In Spokane, a media campaign has been going on to try to get people more familiar and comfortable with the church and its members. There are commercials running on prime-time television, and billboards on the main roads. We had training on the new Mormon.org website, and also are doing a pilot program up here with church tours. Our family already went on one church tour, and it should be a great way to do missionary work! We had training on the new missionary efforts a few weeks ago, and were all encouraged to do a profile. So I finally did it. You can view my profile (as well as many others on the website) here:
I hope I can do a better job opening my mouth and sharing the Gospel, because I want everyone to feel the same things I feel and know the same things I know because of it! That's what's been coming to my mind lately "open your mouth"! I also keep thinking of one of my favorite quotes by President Hinckley: "This work requires sacrifice, it requires effort, it means courage to speak out and faith to try. This cause does not need critics; it does not need doubters. It needs men and women of solemn purpose. As Paul wrote to Timothy: " . . . God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. . . ." (2 Tim. 1:7-8.) I would that every member of this church, and every good man throughout the world, would put those words where he might see them every morning as he begins his day. They would give him the courage to speak up, they would give him the faith to try, they would strengthen his conviction of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that miracles would begin to happen over the earth."
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