Gladys Knight McDowell!

Friday and Saturday nights we took investigators to a series of firesides presented by Gladys Knight and her Saints Unified Voices Choir. It was a fabulous experience and gauging by the audience's reaction there will be many who will join the church, especially among the African Americans present. The missionaries were gathering request cards right and left and I am assuming it was because the testimonies Sister Knight and her husband, William McDowell, bore were so powerful and convincing. It was a privilege to be a part of it all. Two of our investigators filled out cards, one is waiting until after her finals mid December, and the other two asked us to bring copies of the Book of Mormon to Thanksgiving Dinner! This is thrilling!
Elder Gonzales, our Area Authority said that all senior missionaries are to be at Zone Conference, so that is where we were this past Wednesday. From President Satterfield: In training years ago when he was a member of a Stake PResidency, there was an Area Seventy doing the training who had accomplished some stellar successes when he was a STake President. Afterwards, President Satterfield went up and asked him how he did it...what was the magic bullet? His response: "We only did exactly what they asked us to do."
From Sister Satterfield on the power of being positive: Two frogs were hopping through the forest when they fell into a pit. They started hopping with all of their might trying to get out. Another group of frogs came and looked over the edge, and upon seeing the depth of the pit, yelled out, "Why don't you quit wasting your time trying to hop out of this pit....you will never make it...why don't you just lay down and die! One of the frogs believed them, quit trying to get out, laid down and died! The other frog hopped even harder. The frogs above yelled to him...you are crazy punishing yourself like that...you are never going to make it. Just give up, yell the frogs...you are going to die no matter how hard you try. Well...that frog finally was able to get out of that pit! When asked why he didn't believe those frogs who told him it was impossible for him to get out, he responded, "I am deaf. I thought they were cheering me on."