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You have six lessons to give them. You won't take six weeks to give six lessons if you can help it, will you? You will take two or three weeks to give six lessons. If you hold a meeting Monday night with folks, and then you set another one for next Monday night, you have given the devil a whole week to marshal his forces. The first thing he does is to tell the relatives and neighbors and they begin working on them. They find fault and laugh at them and kid them about it and then they go to church and their minister already knows about it because somebody has told him. And so he attacks them and says, "You wouldn't be interested in anything like that." And he reiterates the old, ugly stories and gives them an anti-Mormon treatise. And so, by Monday night, they do not come.
Source: Edward L. Kimball, ed. The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982. 577.
Numerous people have been converted to the gospel; then, because the converters did not follow through, other forces came in to discourage and dampen the ardor, and never again did the same individual come so near his baptism into the Church. "Strike while the iron is hot" is an old proverb used throughout our lives. While the enthusiasm is stirred and the interest is cultivated -- this is the time to act! Since baptisms in the mission field have been speeded up and the training has been reduced to a few carefully planned lessons that cover the basic messages, there have been more baptisms-- proper ones -- than in years gone by. Certainly the impact is greater when there is quicker movement and time is of the essence.
Source: Edward L. Kimball, ed. The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982. 578.