This is a compilation of excerpts from President’s letters written by missionaries each week during their mission, and by returned missionaries, explaining the joy of "transition". It is my simple contribution to honor the hope, vision, excitement, tragedy, and resulting "miracles" that accompany "powerful faith," of such a loyal band of faithful followers of the Lord and His Spirit. Each missionary was asked to write about the F.A.C.T.S. Family, Area, Companionship, Testimony and Spiritual Experiences. By the third week in this assignment, (July 1994), I realized the value of these wonderful experiences to build vision in missionaries, taught by one of their "own", that happened in "their" mission field, that previous week or month. Vision has been taught in this way to each other, these past two years.

I have removed many experiences from here, because of the sacred nature and "personalness" of the content. For those included, that may cause some slight embarrassment, I hope there will be "no offense", as many contain "teaching moments" that could not be expressed in any other way, other than in your own words. I have maintained the language as close to how it was written, corrected only for tense, spelling or brevity. For all those who do not have experiences included, I also apologize. If the same concept was taught by another, yours was probably deleted, in the interests of length. Some weeks due to other pressing matters, many experiences were not recorded. As it is, the booklet has become larger than I feel many will persevere with, attempting to read. Imagine how large the booklet would be if I waited until the end of our mission to include the last year’s experiences.

My only hope is that the reader will enjoy these faith promoting experiences, as much as when I first read and then typed them on computer. This is merely a tribute to all those young men and women, whose lives are now firmly established "in Christ", having been "actively engaged" in selfless service in the kingdom, bringing many other souls "unto Christ." I love and admire them all, and look forward to viewing their contributions in life, whether they be in business, government, industry, family, or church, all are the same "to the Lord."