Stake missionary had a rich harvest of souls
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During a one-year stake mission sandwiched between two full-time missions, Eunice Merrill Andrews helped bring more than 200 people into the Church, most of whom were unbaptized children of record.
Sister Andrews, who is in her 70s, completed a successful year and a half in the Kentucky Louisville Mission, and is now serving in the North Carolina Charlotte Mission.In her full-time mission in Kentucky, she was assigned to work with less-active members, and also took part in the conversion of seven people. In the stake mission, Sister Andrews and her companion, Dorothy Ames, worked in the Redwood area of the Salt Lake Granger North Stake where both were long-time members.
They taught the missionary lessons and were instrumental in the baptisms of many children who had not been baptized at age 8, and several adults whom they tracted out within the stake.
Sister Andrews had taught many of the children in Primary classes, she explained. "I already knew the children," she said. They also tracted, just as full-time missionaries do, in some apartments in their stake.
"Where I knew someone wasn't LDS, I was made acquainted with them by people who were LDS, and we talked to them about the Church," she said. "We taught them in their own homes, and took their children to our home for their class. Ten of the adults were baptized during that year."
After her stake mission was concluded, she worked in the stake record extraction program, and convalesced from an illness. When she had fully recovered from the illness, she dropped in to visit her bishop, Victor Ashby, of the Redwood Ward.
"I asked him, `Why don't you recommend me for another mission?' " she said. "He did, so I am here [in North Carolina]."
