Kristi did not email last week. Instead we received a Christmas card with a handwritten letter. Here’s an excerpt:
“On Monday the internet was down. Sorry I couldn’t write/email. We had a really good week teaching a sit-down lesson almost every day and having a family of four come to church - something we haven’t had in forever! It was a great week full of miracles, but we still had our low points and struggles. That’s normal. . . . We did go to the devotional, hoping to meet an investigator there; but the room was packed! We went to the Windermere chapel - right across from the temple - because they had a ‘Festival of the Nativity.’ Well, S__ found me and asked me to interpret the devotional. It was packed and we didn’t have seats. So I stood in the back near the doors. She was in front of me, and I interpreted the whole thing. It’s funny how I feel rusty during sacrament; but when it’s the First Presidency speaking, interpreting is easy! It proves the power and gift of the spirit.”
‘Make no small plans: They have no magic to stir man’s souls.’ This is the vision I have for the South. I believe that one day the South will baptize more people into the church than all other English speaking missions in the world together. There are great hosts of marvelous Baptists, and members of the church of Christ, Methodists and Catholics who are honorable people, and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and love him. As they see their church veering off to the right or to the left of these basic teachings, they will begin to search for the truth. And as pivotal teachers come into the church and have influence, we will see the time when we baptize hundreds and thousands, tens of thousands. In your day you will see a million members of the church in the South. There will be Temples plural in the Southern States. What a great call you have to serve with these marvelous people. ~Spencer W Kimball (1974)
