Mission Highlights

There aren't many institute age young adults and even fewer seminary age youth in the mission. We have been seeing more people at church, and this last Sunday, we doubled our Primary attendance when a family who have been members for a long time came with their 5 children: 4 boys and a girl. The husband works in England, so the mother doesn't come often. Her twin babies keep her quite busy. The oldest boy looks like he should be Seminary age next year. That would make 2 of that age in our branch, maybe 3, and we are constantly encouraging a young man named Christian, who is a friend of a member, to come out to church. The youth are just so much fun to be around. There is a baptism scheduled for this Saturday and we are excited, as this will add to our YSA count in our branch. Our primary efforts are to increase the attendance in our seminary and institute programs. It is quite a challenge. We have asked the missionaries to concentrate on re-activating those in that age range. Most of our efforts this past week have been directed in the area of advertising our up coming YSA and Youth Conferences. We finally received the posters from our committees, and they have now been printed and are on their way to the various Branches throughout the mission. We need to have an accurate count of who is coming by the 10th of June, and so the push is on.