Seminary graduation

Last night we attended and participated in similar graduation for the Brooklyn Stake. 

There were five graduates for the stake in attendance. We were there to give a little talk and to welcome them to Institute. 

We also give them a little candy treat.

 We hope they will come and join us!

 We continue to be surprised at how few fully LDS Families there are in the stake, with a father and mother and children all living in the home and all active in the church. We met a few such families last night, and that was good. The area where we met had two wards, one a Spanish Ward  and the other a Chinese Ward. There are no English-speaking larger branches in that area.

In our talk, we spoke both English and Spanish, and that was fun.  We were hoping for a foreign mission, and boy are we getting it here in New York!  This is truly the melting pot of the world.

The continual challenge here in the mission field is for young people to find other strong Latter Day Saints they can date and marry. There are lots of young people here in our area, but so few of them are active members. 

Be grateful that in your area the church is strong and your children have many good dating opportunities. At least we hope that is the case.