H(e)appy Easter! Spring is Here! Sort of.
Dear Family and Friends, For a missionary, the Easter Season with General Conference is one of the best times to serve and celebrate the triumphant life of Jesus Christ. Here in the North America Northeast (NANE), our Area Presidency asked all the wards and branches to plan exceptional Easter Sunday services for Sacrament Meeting and issue special invitations to friends and members who haven’t been participating to attend. There are 19 missions in the NANE. Our mission has 57 units (wards, branches, and one group). And we’ve been to all of them. Many more than once. I imagine other missions are similar in size. If each unit’s goal was 25 people who normally don’t come to church to join us on Easter Sunday, that’s a whole lot of people! As a mission, we also combined those Easter invitations with invitations to watch some part of General Conference on April 1-2. The first time we kept track of friends who watched General Conference with us was in October 2020, we didn’t set a goal and h...