PAYSON 10TH WARD MISSIONARY COORDINATION: May 24, 2025

 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 –

HAVE YOU BEEN A MISSIONARY?

Have you ever preached a sermon with an awful stomach ache? And your head so full of throbbing that you thought it soon would break?

Have you ever read your Bible under shelter of some tree While the rain fell all around you ‘til it formed a little sea?

Have you ever sailed six miles to bless a member’s baby? Have you eaten a Christmas dinner made of common spuds and gravy?

Have you ever tried to twist your tongue around another country’s lingo, And said, “I’ll learn this language yet, if it’s the last thing I do, by jingo!”?

Have you ever tried to bring comfort to a family rent with pain? Have you told a crying mother that her son would live again?

Have you ever watched jeering eyes as you preached upon the street? Have you ever thrilled with unbound joy when with some interest you chanced to meet?

Did you ever feel the least bit slighted because someone forgot to write? Did you ever think, “She’ll never wait, but, then again, she might”?

Did you ever come home discouraged after preaching had gone wrong?

Did you ever change your feeling just by singing a happy song?

If you’ve hiked along the highway, if you have stood in the rain, If you have preached on an empty stomach without a thought of gain, If you have been discouraged, if you have seen the work go contrary, If you have done these things and laughed, my friend, then you have been a missionary!

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?

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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

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