Elder Ulisses Soares in the Michigan Lansing Mission
Dear Family and Friends, What a marvelous weekend with had with a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Elder Ulisses Soares on April 23-24! We've been in Michigan for about 22 months, but Saturday, April 23 was the first time we ever saw our entire mission in one place as we gathered to receive instruction from Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve, Elder Brent H. Nielson of the Presidency of the Seventy, and Elder Kelly R. Johnson of the Seventy. We were able to invite a photographer, Brother Hall from the Lansing Stake, to take our picture. That feat took some planning and a very tall ladder to fit us all in. Brother Hall remembered his own mission as he saw all of the missionaries of the Michigan Lansing Mission gather in one place. He got emotional about the missionaries' opportunity to hear from an Apostle and said he wished he could be a missionary again, but he knows his wife and kids would have something to say about it. Elder Anderson, Elder Bonh...