Elder Zwick meeting

I got to go to a meeting last night where Elder Zwick of the 1st Quorom of the 70 was the main speaker. I thought I'd post some interesting comments from the meeting while home for lunch.
His wife spoke also and shared an experience they had while serving as mission president in Chile. She said they had just gotten home from taking the previous mission president couple to the airport when the phone rang. It was their first call. A missionary was on the phone said he didn't know them and they didn't know him but he was calling from a pay phone and the only thing he was wearing was his companions coat. They had been teaching some people in a church house when some armed gunmen stormed in. They made one of the missionaries undress inforn of some seminary students the gunmen then poured stuff on his clothes and lit them on fire which in turn was causing the meeting house to burn down. Then he said, "What do you want me to do?"

She didn't elaborate on what happened next or anything but I thought that was quite a story.

One of Elder Zwicks responsibilities is organizing and reorganizing missions and so forth. He said that just this week 3 new districts in 3 spots in China were done. I don't know what that means because that wasn't his topic but thought I'd share it anyway. The only other message I was going to share (because I have never thought of it this way)was one he directed at the Rexburg area which would apply to most of you as well, living in large LDS communities was on missionaries. One of the things we could do to help the missionaries was to have them into our homes more often. They would benefit from seeing a strong gospel family in action in their daily activiies. This would benefit the missionary later in life maybe with an investigator or after their mission when they go home and want to start a family. It would help give them something to strive for. He of course said it alot better than it looks reading it right now but that is the best I can give from my notes.

Here are some things to look up if interested that he quoted from as well dealing with missionary work. I didn't write down the whole quote just where to find it.
Preach my Gospel(PMG) pg160
read ch 3 from PMG learn a 5, 10 and 20minute version of it.
Mormon 6:17
Dec 2002 1st presidency message on missionary work.
Jan2003 1st leadership broadcast pg 18
PMG pg 214
March 2005 1st presidency msg on ward mission plan.

thanks for reading
todd