Dear Brother and Sister Morris,
I wanted to let you know that your daughter arrived here in the RussiaSamara Mission last night at 9:45 pm from Salt Lake City via Moscow. By thetime we got her and her group to the mission apartments it was well pastmidnight and so we let her get a good nights sleep so that she could awakefull of energy.
During our orientation day today and her interview with me she seemed to be doing extremely well and was excited to get to work with her new companion.I have had Sister Bennett attach a photo of the three of us, taken duringour orientation day.
Her Preparation Day is Monday, and so you should usually expect an emailfrom her most Mondays. Email here is sometimes somewhat sporadic; so if you don¹t receive an email, please don¹t worry. To ensure that she receives an email each week from you, we have found it works well if you send your email on Sundays as our preparation days can change due to transfers, zone conferences and visa trips.
Thank you for lending your daughter to us for a season. We have sent out a daughter and a son on missions and I know of the sacrifice that you are making. Our daughter served in the Ukraine Kiev Mission three years ago and we understand the uneasiness that you may feel in having a child serve in Europe East Area.
We are not sure what you have heard about the Russian Missions, but we have loved every minute of our time here, feel completely safe and we have fallen in love with the Russian people, especially the faithful Russian saints. Miracles are happening all around us and we know the Lord has prepared many of these souls to accept the gospel. We know that your daughter is one of the valiant ones reserved specifically for this time in this mission and Sister Bennett and I are honored to be able to serve with her. I will stay in close contact with her during her time here and will see her every few weeks in interviews and at zone conferences.
Thank you again for all you have done in preparing such a special daughter of our Heavenly Father and for having the faith to let her serve here with us.
May the Lord bless and keep you.
Love,
President Randall K. Bennett
Russia Samara Mission
My heart is at ease!! She looks great and happy and I'm sure she's having a little teensy bit of culture shock right now :), but she'll get that Russian thing figured out. Go Sister Morris!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful letter! It brings peace to know she's under his direction!
ReplyDeleteToday was the first day I had the sense to dial in on this blog, and WOW, what a powerful and encouraging letter from the mission president! Yay for Sister Morris' safe landing in Samara! Yay that she obviously has the gift of tongues to already understand more of the language than she had thought possible! Our prayers will be with her every day.
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