Meet the Ward's Two Newest Members

On Saturday, August 15, 17-year-old Jesse Piersall stepped through the gateway to a new manner of living and onto a new road to walk towards immortality when he was baptized by his cousin Cameron Sevier. Two years ago Jesse was introduced to the church when he moved to Utah to live with his aunt and uncle, Tami and Rudy Sevier. He was interested from the beginning, but did not act on it right away. Then the missionaries knocked on the door and he decided to take a chance. "I’m not sure why I never acted on it but the missionaries helped me find the answers to my questions and to understand what it is all about. Then I saw the Joseph Smith movie at the visitors center. When he was kneeling in the sacred grove, I just knew it was true and I wanted to be baptized." His advice to ward members who might be hesitant to talk to their neighbors and friends about the gospel? "Remember how excited you were when you were first converted? It’s a wonderful thing to share!" Jesse hopes to serve a fulltime mission in the not-to-distant future and is already preparing for the chance to share what he knows to be true.

On Saturday, August 22, 8-year-old Noah Forsyth, who has reached the age of accountability, also took his first step on the straight and narrow path which leads to eternal life. The seventh of Steve and Tina Forsyth’s nine children was baptized and confirmed by his father.

In the words of President Gordon B. Hinckley, it is now the duty of the members of the Bloomington 7th Ward to help Noah and Jesse "become strong and faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - members who love the Lord, who understand the gospel, who fellowship with the Saints and who partake of the beauties and wonders of the gospel of Jesus Christ."