We were in attendance at the Worldwide Leadership training on Saturday, November 13th to hear about the positive changes in how the Lord's Church is administered. Then for our weekly building devotional to senior couples and full-time employees this week, the area president shared with us how he had been privileged, almost 4 years ago, to be asked by the First Presidency to provide input for such an endeavor. Having lived away from Church headquarters for 15 years, he had the unique perspective of how the Church is run in distant countries. The two concerns the First Presidency had were, first, the family: how families were being negatively impacted by the number of meetings and the place the family had to take because of those meetings. In fact if you watched the training you may recall that Elder Bednar wished he could do away with the word "meeting" and in its place refer to them as "revelatory experiences." That is certainly a change of thinking. The second concern was how to relieve overworked bishops by doing such things as engaging the ward council more fully. The result of years of work and inspiration was presented to us as two Handbooks. It's exciting to see these improvements and be part of implementing them. For more information about this, go to http://new.lds.org/church/news/new-handbooks-introduced-during-worldwide-training?lang=eng
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