My new area is Livonia North, I've loved it so far! Part of our area is in Detroit so I can officially say I have served in Detroit now :) We drive a minivan so that's pretty fun, it's a Dodge Caravan. Whenever we pull up to an appointment I feel kinda weird getting out of a van, I wonder what our investigators think? I'm sure I'll get used to it.
As Assistants we have to do a lot of administrative stuff that is pretty menial sometimes, it is a privilege to be able to have my own personal studies now and have time to proselyte in my own area! I like it though, I'm looking forward to working closely with President Gerber, he is a great man!! I love him so much. I'm trying to be the best example I can to the mission by working hard and being exactly obedient.
My new companion is Elder Fluckiger! He's from Highland, Utah and he's a stud! Played the trumpet back home, he can sing pretty well, we get along. I know we'll be able to move the work forward here in the Michigan Detroit Mission as we seek Heavens help together.
I'll start off talking about the day of transfers! We ended up driving all over the mission to deliver bikes and other things to missionaries that they needed nearly the entire day, I felt super unproductive because of that! We were able to go out and work that night though so that helped out a lot.
We are teaching a lot of people here! We are working with 4 individuals who are planning on being baptized within the next month. I talked to Elder Chandler today and he said the Helena, our Chinese Investigator back in Ypsi North, came to Church on Sunday!! That was great to hear. He said that she borrowed his Gospel Principles book and said she would read it.
I want to close by talking about thise experience we had last night while tracting at about 8:45pm.
We talked with this guy who had lost all of his faith that God even existed, and he kept asking us to prove to him that there is a God. You could tell by conversing with him the hole that was in his life. So much negativity lingered off of each word he said. The light in his eyes was dim, and we tried our best to help him gain a correct understanding of faith but he ended up just closing the door on us. I likened it to Lehi's dream of the Tree of Life. The mists of darkness obviously dominated this man's vision. He was blinded and deceived so he could not see clearly, even when truth was presented to him. Satan can't just desensitize us like that very quickly, but over time as we give into temptation, we allow the darkness more and more into our lives until we can't even see what really matters in life. So what is the prevention and solution to this problem?? The iron rod Nephi described. If we hold fast to the word of God, we never will fall away because our sights will be clear and we will exercise prudence in our decisions. I know that if we study our scriptures consistently, the adversary will have a much harder time entering our lives.
Have a good week everyone!
-Elder Goff
New Companions-Elder Fluckiger and Elder Goff
Elder Hidie and Elder Goff, dropping off at the airport.
Elder Goff will sure miss Elder Hidie
Elder Price and Elder Goff
