So this week has been amazing. I have seen God's hand in our lives so much, and I am so grateful for all of my many blessings!! On Tuesday we went to the library and watched the "He is the Gift" video that the Church pre-released for the Missionaries to see. It is an AMAZING video about the true meaning of Christmas. I encourage all of you to go to christmas.mormon.org and watch the video, it is absolutely amazing, I love it! Then we taught the Restoration to this potential that we found through tracting and he enjoyed it! We are going back in a couple weeks. On Wednesday we had district meeting and President and Sister Gerber showed up unannounced so I'm sure Elder Redd was pretty nervous! Haha, they came to instruct us on some ways to use "He is the Gift" in our missionary efforts and they gave us over 150 pass along cards specifically for the "He is the Gift" video. The Church is making a big push with this video!! The home page of Youtube has been bought out for December 7th, so that video will be the only one on the home page. Billboard spots in Times Square New York have been reserved for it as well. It is estimated that 220,000,000 people will have the opportunity to watch the video and experience the true meaning of Christmas. How amazing is that!?! If we have a question of "What do the Apostles and Prophet want me to be doing to help hasten the work?" This is your answer. There are 9 pass along cards included in each Ensign, so get the word out! Elder Bednar has invited us yet again, to "Flood the Earth" with this good news.
Later in the evening on wednesday we went to this hardcore Catholic lady's house and showed her and her husband the video. Afterwards she says, "But I thought you guys don't believe in Jesus Christ as... Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior of the world?" Her husband shoots back, "Honey did you watch the video?" That was great, and now she does know that we are indeed, Christians. We saw Mark and Susan also, and that was great! On Thanksgiving morning we went to the Welling's, and we shared the video with them, and Sister Welling invited us over to their home for my Birthday next Friday! We went to the Aeschbachers for dinner around 2:00pm. It was great, and we shared "He is the Gift" with them as well. On Friday we went to Mark and Susan's home for Thanksgiving leftovers and had a big discussion on the Plan of Salvation with Susan! Mark gets it and totally understands, it is easy for him to accept it because it all makes sense. But Susan is a little more stubborn! Haha we are on the same page now though, it was good. Mark shared with us that as soon as he got his deer in the morning, he fell to his knees and gave thanks, and cried to Heavenly Father! We shared 1 Nephi 16:32 with him after that which is an extremely similar experience which is way cool!! The Scriptures relate to us in so many different ways, it is awesome. He told us that he is going to try to quit coffee. So that means if he does choose to be baptized, he will meet all of the requirements to do so. Sunday was probably the best day of my mission so far. Mark met us at Church and Sacrament Meeting was great.
After dinner, we went to Jim and Thelma's house to share "He is the Gift" with them. We came just in time to enjoy some homemade Apple Crisp with them, it was so good!! They loved the video. Then after we left there home, I had this distinct impression to go to Paul and Kay's house and share with them the video. We met them more than a month ago and they didn't necessarily want us to come back but they didn't NOT want us to either! We decided to go anyway and we knocked on the door and Paul answered and let us in promptly! We soon found that they had 2 grandsons over and one of their daughters as well. We shared the video with all of them, and then their daughter started asking us really sincere questions about our Church and what we believe. After that, I said the closing prayer. After we opened our eyes, we saw that her eyes were full of tears. She came over to me and gave me a hug saying, "thank you so much for coming tonight!!" I don't know what I said, but she was ready to feel the Spirit that night, and she did, very strongly! She invited us to come back anytime, and we left her with our phone number. Then we went to a less-active's house who wasn't home earlier in the day, but when we went this time she was home. We committed her to begin reading her scriptures daily and promised her that she would be blessed for doing so. It was a productive day to say the least.
I am so grateful for all of my many blessings!! It feels so wonderful to be a full time servant, and representative of Jesus Christ. To top it off, Elder Dallin Hilton's farewell talk was on Sunday back home as well, and Ms. Kennedy's baptism was on Saturday. I only have reason to be happy this week, I truly have been blessed, and have had prayers answered. I love you all, thank you so much for all of your support and love towards me and my efforts as a missionary.
Later in the evening on wednesday we went to this hardcore Catholic lady's house and showed her and her husband the video. Afterwards she says, "But I thought you guys don't believe in Jesus Christ as... Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior of the world?" Her husband shoots back, "Honey did you watch the video?" That was great, and now she does know that we are indeed, Christians. We saw Mark and Susan also, and that was great! On Thanksgiving morning we went to the Welling's, and we shared the video with them, and Sister Welling invited us over to their home for my Birthday next Friday! We went to the Aeschbachers for dinner around 2:00pm. It was great, and we shared "He is the Gift" with them as well. On Friday we went to Mark and Susan's home for Thanksgiving leftovers and had a big discussion on the Plan of Salvation with Susan! Mark gets it and totally understands, it is easy for him to accept it because it all makes sense. But Susan is a little more stubborn! Haha we are on the same page now though, it was good. Mark shared with us that as soon as he got his deer in the morning, he fell to his knees and gave thanks, and cried to Heavenly Father! We shared 1 Nephi 16:32 with him after that which is an extremely similar experience which is way cool!! The Scriptures relate to us in so many different ways, it is awesome. He told us that he is going to try to quit coffee. So that means if he does choose to be baptized, he will meet all of the requirements to do so. Sunday was probably the best day of my mission so far. Mark met us at Church and Sacrament Meeting was great.
After dinner, we went to Jim and Thelma's house to share "He is the Gift" with them. We came just in time to enjoy some homemade Apple Crisp with them, it was so good!! They loved the video. Then after we left there home, I had this distinct impression to go to Paul and Kay's house and share with them the video. We met them more than a month ago and they didn't necessarily want us to come back but they didn't NOT want us to either! We decided to go anyway and we knocked on the door and Paul answered and let us in promptly! We soon found that they had 2 grandsons over and one of their daughters as well. We shared the video with all of them, and then their daughter started asking us really sincere questions about our Church and what we believe. After that, I said the closing prayer. After we opened our eyes, we saw that her eyes were full of tears. She came over to me and gave me a hug saying, "thank you so much for coming tonight!!" I don't know what I said, but she was ready to feel the Spirit that night, and she did, very strongly! She invited us to come back anytime, and we left her with our phone number. Then we went to a less-active's house who wasn't home earlier in the day, but when we went this time she was home. We committed her to begin reading her scriptures daily and promised her that she would be blessed for doing so. It was a productive day to say the least.
I am so grateful for all of my many blessings!! It feels so wonderful to be a full time servant, and representative of Jesus Christ. To top it off, Elder Dallin Hilton's farewell talk was on Sunday back home as well, and Ms. Kennedy's baptism was on Saturday. I only have reason to be happy this week, I truly have been blessed, and have had prayers answered. I love you all, thank you so much for all of your support and love towards me and my efforts as a missionary.
-Elder Goff
This is Nick's favorite teacher that he invited to his farewell who ended up taking the missionary lessons and got baptized this past Saturday!! Ben, Courtney and I were able to go and it was a wonderful day!!!
The missionaries that taught her here in Middleton Idaho, Elder Rhoton from Mesa, AZ and Elder Haws from Riverside, CA What great missionaries!!!
Decorating a missionary apartment for Christmas!!
Stockings and Christmas countdown that I sent to Elder Goff and Elder Redd
Elder Goff and Mark, an investigator who is an avid hunter!! Elder Goff loves this man!!
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