Counseling With Councils For Missionaries

The Lord changes those in charge to allow for a new perspective that comes with a new leader.  Good new leaders slowly make the changes that they have high on their minds, they realize the previous leader also was inspired by Heavenly Father to do what they were doing.  On Tuesday in the Mission Leadership Training President Christensen focused on the importance of councils.  He then asked the leaders to go teach the other missionaries.  He is only making small changes right now.

Today there was a Zone training for the Phnom Penh South Zone and after reporting on areas and how the zone did last month, they taught about councils.  The specific assignment was to discuss how to keep recent converts active.  Only about 35% of the recent converts are still active and 80% of those fall off in the first two months.  It was a great council and the missionaries came up with some wonderful action items or goals for the next month.  They decided that they need more member involvement as they teach the recent converts, to help them have more friends and to emphasize the Book of Mormon in all of their teaching, to help strengthen testimonies.  It will assuredly help if they focus on those and follow up.

As we got to the Church building this morning they were putting up a tent in the parking lot.  We knew it was a funeral or a wedding, but that is the first tent we have seen in the church parking lot. It was a funeral for a member in one of the other units in that building.  They held the visitation or viewing in the cultural hall and they had the traditional food out in the tent.

This evening the skies darkened and it began to rain, thankfully not like it did last Saturday, but enough for some beautiful pictures from our balcony.