Spiritual Momentum
Spiritual Momentum
President Quinn’s Weekly Message
California Santa Rosa Mission
May 26th, 2025
We enjoyed an inspirational five days with you during zone conferences last week. It was wonderful seeing and being with you. I am grateful for those who prepared and delivered instruction for us. I am also grateful for your comments given during our discussions. Please review your notes and find ways to apply the instruction you received.
Today we celebrate Memorial Day. Memorial Day typically signals the beginning of summer. I love the warm days of summer – and the opportunity to spend time outdoors enjoying the weather.
It was a year ago, as we entered the summer months, that we began to see our key indicators for conversion fall off. We discussed in our zone conferences how we can prevent that from happening this year. I would like to share a few of the suggestions we learned during our visit across the mission:
Increased emphasis on goal setting, planning, and working to achieve key indicators for conversion – we are “fighting for our goals”
Stricter adherence to daily schedule standards – specifically being out of apartments at 10:00 AM to find, teach, and invite for a minimum of 35 hours per week
Shift in attitude – CASRM missionaries believe each companionship can find friends to baptize
Renewed focus on fulfilling our missionary purpose by sharing, teaching, and living the Doctrine of Christ
Each day finding opportunities to extend invitations to read the Book of Mormon, attend church, and be baptized and confirmed to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost
I am confident that continuing to do the items listed above will allow us to maintain the momentum we have enjoyed the last several transfers and continue qualifying us for the Savior’s blessings in His work.
As I write this letter, I am reminded of the counsel President Nelson gave us for maintaining our spiritual momentum. I believe his instruction will benefit each of us:
“Many actions can ignite positive spiritual momentum. Obedience, love, humility, service, and gratitude are but a few.” (President Russell M. Nelson, GC April 2022)
I invite you to consider what you can do in the five areas listed above to “ignite” and maintain your personal spiritual momentum. I promise that as your spiritual momentum grows, so will the momentum in your missionary work. As we are instructed in PMG:
“As your understanding and testimony of the Savior and His Atonement grow, your desire to share the gospel will increase. You will feel, as Lehi did, the “great … importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth”” (2 Nephi 2:8).
Sister Quinn and I love you. We are grateful for the spiritual momentum we are seeing across CASRM. We pray for your success as we move forward in the Lord’s work.
Love,
President Quinn
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