This past week, the Texas Houston Mission was blessed to have Elder and Sister Christoffel Golden come on a mission tour. Elder Golden has been a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy since 2001. He and his family are faithful church members from South Africa. While he was here, he held three mission conferences where he met with three zones each day. He also held leadership training meetings each afternoon, interviewed a few missionaries, visited with the office staff and inspected an apartment or two. His evenings were spent doing a youth fireside and a meeting where missionaries could bring recent converts and investigators to learn more about the Church. We all learned a lot from Elder Golden! He is a master teacher. Among other things, he primarily taught us to set higher goals and raise our expectations in sharing the gospel by trusting in the Lord and His promises rather than in our own skills and strength.
Before each conference, a group picture was taken. Aside from a few late arrivals, most missionaries are pictured. We also managed to take a few pictures during lunch, but ran out of time at the last conference. A big thank you to local Relief Society sisters for providing yummy food for us to eat!
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| Elder and Sister Golden |
