Happy Birthday Elder Goff!!!

It is Elder Goff's Birthday today!!  We are missing him but so grateful to know that he is well taken care of in the Brighton Ward.  He mentioned that a family there is feeding them dinner tonight for his birthday!!  That is very comforting for us parents!!
He wrote a letter yesterday that came in the mail and it said this:

"If there is one thing I have learned about family on my mission so far, it's that I've got a darn good one, and a very supportive one.  Some missionaries have parents that don't support them.  I have a wonderful gospel centered family who is fully supporting me on my mission.  Even though my extended family is not all members of the church, they still support me on my mission by sending me letters, emails and packages.  I know I am loved and supported by all of my family, and for that I am so grateful!  This is what I shared at Thanksgiving dinner at the Aeschbachers house.  What a great set up I have got."

What a great thing a mission is!!  It teaches these young men and young woman to serve, to love and most of all to have gratitude!!!  Our hearts are full of gratitude today that this boy was born into our family 19 years ago!!  We love him and miss him and we are over the top proud of him for what his is doing and who he is becoming!!!