VC Culture

In some of our most recent Visitors' Center Zone Meetings we've been discussing the type of culture we want to create for these sisters.  We've decided that there needs to be a culture of conversion that comes through ministering and being ministered to.  The essence of this culture is found in this photograph.

  
Like Jairus' daughter in this photo, we hope for the sisters to find "new life" as a missionary.  We see them renewing their baptismal covenants (or being reborn) in a way that helps them to recognize the Savior is lifting them.  He is lifting them so that they can understand they have a marvelous future ahead of them as missionaries and as a saints.  Their purpose now and forever is to bring others to the Savior, which is ultimately what Jairus' daughter did for her father; he had to literally go to the Savior to find healing and answers.  

As these sisters come to know their Savior in our classroom, the culture of the Visitor Center Zone will be one of healing, learning, ministering, and conversion because Jesus Christ is the Master Healer, Teacher, Minister, and Savior for us all.

Lessons Learned from the Past Zone 3

In zone meeting, we reflected on the wonderful blessings the Lord has poured out on our zone through this spring and summer. As part of this, we reviewed briefly part of Elder Perry's talk The Past Way of Facing the Future. In this talk, he recounts how Norwegian ship builders received the assignment to build the roof of the Manti temple. Having no background in roofing, they eventually designed a ship upside down on the plans and when they flipped it over had plans for a secure roof.
Here are some past lessons we have learned that will enable us to face the future, both at the MTC and in our personal lives.
We invite anyone else who wants to take this reflective moment and see the Lord's hand in their lives to add the lessons they have learned as well.