Kynlie's Mission Adventures: November 2013

November 19, 2013

Given by President Peter Larkin

Sister Kynlie Godfrey...by the power of the Melchizedek Priesthood which we hold, and having been given authority by our Stake President who holds the keys to the administration of this stake, we lay our hands upon your head, at this time, to set you apart as a full time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We bear testimony to you of what a wonderful thing it is to be known as a missionary full time, as a sister for our Heavenly Father. You have been called to serve in the Russia, Moscow mission. We also bear testimony of the divinity of this calling. And as an apostle and others sat and reviewed where to send you, that truly our father in heaven inspired them to determine where he would have you serve at this point in time.

We express our great love to you and our great confidence in you as you have gone through the refiners fire in preparation to leave at this time. We bless you through the power of the priesthood that you will be calm, that you will have peace with your decision, that you will look forward to this wonderful opportunity to devote all your attention to our Heavenly Father. We bless you with strength and confidence of character of mind and emotion that as you go through this, that you will be able to focus on your responsibilities as a missionary, on those that you have been entrusted to bring this gospel to...that you will be sensitive to the spirit in doing so. That as you go about your studies and your preparations as a missionary, and then as you are trackting, and your involvement with investigators, that you will truly be sensitive to the spirit, that you will know the things to say...you will know how to bear testimony such that the spirit of conversion and the testimony of understanding will be with you.

We bless you with patience with this people. They come from a very different social background. You will find it much more difficult to get into doors and to speak openly with people than here in the United States. But we bless you that you will have divine patience with them as our Heavenly Father does. That you will give what you can and take what you can, and do nothing more important than but love them, and bear testimony to them. Kynlie, we bless you as well, that through your experience as a missionary, that you will truly come to know the Savior. That the testimony that you have now will be enlarged so much more than it is. That you will be great in understanding of the depth of our Heavenly Father's love for his children. We bless you to recognize that he has inspired the leaders of this church to put so much effort and so much work into sending out people to every work place, every climb, every mountain, every valley, every city, every ally way throughout this world, because of the great love he has for each individual. And we bless you to embrace that same love and understanding.

Kynlie, we bless you to be inspired with regards to your safety as well. We recognize that there is much danger throughout the world. But we also bear testimony to you that our Heavenly Father watches over his missionaries, and he will inspire you. You will have strong feelings when there is potential danger, both temporally and spiritually. And that you will be wise, that you will listen to that inspiration and act accordingly. And as you do this, you will never fear. You will have confidence that our Heavenly Father will watch out for you. We bless your family through you... that they will be uplifted, that their testimonies will be strengthened. We bless Chanler through you, that as he moves closer to the age in which he can serve a mission, that your example, and that your thoughts and your prayers in all that you communicate with him, will give him inspiration to follow, so he too might be blessed by the willful

service of being a missionary. We express our great love to you again, bless you with all the confidence, strength of emotion and spirit that you will need as you move forth at this time. You will find great joy in this experience. And this we do, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.