We had the opportunity to go to the tailgate party that the elder’s held as part of their pinewood derby. Bishop Brown made his famous ribs, brother Cofer cooked hamburgers and hotdogs, and there were lots of cookies, cakes, chips, salad and other goodies.

  

  

  

  

I was reading a blog of a missionary who is now serving in the California Fresno Mission and read this…

“I have been assigned to the Modesto 12th ward which is about two hours outside of Fresno in the city of Modesto. In our mission each day we have two hours set aside for what is called “harvesting blessings” in which we knock doors and tell the people that we have been sent to their home to give their family and home a blessing. Our President has put this into our mission and has helped our baptisms tremendously…

It is a great feeling to see a program started by President Anderson spreading throughout the missions and changing the way missionaries contact people. Now when the missionaries become fully converted to the program and have confidence in it’s success they will really see their new investigators and baptisms increase.