and growing paths of evil seeds that lead us the opposite direction of Jesus Christ?

I love each of you. I witness to each of you that your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you. They will assist you in your efforts to simply plant seeds.

May the good Lord bless each of you in your personal lives. May he bring peace, charity, health, revelations and the righteous desires of your hearts. In Jesus name Amen.

Steve Larsen

801-380-8307

sglarsen@gmail.com