PAYSON 10TH WARD MISSIONARY COORDINATION: May 17, 2025
- sglarsen
- May 12
- 5 min read
Updated: May 17
He is Risen !
As President Nelson has urged us to help on both sides of the Veil.
It is very important that all the following people are at the stake coordination meetings! All listed below are invited and encouraged to attend.
The following includes the Ward Mission Leader, Stake High Councilor over missionary work, Stake Relief Society Representative over Missionary work, Elders Quorum and Relief Society Representative over Missionary work, Primary presidency representatives, and one Young Men’s and Young Women’s representative. This is guidance we have received from our mission leadership to best coordinate with each ward. Your attendance is very appreciated no matter the amount of work there is in your ward to do.
Our Assigned Coordination Meetings will continue as follows.
2nd/4th Sundays. Payson 10th 4:00-4:15– Payson 10th Ward –
Following is what our Full Time missionaries are accomplishing with their efforts in our ward. We must step up and help with all these individuals.
And I am so overjoyed in knowing that each of you will do the best that you possibly can to further the gathering of Israel in the Payson 10th Ward.–
Elder and Sister Bradley are the assigned Senior Missionaries for our stake.
This is what they sent me:
Greetings, Bro Larsen, we have met with Cheryl Borens grandsons Shayden & Swayden, and they don't have a baptism date until March 1 2026. They have had the lessons & baptism interview questions. We will visit on occasion, but we would like the ward members and leaders involved going forward as they have been.
They've been attending on Sunday and YM on Wednesday. We would like to attend your ward huddle if you could tell us the time and place. Elder and Sister Bradley, Payson area senior missionaries.
Full time missionaries are still trying to meet with the others we have mentioned before. They are praying for help from the ward missionaries and the ward members.
I invite you to read a few quotes from on Church leaders concerning missionary work. And then of course it wouldnt be me without another song or two to try to tie it all together.
Missionary Work & Preparation
LDS Quotes On Missionary Work & Mission Preparation
When the Lord delivers this person to your view, just chat—about anything. You can’t miss. You don’t have to have a prescribed missionary message. Your faith, your happiness, the very look on your face is enough to quicken the honest in heart. Haven’t you ever heard a grandmother talk about her grandchildren? That’s what I mean—minus the photographs! The gospel will just tumble out. You won’t be able to contain yourself!
“Zion-building is not preparation for heaven. It is heaven, in embryo. The process of sanctifying disciples of Christ, constituting them into a community of love and harmony, does not qualify individuals for heaven; sanctification and celestial relationality are the essence of heaven. Zion, in this conception, is both an ideal and a transitional stage into the salvation all Christians strive toward.”
“Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.”
Brigham Young | Discourses of Brigham Young, 31
“Warn them that they will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery.”
“The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversation.”
But remember, the Lord has never required expert, flawless missionary efforts. Instead, “the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind”…The important thing is that you don’t give up; keep trying to get it right. You will eventually become better, happier, and more authentic. Talking with others about your faith will become normal and natural. In fact, the gospel will be such an essential, precious part of your lives that it would feel unnatural not to talk about it with others. That may not happen immediately—it is a lifelong effort. But it will happen.
And one more final thought:
But perhaps even more important than speaking is listening. These people are not lifeless objects disguised as a baptismal statistic. They are children of God, our brothers and sisters, and they need what we have. Be genuine. Reach out sincerely. Ask these friends what matters most to them. What do they cherish, and what do they hold dear? And then listen.
If the setting is right you might ask what their fears are, what they yearn for, or what they feel is missing in their lives. I promise you that something in what they say will always highlight a truth of the gospel about which you can bear testimony and about which you can then offer more.
Pray for the gift of Charity, of revelation, of discernment. Pray for courage and peace in your hearts.
Today I planted a seed of truth In fertile soil; Now, I wait Through the soft rain Of Man’s inherent goodness And the warm sun Of eternal love For a sign of growth; And pray That strong roots support The first tender shoots; And bear testimony That it may flourish And wax strong And blossom And spill its own seed Again into fertile soil. * author unknown
Our decision is to plant these seeds with others and within ourselves. Are we planting good or bad seeds? God-like seeds that will someday blossom and lead us to Jesus Christ? Or are we spreading seeds of eternal destruction and growing paths of evil seeds that lead us in the opposite direction of Jesus Christ?
I love each of you. I witness to each of you that your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you. They will assist you in your efforts to simply plant seeds.
Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God. He Lives!! He loves you. We are all converted to the Church. I invite you to join me in putting in the work necessary to truly become converted to Jesus Christ.
May the good Lord bless each of you in your personal lives. May he bring peace, charity, health, revelations, and the righteous desires of your hearts. And so I, along with so many others, proclaim.
It is my prayer that I (we) as we become converted to Jesus Christ, will follow the encouragement of our Prophet to help bring home our brothers and sisters on both sides of the veil.
Our efforts to develop friendships with less active, non-member, and active members can help guide them back to our Savior, Jesus Christ, and to our Heavenly Father. Let's do what we can to help bring them home, whether now partaking of the blessings of the Lord's Church or through selfless service in the House of the Lord. We all have the tremendous opportunity to serve the Lord and our fellow brothers and sisters!
It is my prayer that I (we) as we become converted to Jesus Christ, will follow the encouragement of our Prophet to help bring home our brothers and sisters on both sides of the veil.
HE IS RISEN INDEED!
In Jesus name, Amen.
Steve Larsen
801-380-8307
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