[Earl is sitting in the middle of a couch with a full time missionary on either side. A distinguished looking man named Philip Silver sits in a comfortable chair across the room. An elegant coffee table separates them.]
“Do you have any questions Mr. Silver?”, asked Elder Gorda.
“Well, there has always been a question I have […]
Coach Bronco Mendenhall was on the Jim Rome Show, a national sports radio show, earlier this month. His interview showed how great a tool BYU football is for missionary work and it reflects Bronco’s awareness of his responsibilities as the head coach of BYU’s football team. During the interview, Bronco said, “Football here is such […]
I’m finally getting to a post I have been wanting to write since General Conference. There were many thoughts running through my head as I decompressed from the wonderful messages that we received, many threads that I saw in the counsel. One of those threads was missionary work.
Valerie joined the church several years ago. She was pregnant, and came to church alone. Her husband had no interest in the church. She hoped that some day he would show some interest, and in the meantime was hoping to raise her first child in the gospel. Her parents and brother were also hopeful future […]
One of the full-time missionaries currently serving in our ward recently received some sad and disturbing news. His father committed suicide. It has been known that his father struggled with depression. His mother left for a few minutes to run some errands, and while she was out, his father shot himself in the head. The […]
This weekend was our local Stake conference, and the priesthood section focused on home teaching and inactive members. One of the speakers uses a great analogy to briefly discuss a problem with our church.
He noted (And I am paraphrasing from memory): “We can bring as many members as we want into the church [and I […]
So I thought I might throw in some missionary thoughts also. Unfortunately I really don’t have any spectacular mass conversion stories to pass along. Baptisms in my mission were modest in number. One of the experiences I remember often is teaching a family in southern Georgia. The father of this family was named Roosevelt Givens.
He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
There was once a sower who went to a foreign land among strangers to sow. Some seeds fell by the wayside and birds came along and ate them. Some seeds fell among stones on hard ground and sprang up quickly, but when the sun came up they […]
It is rare for me to come across full-time missionaries that I really like. Most of the missionaries I come across are quite forgettable, others are memorable for the wrong reasons. Living in a small and somewhat isolated ward missionaries are hard to avoid. There was a long stretch when we had three sets serving […]
I have been gone on vacation for a little over a week. I was visiting my parents in Western Wyoming. The timing of the visit worked out well, because just as we were preparing to leave my parents received their mission call. They will be serving in the Kenya, Nairobi, East Africa mission. I am […]
