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.