Mission President & his Wife...

Here is a pic of President and Sister Hale, the Mission President and his wife, with Sterling. This was taken the day he arrived.

We also received an email from President Hale welcoming Sterling into their mission. Here are some things that he mentioned in his email:

This month we attained a record 61 baptisms! This reflects a 220% increase from this same month last year and an increase of 151% in the average weekly number of baptisms per missionary this entire quarter over the same quarter last year. October should be even stronger – our goal is that every companionship is baptizing every month (some every week) and more importantly that everyone is experiencing a greater happiness and joy as a result of their increased efforts. We believe what happens to one of us, happens to all of us and we thrill in the success of everyone mission wide!

Shortly before Sister Hale and I departed on our mission I was able to spend some ‘one on one’ personal time with President Uchtdorf. As I departed his home he said, “Nathan, your missionaries will experience tremendous success in finding, teaching, baptizing and retaining new converts as never before.” I regard this as prophesy and sincerely desire it’s fulfillment. It’s coming – we can feel it and it will be “tremendous” – as foretold.