A Florida Fort Lauderdale mission story shared by President Anderson in a recent letter to the missionaries…

“We were about to quit on the floor that we were harvesting on because everyone we had talked to on that floor denied us.  But we then decided to knock out the remaining doors (there was like 4) we knocked a couple still with no luck and then we knock on the last door.  This nice lady opens the door and says ‘Do you believe in Christ’ we said yes and she asked ‘only Christ? We said yes again and she said ‘good’ and let us right in.  We were walking in and she was telling her husband that she felt a spirit super strong when we walked in.  We blessed them and… We invited them to baptism. They accepted right off the bat, then we invited to church and unfortunately they couldn’t because of a beach party they already committed to. So we left absolutely pumped because we found this sweet family. We took the elevator down and got to the bottom when out running from the stairs was the grandma and her granddaughter and she told us that the granddaughter said she didn’t want to go to the party anymore because she felt something so great she wanted to go to church.. We were both like.. WHAT?!  It was awesome to see! So they came to church and loved it and are preparing for baptism!”

Our friends the Bells wrote on their blog about a missionary who was serving in their mission who was close to one of their sons in California. That got me thinking about missionaries who are serving here in the Fort Lauderdale Mission who have a few degrees of separation from us…

Last Saturday we met a sister from Utah who was a student at the middle school in Utah where our daughter is the librarian. She remembers Cindy very well because she spent a lot of her time in the library doing school work. When we talked to Cindy about meeting sister Packard she did not remember her…it was 4 years ago and a lot of students have gone through the library since then.

Elder Fitts is the son of Cindy’s Stake President and knows our grandson Tyler very well.

Elder Shipley goes to the same ward as the above mentioned Bells and knows them very well.

Elder Grant was a member of the Camden ward where our serial missionary friends the Taylors served their last mission. We served with the Taylors in Indonesia and they are now serving in Botswana as part of the Johannesburg  South Africa mission.

I will try to get pictures of each of these missionaries at Zone Conferences over the next couple weeks and plug them in here. Somewhere down below is a picture of Elder Grant because he serves here in the district we go to each week for district meeting. Come to think of it Elder Fitts is now one of the zone leaders for that district.