From there, the Aaronic Priesthood in Immokalee just kept multiplying. "It was like a tree," Junior says. "It just kept growing and growing."
"One person invited another person, who invited another person, who invited another," Milsont says.
Some of Junior's friends from the football team came. Others invited relatives, fellow students, or long-time friends. The full-time missionaries received lots of referrals and taught and taught and taught—often accompanied by young men from the branch. Attendance at Wednesday night and Scouting activities averaged about 30, with almost as many in attendance on Sunday. Today there are 26 active young men in the branch—and one of them is Jorge Caceres, the one who had previously been discouraged about having no other young men with whom to associate.
"I became friends with Junior, too," Jorge says, "Then when he started inviting his friends to church, I became friends with them. Every week new people kept coming."
And Jorge noticed something. "Once they started getting to know the Church, they changed." The gospel was changing them; getting to know Christ was changing them. "When I saw that, I started to take church more seriously. I worked on my own testimony, and now I know the Church is true."