Can
you believe this!?!??!!!!! I need the whole family to start praying that I won't
be moved to the Bakersfield mission! I don't want to leave President
Castro!
From:
Fernando Castro <frcastro@ldschurch.org>
Date:
Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:49 PMSubject: California Bakersfield Mission to Be Created
To: All Missionaries
The First Presidency
recently announced the creation of 58 new missions in order to accommodate the
influx of new missionaries. One of the new missions to be created as a result
of this historic announcement is the “California Bakersfield Mission.” This is
exciting news and further confirmation that “the field is [indeed] white
already to harvest” in this part of the world.
This announcement
means that the current boundaries of the Ventura Mission will be realigned to
form the new Bakersfield Mission. As far as which missionaries will serve in
the Bakersfield Mission and which missionaries will remain in the Ventura
Mission, that determination will be made through revelatory direction from the
Lord, whose work this is, during the June 17th transfer. At that
transfer, those missionaries serving in areas within the new boundaries of the
Ventura Mission will remain assigned to the Ventura Mission, and those
missionaries serving within the new Bakersfield Mission boundaries will be
permanently assigned to the Bakersfield Mission under the jurisdiction of a new
mission president on July 1, 2013.
Please share this
information with your family. We will keep you informed when we receive
additional instructions from the Brethren. For now we simply need to carry on
as usual with our responsibilities to find, teach, and baptize worthy converts.
What a blessing it is
to be a missionary at this time when the Lord is raising up “laborers” (both
elders and sisters) and “hastening” his work of salvation (D&C 88:72-74).
With love,
President Castro
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