Week 47 107 Baptisms, 34 Ordinations, 40 New Missionaries and 1 New Stake 6 July 2025 The pictures below happened a couple of weeks ago in Papua New Guinea which is in the Pacific Area. We would like to tell you that we covered this event but it was done by another missionary. It is so amazing we had to mention it. The Church growth rate in PNG is amazingly high. In fact, it is very difficult to support and maintain the growth of the Church because of the challenges it creates. The same weekend the new stake was created, they had 107 baptisms, 40 prospective missionaries completed mission papers, and 37 brethren received the Priesthood. The new Stake doesn't have a building to meet in. Most chapels in PNG meet in "bush chapels". To form a baptismal font, they built a dam across the river so they could perform the baptisms. This is my hard-working, fun-loving, fast-accomplishing, slow-to-anger, never-tiring companion, Elder Shaw (Kelly: I ...