So What are We Doing?

We are trying desperately to learn as much as we can from the Statons, the couple who have run the Wheelchair initiative for the past 2 years. We have about 30 service missionary couples who have been called to help run the program. The first large problem is the corruption in the country. Many wheelchairs were given out in the beginning to government and private units to give to their people. Assessors were called and trained to fit the chairs to the people, but after time it was found the people those chairs were intended for never received them. The chairs were given out as political gifts or stolen. So now we have to be very careful and our wonderful service missionaries visit every recipient and make sure things have been done properly. There is just a lot of people to learn about, many organization to learn about, a huge computer program to learn to run, and a lot of people to co-ordinate. We know we can do it because we have been called to do it and the Lord doesn’t want the program to fail.

We have learned that Christ came to walk the earth to establish the church and through the atonement bring to reality the new and everlasting covenant. But the second great thing the Lord did was to care for the poor and the needy. Caring for the poor and the needy has been added to the mission statement as the 4^thprinciple. We are so glad to be serving the Lord in serving the poor and the needy “in this church, in any other church or in no church at all.” Joseph Smith