Dear Family and Frinds,
What a week we've had! I hit my year mark last Thursday and that
was surreal. It's hard to believe I've been in Michigan for a year!
Thanks Mom and family for the package, it was super cool! And the
Rankin family as well, that was a sweet package. I appreciate all of
you who support me and other full-time servants of The Lord! Hearing
from you through mail and packages is always a highlight of our week.
We had a member of the Seventy come to our mission yesterday and he
did an MLCM with all of us. We decided as a council to set higher
standards for our mission so from now on, we will only be able to
listen to one kind of music: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing
Hymns!! It won't be too bad of a change, I just worry about some of
the other missionaries here who will resist. He talked with us about
exact obedience and what it truly means to be exactly obedient, it was
good!! He told us that he is speaking in General Conference in the
Saturday Morning session about Practical Application in using The
Atonement in our Lives. His name is Elder Larry Lawrence, be on the
lookout for him!
Our investigator Pierre is not on date for baptism anymore because
he believes he needs to wait to be baptized until his wife Dee can be
baptized as well, but he does still want to meet with us. I agree with
him, it is best to be unified as a couple instead of doing it
individually.
So we are continuing to work with him, he's a great man! He is coming
to know and feel The Gospel is true as he is doing and becoming
through the gospel principles we have taught him. Pierre is the only
one progressing right now and all of the other investigators we have
are either about to be dropped or about to start progressing. We're
focusing on finding a lot now, we need to find some families who are
ready for baptism here in the Ypsi Ward!
Yesterday after MLCM we had a pretty sweet miracle: We prayed to
know where we should go and then we went there. Got to this street and
had about 15 minutes to find. We found a man who was Christian, told
us we could come back on another day when he wasn't so busy with his
kids and stuff. Then we had an appointment fall through so we had
another 30 minutes to go finding and we found 2 more potentials down
that same street, pretty solid ones too. One of them had met with
missionaries previously and she had decided that The Church wasn't for
her but we helped her realize that she didn't even come to Church to
see for herself if it was right for her! So she's planning on meeting
with us again and coming to Church. Then right before our appointment
at 8:00pm we had 10 minutes to go finding. We found this really
sincere Catholic guy who was just finishing mowing his lawn. Talked to
him for a while about the Family Proclamation and how the family is so
essential to society today yet it is so neglected. He wanted to learn
more about the Restoration. Boom, 4 potentials in about an hour of
finding spread out through the evening before appointments. God does
provide when we have faith in Him and labor with all diligence!
I know the importance of obedience in the mission and in our lives
as members. We have a great opportunity to sustain 2 Apostles next
month in General Conference. We "Sustain" them as we come to know that
they indeed have been called by God, and we hearken to their counsel
they give us by listening and applying. Have a great week ya'll!
-Elder Goff
was surreal. It's hard to believe I've been in Michigan for a year!
Thanks Mom and family for the package, it was super cool! And the
Rankin family as well, that was a sweet package. I appreciate all of
you who support me and other full-time servants of The Lord! Hearing
from you through mail and packages is always a highlight of our week.
We had a member of the Seventy come to our mission yesterday and he
did an MLCM with all of us. We decided as a council to set higher
standards for our mission so from now on, we will only be able to
listen to one kind of music: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing
Hymns!! It won't be too bad of a change, I just worry about some of
the other missionaries here who will resist. He talked with us about
exact obedience and what it truly means to be exactly obedient, it was
good!! He told us that he is speaking in General Conference in the
Saturday Morning session about Practical Application in using The
Atonement in our Lives. His name is Elder Larry Lawrence, be on the
lookout for him!
Our investigator Pierre is not on date for baptism anymore because
he believes he needs to wait to be baptized until his wife Dee can be
baptized as well, but he does still want to meet with us. I agree with
him, it is best to be unified as a couple instead of doing it
individually.
So we are continuing to work with him, he's a great man! He is coming
to know and feel The Gospel is true as he is doing and becoming
through the gospel principles we have taught him. Pierre is the only
one progressing right now and all of the other investigators we have
are either about to be dropped or about to start progressing. We're
focusing on finding a lot now, we need to find some families who are
ready for baptism here in the Ypsi Ward!
Yesterday after MLCM we had a pretty sweet miracle: We prayed to
know where we should go and then we went there. Got to this street and
had about 15 minutes to find. We found a man who was Christian, told
us we could come back on another day when he wasn't so busy with his
kids and stuff. Then we had an appointment fall through so we had
another 30 minutes to go finding and we found 2 more potentials down
that same street, pretty solid ones too. One of them had met with
missionaries previously and she had decided that The Church wasn't for
her but we helped her realize that she didn't even come to Church to
see for herself if it was right for her! So she's planning on meeting
with us again and coming to Church. Then right before our appointment
at 8:00pm we had 10 minutes to go finding. We found this really
sincere Catholic guy who was just finishing mowing his lawn. Talked to
him for a while about the Family Proclamation and how the family is so
essential to society today yet it is so neglected. He wanted to learn
more about the Restoration. Boom, 4 potentials in about an hour of
finding spread out through the evening before appointments. God does
provide when we have faith in Him and labor with all diligence!
I know the importance of obedience in the mission and in our lives
as members. We have a great opportunity to sustain 2 Apostles next
month in General Conference. We "Sustain" them as we come to know that
they indeed have been called by God, and we hearken to their counsel
they give us by listening and applying. Have a great week ya'll!
-Elder Goff
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