Last night I officially found out my last
"assignment" as a missionary. I will
be finishing the next two months of my
mission here in Geneva, working in the
Salève and the Rive-Gauche Wards. Salève
is one of the two I am working in
right now, and is actually the ward where
we have had the two batpisms the last
two weeks, and Rive-Gauche is the Down-town
ward of Geneva which is primarily
Spanish speaking. Our focus is going to be
on the Institute, so we will be
working really hard on finding young adults
to teach. I will be training a
brand new french missionary named Elder G;
I am way excited! We will be
opening this companionship, so we have a
chance to start from nothing and
hopefully over the next two months, have
a lot of great things going on! I know
that this is perfect for me because it will
keep me working hard til the end of
my mission!
(we asked)"any snow yet?"
Not even a snowflake. There is snow in the
mountains though.
I will keep my fingers crossed.
Time always flies by when we are working on
transfers though. That is one thing
I will miss. I love working with the mission
president, especially in seeing
the Lord's hand direct this mission. I also
love how much I learn from working
with these inspired men. We finished with
the transfers last Thursday, but
there were a couple of last minute changes
so I was never sure where I would be
serving. I am very excited for this new
assignment I have though. I love
Geneva! I would love to work here someday.
We also had Stake Conference this last
weekend here in Geneva. Elder Kopsischke
of the seventy, also president of the church
in Europe, came to speak. It was
great seeing him again after working with
him when he toured our mission about 3
months ago. He gave a lot of great talks,
but the thing I think that touched me
the most is when he said that Celestial
Glory and Happiness is not simply living
in the presence of God, because we already
did that in the pre-existance, but
Celestial Glory and Happiness comes from
living AS God lives.
It was an incredible thought.
This upcoming week should be quite eventful,
but also a great experience.
Tomorrow we will pick up the new
missionaries from the airport and go
through the normal acitivities. Wednesday
I am officially out of the office and will be
going with Elder G to this new apartment.
I love it though, it is small,
but very very nice for a missionary apartment;
they just redid it. After that,
I will be working as hard as I can, trying
to explain and help Elder G as much as I can.
It should be a week very different from
the last 7 months I have had here at the
mission home, but I am very excited to see
the Lord direct in everything we do
in talking with people at all times!
Have a great week and remember that I love you!
Love,
Elder Clayton Henderson Welch
1 comment:
What a great spiritual thought! And he looks great!
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