Tornado season approaches, and with it a storm of new missionaries! Many Oklahoma City missionaries are taking on new responsibilities in response to the influx of young missionaries. i was overwhelmed and excited when my mission president asked me to train a new missionary even though I have only been out for eleven weeks. It is amazing to watch my 19 year-old companion work miracles! She prayed with two ministers on her very first afternoon of proselyting, and we taught six new investigators and set two baptismal dates during her first week. I doubt that she know how powerful she is, but I find it thrilling to watch the hastening of the work from an insider's perspective.
These young missionaries seem to me a fulfillment of Isaiah's prophesy, as related by the Savior in Third Nephi 20:16 --"Then shall ye, who are a remnant of the house of Jacob, go forth among them; and ye shall be in the midst of them who shall be many: and ye shall be among them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, and as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver." Isaiah's poetry makes missionary work sound rather violent, but my eager young companion said it well when she proclaimed, "We are going to tear this area apart!"
And that is what we are striving to do.
Sis. Stewart- greetings from England! I know something of the fire you're talking about in these young elders and sisters flooding into the field. Totally awe inspiring! Those are some pretty inspiring events you two are a part of!!! Here's a hug and high five from Preston! Sis. Meese
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