The West Indies Mission: St. Vincent YSA Center Sees Success

Friday, June 8, 2012

St. Vincent YSA Center Sees Success

According to Elder and Sister Henderson, the Young Single Adult Center in St. Vincent is seeing some amazing success toward the Church’s mission for the YSA program “to bring souls unto Christ” through priesthood driven, doctrine centered, missionary oriented and people focused activities for members and non-member friends (ages 18-30).

All activities focus on four areas including wholesome social interaction; service-learning in the community; career and personal development; and, temple work and genealogy. The YSA Center in St. Vincent opened in September 2011 and has consistently had 16-20 in attendance each week. Since January 2012, there have been 4 young single adults baptized, one young woman has received her mission call and two young men are getting their papers ready to submit, asking their YSA friends to keep baptizing . . . especially young women so they will have someone to marry in the temple when they return from their missionary service.

2 comments:

Bob and Raylene said...: It sounds like a true success.; June 10, 2012 at 7:13 PM
ina said...: Thank you so much for your great example in serving the Young Adults and the great succes the Lord sended you both, we love you, The Jansens; June 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM

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A Message to WIM Missionary Families

Sending and receiving mail – especially packages - is difficult, time-consuming and costly here in the Caribbean . . . and can take many weeks to reach the recipient!!!

Parents and others, with the best of intentions and love in their hearts, spend significant time and money to purchase, prepare and mail these packages. In some of our mission’s 12 countries, the package is then opened at the post office – after an hour or more of waiting in line. When the contents have been identified, taxes and/or duty fees are assessed which the missionaries are asked to pay out of their small amount of support funds.

After all this effort, these “care” packages are usually found to contain only a few small items and a whole lot of candy, all which can be purchased almost anywhere in the West Indies Mission.

We know you love your missionary and packages from home are a way to express that love, but most missionaries are just as excited about receiving small amounts of extra spending money on a personal Mastercard or Visa - provided and funded from time-to-time by loving parents as a way to purchase what the elder or sister may need in-country.

Of course, the most important gifts you can send your missionary are frequent handwritten letters – including photos - expressing your love and support of their efforts to “bring souls unto Christ!”

Thanks for your understanding in this matter, Parents. We love your missionary!!!