Letter from Elder Edgel

Dear Brother & Sister Goode,

We are a senior missionary couple serving with your son.  I am a retired Army Major and my wife is a retired supervisory nurse.  I am a lifelong member and my wife is a convert.  I served a mission, and was associated with the missionary work for many years as a Seventy.  I have worked with dozens of missionaries and supervised 170 of them at the conclusion of my mission.  During those years I have seen few missionaries that have impressed me like your son has.  Your son is an example to all of the missionaries.  He is dedicated and humble.  He has what we call in the military, great bearing.  One can see that he is confident but never cocky.  He is polite and congenial.  He will go far in life!  Thank you for sending a lad like him to join the great missionary fraternity.

We have grown to love and admire your son.  Now, as we will shortly send him home, know that he returns with honor.  We shall miss him but we certainly will keep track of him.  The boy that you sent out to serve, two years ago, comes home a man.  Great job, Mom & Dad.

Faithfully your companions,   

Elder & Sister Edgel

Sigonella Naval Air Station, Italy

Week 96

Heyy mom! How are you?

The Lord is blessing me and you guys so much!
We are seeing absolute miracles! We will have 2 baptisms the day
before I leave! It will be so awesome! I am so excited for our
investigators who are preparing to get baptized! It will be so
rewarding!
I'm not super good at doing nothing! I'm most productive when I have a project or something that I like doing! I'm really hoping my enthusiasm will carry over after the mission! I think it will!

I love you guys! Have a great week!

Love, Anziano Goode

Week 95

Hey,

I'm doing okay. I'm feeling a little strange, I've never felt the way I do
now! I feel like Satan is trying so hard just to make me feel like I have
wasted my time and that I should've done my mission in a different way,
but I'm just glad I know where those thoughts come from and how to
protect myself from them! I have gained such a strong testimony of the
scriptures, having to rely on them and study them everyday! I know God
speaks to us individually through the Holy Ghost but they are the
words of Heavenly Father! I'm happy I know all this stuff! 

I am super excited for these coming weeks, they will be filled with miracles! Yesterday was Anziano Berger's birthday so we had a big celebration with a cake and everything, it was great! We also had to say goodbye to President and Sorella Waddoups and it was super sad to see the president and his
wife leave! I hope you have a great week.  Only a couple more weeks of
emailing ya! I'm soo bad at emailing! Sending lots of love!
Anziano Goode

Week 94

Hey, 

I love you! This week was great and next week will be even better! 

The church is true!
I love you(:

Anziano Goode

Week 93

Hey mom! How are you? 
This week was way busy with transfers and stuff.
I am assigned to work with Anziano Berger again, which is awesome! We are already killing it! I'm really excited to see what will happen this transfer with
everything going on and the new mission president coming on the 28 of June! I'm reading the Book of Mormon everyday for studies and i'm in
Alma 15 which talks about the mission of  Alma and Amulek and it is
really inspiring! We will have a training for our Zone on the 15th, we
will give a thirty minute lesson to everyone! Its gonna be great!
I love you, have a great week!
Anziano Goode