January 5, 2018 Update:
Dear Elder Hamblin,
Thank you for accepting the new assignment to serve as a zone leader in the McMinnville zone. You have received this assignment because you have distinguished yourself as a leader in the Tennessee Nashville Mission. You have earned the trust of Heavenly Father through your striving to be obedient, your work ethic, your Christlike attributes and your skills in teaching repentance and baptizing converts.
Being a successful zone leader is far more about what you do than about what you say. Please lead by example. Find constantly, teach repentance from the Book of Mormon, and baptize converts. If you do that, and if you teach others how to do that, then you will be an exemplary zone leader. Remember that you are a keeper of the TNM Christ-centered culture of high expectations and charity. Please help the missionaries in your zone to get swept up in our mission culture.
You will train the district leaders and other missionaries in your zone. You do this primarily through exchanges and at zone conferences. Remember to find opportunities to lift, build and inspire the best efforts of the missionaries in your zone. Missionary work can be challenging. Always seek to encourage missionaries in their faith and joy.
Cultivate the qualities of persuasion, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, love unfeigned and kindness (D&C 121:41-42). It is also very important that you continue to strive for obedience and a strong work ethic. Place Preach My Gospel and the Missionary Handbook at the very center of your missionary work each day.
I love you. You have received this assignment from the Lord. He will qualify you. He has blessed you with unique gifts and talents that you will utilize as you lead this work forward in your zone. He trusts you. And I trust you. Please continue to earn Heavenly Father’s trust each day. Seek His guidance through prayer, and He will help you. We need your very best. I will be praying for you each day.
Love,
Jared W. Stone
President, Tennessee Nashville Mission
Thank you for accepting the new assignment to serve as a zone leader in the McMinnville zone. You have received this assignment because you have distinguished yourself as a leader in the Tennessee Nashville Mission. You have earned the trust of Heavenly Father through your striving to be obedient, your work ethic, your Christlike attributes and your skills in teaching repentance and baptizing converts.
Being a successful zone leader is far more about what you do than about what you say. Please lead by example. Find constantly, teach repentance from the Book of Mormon, and baptize converts. If you do that, and if you teach others how to do that, then you will be an exemplary zone leader. Remember that you are a keeper of the TNM Christ-centered culture of high expectations and charity. Please help the missionaries in your zone to get swept up in our mission culture.
You will train the district leaders and other missionaries in your zone. You do this primarily through exchanges and at zone conferences. Remember to find opportunities to lift, build and inspire the best efforts of the missionaries in your zone. Missionary work can be challenging. Always seek to encourage missionaries in their faith and joy.
Cultivate the qualities of persuasion, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, love unfeigned and kindness (D&C 121:41-42). It is also very important that you continue to strive for obedience and a strong work ethic. Place Preach My Gospel and the Missionary Handbook at the very center of your missionary work each day.
I love you. You have received this assignment from the Lord. He will qualify you. He has blessed you with unique gifts and talents that you will utilize as you lead this work forward in your zone. He trusts you. And I trust you. Please continue to earn Heavenly Father’s trust each day. Seek His guidance through prayer, and He will help you. We need your very best. I will be praying for you each day.
Love,
Jared W. Stone
President, Tennessee Nashville Mission
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D&C 121:41-42
41 No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned;
42 By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile—
