Dear Family and Friends,
We have had an amazing week. First we were able to attend the temple as a Zone on Tuesday. To prepare for this we had a mini Zone meeting. We were asked to write down 2 questions that we have about missionary work in our area, because we had Elder Christoffel Golden Jr. of the First Quorum of the Seventy coming to our Tri Zone Meeting. He is from South Africa. We accounted with the Zone and all of the missionaries earned a tie. We wore the ties to the temple and to Zone Conference. Steve Winn from Mr. Mac sent us the matching ties and sent two extras. We gave the extras to President and Sister Gelwix to wear if they wanted to. Sister Gelwix gave hers to Elder Golden and the President asked the whole Visalia Zone to pose for a picture with Elder Golden. What a spiritual feast and fabulous picture we have from that day.
We also had an early morning baptism for Susan Wood. We met her last November and visited her regularly. She found she had cancer and had surgery. She has worked through many difficult things. She has been working on family names for some time and at this time she has over nine thousand names. The spirit world was cheering when she was baptized. It was so sweet.
Sister Sheffer helped decorate a cake for a wedding and we attend a ward activity on Family Home Evening. It was a circus theme with SPLAT, the parts of a good FHE, Sing, Pray, Lesson, Activity, Treat. It was so creative.
We have transfers and several missionaries or leaving and brand new missionaries are being trained. The gospel is true and the spirit is so important.
"Let on one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." –Mother Teresa
God Bless, Elder and Sister Sheffer
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