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North America West and Northwest Area Broadcast June 25 2019 North America West and Northwest Area Broadcast Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Salt Lake City, Utah © 2019 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Version: 8/19 English PD60009639 000 Printed in the United States of America North America West and Northwest Area Broadcast North America West and Northwest Area Broadcast June 25, 2019 I promise you that if we will do our best to restore the correct name of the Lord’s Church, ELDER KEVIN W. PEARSON—HOW WE He whose Church this is will pour down His CAN INCREASE CONVERT BAPTISMS AND power and blessings upon the heads of the RETENTION Latter-day Saints, the likes of which we have Brother and sisters, on behalf of the Area never seen. We will have the knowledge and Presidency, we extend a warm welcome to each power of God to help us take the blessings of of you joining this Area Presidency broadcast. We the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to every express our love and gratitude to you for your nation, kindred, tongue, and people and to faithful and devoted service to the Lord and to His prepare the world for the Second Coming of Church. We pray constantly for you and your fami- the Lord.1 lies. Thank you for joining us this evening. We have Surely this includes the North America West and asked Elder Scott D. Whiting, First Counselor in the Northwest Areas, which as of August 1, 2019, will Area Presidency, to offer an opening prayer. be known as North America West. Thank you, Elder Whiting. Tonight, we will discuss how we can access His As an Area Presidency, we are grateful for the way great power to grow His Church. Each member of you have embraced the area plan introduced in the Area Presidency will address a key topic central October of 2018. We see evidence everywhere we to this vision. Our messages have been formatted go of your efforts to emphasize the area vision to so that they can be used separately for additional “be a light unto the world by becoming a true disci- training and discussion. ple of Jesus Christ and joyfully help others to follow President Nelson has declared that the gathering the Savior and receive the blessings of the temple.” of Israel is “the greatest challenge, the greatest cause, As we continue to teach with love the importance and the greatest work on earth.” To the youth of the and joy of daily personal repentance in becom- Church he said: ing true disciples and ministers, keeping sacred covenants and enjoying temple blessings, helping You were sent to earth at this precise time, the the Church grow, and encouraging the rising gen- most crucial time in the history of the world, to eration, individual faith will be strengthened and help gather Israel. There is nothing happening lives will be blessed. Your inspired leadership and on this earth right now that is more important service are making a significant difference! than that. There is nothing of greater conse- quence. Absolutely nothing. We may not be able to control the economic and social factors that influence why members of the This gathering should mean everything to you. Church move into and out of our area, but we can This is the mission for which you were sent 2 exercise faith and the power of the priesthood in to earth. growing the Church wherever we are. As President Those are bold and impressive statements. He has Nelson has recently taught: further stated: “Our message to the world is simple 2 and sincere: we invite all of God’s children on both say that with concerted effort, with recognition of sides of the veil to come unto their Savior, receive the duty which falls upon each of us as members the blessings of the holy temple, have enduring of the Church, and with sincere prayer to the Lord joy, and qualify for eternal life.”3 President Nelson for help, we could double [convert baptisms].”5 Do has further emphasized that the gathering of Israel you believe that? We absolutely do. includes missionary work for the living, temple Last October we asked full-time missionaries to ordinances for the dead, and deepening conver- dedicate the hours of 5:00–7:00 p.m. each day to sion for the living. If this is the greatest work on the finding more individuals, especially families, to earth, how do you think we are doing in your stake, teach. Missionaries should be constantly finding ward, or branch? Are we organized for success? Is all day long. However, 5:00–7:00 p.m. is premium the greatest work on earth getting our best efforts? finding time because that is when most families Recently, President Nelson declared: are home. “Nothing happens in missionary work until you find someone to teach.”6 Since October, Our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, will missionary finding efforts have increased in most perform some of His mightiest works between areas by 39 percent. But finding scattered Israel is now and when He comes again. We will see not the same as gathering Israel. Member finding miraculous indications that God the Father and efforts are significantly more effective than mis- His Son, Jesus Christ, preside over this Church sionary finding. However, our missionaries simply in majesty and glory. But in coming days, it will must find, teach, and baptize more people if we are not be possible to survive spiritually without to grow the Church. the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.4 Most missionaries only teach one lesson a day. To become effective teachers, they need to teach Brothers and sisters, we have been earnestly seek- 15–20 lessons each week. Therefore, we have ing that influence, guidance, and direction as we asked missionaries to meet with members in their seek to grow and strengthen the Church. We pray homes each night from 8:00–9:00 p.m. and teach that you will join us in pleading with the Lord to them a lesson. By doing so, missionaries can dou- grow and strengthen the Church in your area. ble their teaching experience and end each day on We believe that there is more that we can and a positive note by teaching, testifying, and using should be doing about the “greatest challenge, the power of the priesthood to bless those who cause, and work on earth.” We believe that the Lord have faith. This helps missionaries become better, will provide miraculous assistance in proportion and it allows members to see missionaries at their to our faith and trust in Him and our willingness to very best. We hope this will also encourage more follow correct principles and patterns in our stakes members to be a light unto others and to simply and wards. We have gathered to discuss how we invite them to come and see and to come and help. are doing and to establish a vision, goals, plans, ac- Thank you for the support you are giving this initia- countability, and urgency to improve. We invite you tive. Improving finding and teaching is the first step to discuss these same principles in your stakes, in our efforts to grow the Church. wards, and branches and to establish a vision, In April we met with the Area Seventy and with goals, plans, and accountability to truly make this the mission presidents and their wives to discuss the greatest work on earth! changing our approach to teaching, conversion, Years ago, President Gordon B. Hinckley prophet- and retention and placing greater emphasis on ically declared, “I am not being unrealistic when I member and leader involvement. This was the 3 second step in our efforts to grow the Church. • Most eligible adult male converts do not re- Here are just a few key findings that suggest we ceive the Melchizedek Priesthood. have significant room for improvement: • Only a small percentage of new converts are • Over the past six years we have experienced a endowed. significant decline in convert baptisms in our If we keep doing what we have been doing, we area. will keep getting the same results. We need a new • The vast majority of all the wards and branches approach, one that combines the best efforts of in the area had fewer than three convert bap- missionaries and members under the priesthood tisms last year. keys of the stake presidents and bishops. Brethren, • Missionaries receive fewer than one member you are the key to success. referral per week. Let me suggest a different vision of the work. • Missionaries are only teaching three investiga- Currently, the missionaries are finding, on their tors per week and do not involve members in own, only 1–2 new people to teach each week. their teaching. This graphic reflects the fact that the average time Teaching focuses more on lessons than on • between teaching appointments with those inves- creating personal spiritual experiences and tigators is 10 days, with little to no improvement relationships with members. by members. As a result, most investigators drop Surely one does not need to look far to conclude the missionaries after the first two lessons. Clearly, that we can do much better. The fact is, mission- missionaries need to improve their teaching skills. ary work is being done primarily by full-time mis- But there is something even more obvious miss- sionaries without much member involvement. The ing. Members. The involvement of members in the keys for missionary work and for temple and fam- finding and teaching process completely changes ily history work are held by stake presidents and the dynamics and the results! When members get bishops, not by the missionaries.
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