I love reading your emails because they are always really informing and it's exciting to know what you guys do and to be able to share with everybody what you guys are doing! That's so cool that you guys are going to see the Tijuana temple! I want to go see that when I get home! This week was truly great being able to share it with the missionaries in my district and yesterday especially to be able to talk with and listen to Elder Oaks! The responsibility of an apostle
is so great! He and his wife spoke together most of the time just asking each other questions and responding with the spirit to answer our own personal questions as missionaries! We were also given the opportunity to personally shake his hand and talk with him for a second. To me he just said "Hello Elder Cook, I mean Elder Goode. These glasses are getting old!" Then he looked me in the eyes and said "Nice to meet you, Elder Goode". I pretty much didn't say anything, I was too busy fumbling over my tongue, but I did say, "It's nice to see you."
He spoke about some really cool topics, the ones that stood out the most were the ones about actually being a missionary and not just doing missionary things, like going through the motions. Then he also said we have to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord. Like a pen, we need to be filled with ink or knowledge. We also need to be clicked out and ready to go and third we can't write or
share our own message, we need to share the gospel of Jesus Christ the
message that He needs to write and share. So overall it went great. I'm so
grateful to be able to serve in this place at this time, even if it is hard and I don't see immediate results.
Love you a lot! Hope you have a great week!
Love, Anziano Goode
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| Zone Conference with Elder Oaks |
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