Stake Youth Zone Conference

We were asked by Denham Springs Stake if we could do something to help their youth learn how to be good member missionaries. We decided to hold a youth zone conference. It was a fun day. Their stake youth ran the morning session where we heard a spiritual thought from every unit. The missionaries ran the afternoon session. We started with a musical number of the Elders and Sisters singing the Medley of Armies of Helaman and Sisters in Zion. They liked it so much that they asked them to sing it for their Stake Conference this Sunday. We really do have some beautiful voices in our mission. We then had a panel of missionaries that answered questions that the youth had turned in that they often get asked and didn't know how to answer. It turned into some great discussions.  We then  had Our Assistance teach them how they can use Joseph Smith's personal experience in the Sacred Grove as a powerful tool to share with their friends. We Had Sister Bunker and sister Pilette role play it for them and let them try it. Then Elder Broadly taught them how to share the "Blessings of the Gospel" with their friends. We took them in the cultural hall where we had tables set up and our missionaries each took a group at a table and role played real live situations they have with their friends and helped them find ways to invite them to church, activities and to hear the missionaries. Our missionaries did a great job with them and the youth loved it. We concluded with President Woods telling them what a force for good they can be and that Elder Maxwell said that the reason they were saved for this time is because they had the greatest capacity for obedience. He shared with them his experience of going to a high school in LA where there were 25 members in a student body of 4,000. He told them about the "mormon tree" and how several people were baptized because they liked hanging out there. We then had a testimony meeting where we got to hear these strong youth share their love for the Savior and their understanding of His Atonement. The spirit was very strong and we were all definitely "edified together"