Happy Birthday President Nelson!

Missionaries across the Tennessee Knoxville Mission gathered together with friends and members to watch President Nelson’s 100th Birthday Party! Each zone held a party. Missionaries gathered at 6pm to watch the broadcast and had a potluck, cake, and ice cream afterwards.

To celebrate President Nelson’s birthday, all of the missionaries did two things:

First, we each participated in President Nelson’s “99+1” invitation to spread the love of Jesus Christ by reaching out to someone in need. While we do this every day as missionaries, we made this a special focus of the three preparation days leading up to President Nelson’s birthday.

Second, all missionaries memorized “The Restoration Proclamation”. We’ve been working on it over the last two months and set a deadline to have it completed by President Nelson’s birthday. This was a really powerful experience and we look forward to sharing more about that in a future post. Also, we will be recording the missionaries reciting the Restoration Proclamation at our next zone conference.

We were grateful to have many friends join us to celebrate President Nelson’s birthday.

Lastly, at our zone conferences last month, Elder Jentzsch wrote a new verse to “Follow the Prophet” that we all sang together (with actions as taught by different missionaries)!