Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan

In my interview on Monday for a position at Hope Academy on the westside of Detroit, the principal who has been a school administrator for 30 years said I was the first person who had attended school at BYU, and in fact in Utah, he had ever interviewed. My main regret is that I said in explaining why I went to BYU that I was a Mormon instead of saying that I was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Nelson was correct when in his talk in Montreal he said we have a lot of work to do within the Church to change how we speak of the Church. I have already seen some people say that it cannot be done and that they will not even try. It can be done and it should be done. Will we end all uses of Mormon? Probably not. Should we cut back and refer to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in as many ways and by as many means as we can? Most defiately.

I am creating this blog as an act of following the counsel of President Russell M. Nelson that we ought to call The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by its full revealed name. I have undertaken to do so by writing my blog under this name. Here in Michigan the Church is not as large or as well known as we would wish. Michigan had a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as governor in the 1960s. Still even 40 years after the Revelation on the priesthood we have not made as much of inroads into the city of Detroit as we would wish. We have a temple here in Michigan, but have not had a new stake organized since the late 1970s.