Broadcast boosts activity
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"We always look forward for such opportunities where investigators and missionaries can feel the Spirit and be taught by the Brethren," said President Robert Rowley of the Iowa Des Moines Mission following the Missionary Satellite Broadcast and Open House Feb. 20.
President Rowley related, "A recent convert, who will be ordained to the
priesthood next week, said that because of the broadcast, 'all the pieces
of the puzzle' came together in his life.
"Another man who is planning to be baptized in a week was impressed with President Thomas S. Monson's formula for a happy marriage," continued President Rowley. "The man said that he and his wife had always prayed alone, but now he 'realizes the power of praying together.' The man told the missionaries they were going to kneel together in prayer."
In the Colorado Denver North Mission, President Darwin Thomas appreciated how the broadcast helped the community know more about the Church.
"This is a great message to get," he said, referring to President Monson's four "Hallmarks of a Happy Home."
"As I look around, the family is clearly under attack. It's sobering to realize what families are going through today," he said.
Out of the nine stakes in the mission whose members viewed the missionary broadcast when it aired Sunday evening, 1,262 people attended, including 54 who were not members of the Church. In one stake, where five guests attended, three requested the missionary lessons.
The three stakes in the New York Rochester Mission organized the presentation of the broadcast according to the needs of the wards and branches. Most wards will be shown the video of the broadcast in the near future. But among the 10 investigators who attended in Niagara Falls in the Buffalo New York Stake was the friend of a recent convert who has since invited the missionaries, explained President Mark Breinholt.
Several construction workers on the Palmyra New York Temple also attended the broadcast.
