21/02/2014
Brother Rubio was a seminary supervisor
in Peru who understood that his job
meant more than being a supervisor. It
meant going out and finding those who
were not participating in seminary and
helping them receive the blessings of this wonderful program. Brother Rubio spent hours pouring over
lists of students who were not enrolled
in seminary and was constantly checking
his list of potential students to see if new
names appeared. His plan was simple: to invite those who
were not attending. The responses from
many students were the same: “I’ll see if
I can come,” “I don’t know anyone and
I’m embarrassed to attend,” “It’s been
so long since I’ve been to church,” or “What is seminary?” He didn’t let these answers discourage
him. He decided he would do whatever
it took to help more students participate
in seminary, even if it meant waking up
at 5:00 a.m. While visiting these
potential students, he learned that many were not attending because they didn’t
have a ride, so he offered to pick up
each student before seminary. Brother Herrera is a seminaries and
institutes coordinator in Peru and recalls
seeing Brother Rubio early in the
morning. “I saw Waldo at 5:40 AM all
dressed up in a shirt and tie running
down the street in the opposite direction to the church where he taught
seminary,” he said. When Brother Herrera
asked him what he was doing, he
replied, “I’m going to pick up the youth
to take them to seminary.” It was the
only way to get all the students there before 6:00 a.m., when early-morning
seminary started. Because of Waldo’s commitment to the
students, his early-morning seminary class
grew from only 4 students to 11 by the
end of the year. For many, seminary
sparked their return to activation in the
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