New stake presidency
- D Reece DeMille 5th Ward
- Brian Bowers 5th Ward
- Matthew Brady 12th Ward
(Only President Bowers is new. President DeMille was 1st Counselor and President Brady was already 2nd Counselor.)
Sister Bowers: “I’m a simple person, I don’t sing, I don’t dance, I don’t play the piano but I love the Lord with all my heart.” I loved her testimony.
Elder Jackson: Member missionary work—it’s about being a good friend. “Anyone can do that.” Well, some of us really don’t have the capacity right now now to be decent friends. Of course what that really means is that we have work to do on ourselves.
“How hard is it to invite someone over to dinner (really hard if you don’t know anyone) and allow them to feel the Spirit in your home?” (impossible if the Spirit almost never compatible with our home.)
The hard part is having any interaction with people who are not already members.
Elder Kyungu: General Authority Seventy who recently moved to America from Africa “I invite you to read and reread your patriarchal blessing.” In Africa they generally don’t have stake patriarchs because they have not been organized into stakes so they often don’t have opportunities to get patriarchal blessings.
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