There is another body of water found throughout the church today. I speak of the Pool of Prospective Elders in each ward and each stake. Picture in your mind a river of water gushing into the pool. Then consider a trickle of water emerging from that stagnated pool, a trickle which represents those going forward into the Melchizedek priesthood. The Pool of Prospective Elders is becoming larger and wider and deeper, more rapidly than any of us can fully appreciate. It is essential, even critical that we study the Aaronic Priesthood Pathway, since far too many boys falter, stumble, then fall without advancing into the quorums of the Melchizedek priesthood. Thereby eroding the active priesthood base of the church and curtailing the activity of loving wives and precious children. What can we as leaders do to reverse this trend? The place to begin is at the headwaters of the Aaronic Priesthood stream.