The Southampton missionaries had to pack up their things in preparation for the possibility of being evacuated due to Hurricane Hermine. It was a good practice run as the storm forecast started with super storm flooding and ended up being only cloudy. Along with this excitement, the week brought other “bizarre” encounters. One person they…
Pure Religion…This is the desire of our hearts.
Elder McConkie’s letter can be divided into two portions. The later part includes his experiences within the week. And although it doesn’t site specific situations, I am sure this first part is in response to many of the experiences he has encountered over the past almost 6 months. Our family loves reading and learn so…
Alma 31:5
Last week Elder McConkie took his letter writing time to send some personal notes to our family. One thing to mention from last week’s letters home was that he was so excited two of the people he teaches (we call them Paul and Linda) came to church. He has been teaching these two for quite…
God is in the details of our lives
In Elder McConkie’s words: “Wow. What a crazy week. In retrospect, there was almost no normal thing about this last week, however there was plenty of growth.” There was a lot of driving back and forth this past week from their area to the mission office and thereabouts. Elder Sirrine, the Zone/District leader was called…
Virtue originates in your innermost thoughts and desires
This last week has been a learning week, as they all are. I have sincerely been asking for a change of heart, a change of character, and I found that as an answer to those pleas the Lord has helped me better understand his doctrine. This is why the Spirit is so important in…
God Never Ceases To Amaze Me
The scriptures say that when you feel the love of God, experience that mighty change of heart, are willing to repent and desire “no more to do evil” (mind you, that doesn’t mean you are perfect by any means: repentance and change is a life-long repeat), then, you will receive the desire to share…
Charity: OUR Love of Christ
This last week was pretty good! To start off, we met 5-6-7!!! This is our mission wide goal for the year. It’s 500,000 seeds planted (a seed is a minimum of mentioning the church to someone), 60,000 lessons taught, and 7,000 referrals contacted. In order for this to happen, each companionship needs to plant…
The Refiner’s Fire
Sounds like it has been a week with many challenges put one on top of the other. Elder McConkie has felt the weight which can cause weariness or discouragement. You can hear it in his words. In his personal note, he asked us to write some of our favorite memories with him for a pick…
They say I have “greenie fire.” If that’s the case, then I plan to be a greenie forever.
We read Elder McConkie’s email on our way back from visiting Grandpa and Grandma T. Monday. Though rich with spiritual insight, the letter this week was quite lengthy and I was wondering whether his younger siblings would exhaust their attention spans. Instead, as we finished up, each one talked over each other expressing how grateful they are that the…
People Tend To Grow In The Light In Which We ‘Place’ Them
This last week has been a great one! We’ve been going around saying goodbye to everyone with Elder Johnson. We had our Branch Clam Bake on Saturday, where Carl brought hundreds of clams he caught (and we helped him prepare) and we all ate them. That same night we had a baptism for the…
Michael McConkie 