A Seventy Hugged Me (11/19/2018)

Missionary Mondays are back.

We had Stake Conference yesterday, presided over by Elder J. Costa of the Seventy as well as Elder Kunz. Before it began Elder Costa came up to us in the back of the gym, greeted us in Spanish, and hugged us. I didn't even fully realize it was him--I'd seen a picture of him but it's always a little different seeing them in person. It was a good conference. Most of it was the release of a longtime stake presidency and the calling of a new one. The new stake president, President Coburn, didn't even arrive until midway through everything because he got his call kinda by surprise and he was in Utah at his son's or somebody's temple wedding. So he and his wife flew back on a red-eye flight which I used to know the definition of but all I know now is that (I assume) it's inconvenient, and arrived in the nick of time I guess, haha.

Things are getting pretty cold here. Already it's snowed pretty decently heavy twice, including this morning. Good thing my goal this transfer is to forget myself or I might never go outside.

"Deep in our souls is an echo—a memory—that tells us this is why we came to earth. We accepted our Father in Heaven’s plan first and foremost because we wanted to become like Him. We knew that it was a staggering goal that would never be easy to achieve. But we simply couldn’t be satisfied with anything less. Our souls were created to grow, and we were stirred then and now to make the journey."

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, December 2018 Ensign

Love,

Elder Gallagher