Saturday, February 26, 2011

To All the World

See "Internet Proselyting", and Elder Austin Goff's "Online Missionary Work"

I am very excited about this, and I hope you will post your comments and feelings as well.
In July 1974, President Spencer W. Kimball made this prophetic statement regarding the spreading of the gospel of Jesus Christ through technology:

“The Lord will lay in our hand inventions which we can scarcely conceive whereby we will be able to bring the gospel to the peoples of the world. I have faith that the Lord will open doors when we have done everything in our power. I believe that the Lord is anxious to put into our hands inventions of which we laymen have hardly had a glimpse.We shall use the inventions the Lord has given us to awaken interest and acquaint people of the world with the truths, to ease their prejudices and give them a general knowledge. We shall need to answer specific questions, and perhaps that can be done by two-way radio and TV perfected to a point beyond our present imagination. It is conceivable that such a program greatly perfected could be multiplied ten thousand times in ten thousand tongues and dialects in ten thousand places far and near. Tens of thousands of young missionaries endowed with the power from on high will follow up the proselyting” (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, 587-88).
In 1994, President Howard W. Hunter added this prophetic statement: “I feel our most enthusiastic projections capture only a tiny glimpse of how these [technological] tools can help us and of the eternal consequences of these efforts.”
(Taken from LDSMag)

In October of 2010, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began a pilot program for internet proselyting. This blog, and my facebook profile have resulted, as well as hundreds of other missionaries' blogs and pages.

A few days ago, we held a zone conference in Billings with about fifty missionaries. Our mission president read the above excerpts and testified of the hand of God in moving this work forward, and in fulfilling the prophecy made by Spencer Kimball nearly 40 years ago. The Spirit of God was strong in the room, and we all felt an excitement and energy. What a blessing to be a part of the first wave of missionaries to move the work of God forward on the internet!
Of course, full time missionaries online is only a small part of the work that is moving forward. Thousands of members, with many more to follow, are helping in the effort online. In addition, there are incredible video productions being made available on Youtube.com, Lds.org, youth.lds.org and Mormon.org, all of which carry with them a strong spirit.
The Church has an increasing radio and television presence as well.
And this is only the beginning. The gospel is spreading across the whole earth.
I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true, and that through it we can find true happiness and live with God again some day.
If you have any questions about what we do as online missionaries, feel free to message me on facebook or leave a comment here.

1 comment:

  1. What a blessing to see those prophecies being fulfilled right before our eyes! And any of us can participate in the work!

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