To the Missionaries of the Great Texas Houston Mission,
It is breathtaking to witness the hand of the Lord as He works through you to work great miracles across this mission. We commend you as almost all of you accepted the challenge of 6 days of at least 15 ITLs and the fruits of been amazing. We want to give a special shout out to the College Station West zone for not being content with mission minimum standards and finding 50 new investigators last week. The Lord does His work as we willingly do ours. There is a disproportional increase in fruits as we do more than is expected.
We have more baptismal dates (at this stage of month) for next month right now than we have ever had for an upcoming month. Your faith, your fasting and prayers are leading to great blessings.
We look forward to the opportunity to gather with you and learn together from Elder and Sister Echo Hawk. In preparation for part of that meeting, we would like to request that you read Genesis 37,39-46 which is the account of Joseph who was sold into Egypt. We would like you to pay particular attention to the events that take place in Joseph's life and would like you to reflect on the following questions:
1. What did Joseph do to deserve the experiences he was asked to endure? Can you think of other faithful people who endured similar circumstances?
2. Why does the Lord allow faithful people to endure such circumstances?
3. How did Joseph respond to those circumstances?
4. What can we learn from Joseph's reaction to these events that can prepare us for any difficulties that we may encounter?
We trust you will gain valuable insights from pondering over these questions and counseling about them in your companionship studies after reading these chapters and any others that related to them.
We love you and are inspired by you!
Love,
President and Sister Mortensen
We held the 8 week follow-up training for the missionaries who arrived last July. It was a big group and it was an outstanding group. What wonderful missionaries already! Great teaching and a powerful spirit. Here are some pictures I took at that training.
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| The Assistants did a great job training on teaching the Doctrine of Christ in all we do |
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| Don't they look great?! |
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| My mom and sister were in town and got to see the mission in action. |
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| Lunch and new iPads |
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| Elder Barton and Elder Moon |
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| President got a good seat at lunch |
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| So many sisters in one place calls for a picture |
We received three new missionaries last week. What a great addition they will make the the THM!
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| Elder Nelson with Elder Christensen, Elder Michaelis, and Elder Davis |
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| They are wonderful! We are so happy to have them! |
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| Some training from President Mortensen |
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| Anticipating the Texas BBQ |
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| We know they won't go hungry here in TEXAS |
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| Elder Michaelis and his trainer Elder Whitlock |
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| Elder Davis and his trainer Elder Boekeweg and Elder McGinnis |
We attended District Meeting in the Harmony Building with one of the Spring Districts. Elder Chase did a wonderful job leading an inspiring meeting and counsel. Here are some pictures from that day.
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| Elder Chase in action |
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| Role plays |
