In giving our service to others, we need to remember President Hinckley's counsel to extend the hand of fellowship and to share our love with the hundreds of thousands who join the Church as converts each year. The greatest tool the Lord has to welcome new converts warmly and "keep them in the right way" is the love each of us extends by taking the time to introduce ourselves to new members, learning their names, listening to them, and learning something about them.

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening. Each of us needs to be the friend that every new member needs to remain active and faithful in the Church. As friendships are built, new converts "are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God." When people are baptized, "their names [are] taken" and added to Church membership records, "that they might be remembered and nourished by the good word of God." Referring to the miraculous change that occurs in the lives of new members when they are properly nourished by the good word of God, Elder John A. Widtsoe observed that "very common, ordinary people, who accept the gospel from the lips of some humble Mormon missionary become so changed by those enlightening truths of the gospel that they are not the same people any longer."