Today we visited the Bradenton Ward. Since our last visit in February, a new bishop has been called, Bishop Walz. He has lived in the ward for quite awhile and knows the ward and members. I believe his wife grew up in the ward.
One of the Elders assigned to the ward, Elder Mazivila, is a new missionary from Mozambique who is learning English, and also how to ride a bicycle. He seems to be doing well with both of those.
The ward has many less active members who have received their temple endowments but don't hold a current temple recommend. During Priesthood Meeting, Bishop Walz presented an effort that will be made to identify 40 of those members, 20 by the Elders Quorum and 20 by the High Priests, and to insure that they are home taught every month without fail. The plan being that they might be able to encourage those members to re-engage with the Church and obviously strengthen the ward. Hopefully they will be successful.
Elders Franklin and Mazivila have an interesting approach to involving the members in teaching investigators. In ward council, they announced when they have set teaching appointments for the coming week and asked the ward council members when they would like to host the teaching appointment in their home. They were able to set several times with ward members during that meeting.
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