A letter to stake members urging all to seek a hastening of the Lord's work in our stake, too

The following is a letter from the stake presidency to all members of our stake issued on July 5, 2013.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Two weeks ago the entire Church was invited to participate in the broadcast of a mission president’s seminar. It was a marvelous meeting filled with vision and inspiration.

We all came away with a renewed desire to participate in this remarkable day of hastening by becoming more effective member missionaries. In short, our Church leaders have called on us to gain “A New Vision for the Work of Salvation.”

To that end, we urge all members of our stake to do the following:

• Review the new Church website about “Hastening the Work of Salvation” located
   at http://www.lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/hastening/a-new-vision?lang=eng

• Make our personal missionary efforts a focus of our fast this Sunday, July 7.

• Begin praying daily for the Lord’s guidance as to what each of us and our families
   are to do to hasten the work of salvation in our stake.

We live in extraordinary times in which the rising generation has responded to a prophet’s call in numbers never seen before in history. Each ward in our stake now has its own set of missionaries and possibly more to come.

All of us are witnesses of prophecy being fulfilled. “And righteousness will I send down out of heaven; and truth will I send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine Only Begotten…and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth…” (Moses 7:62)

The Lord truly is hastening His work on the earth (D&C 88:73). Will you join with us in asking the Lord to hasten His work in our stake, too?