Today, we had one of the best sacrament meetings I have ever been to. It was Sister John's mission farewell. She is going on a mission to Salt Lake Temple square history center. Brother Gibbons spoke first. He said that Sister Johns and president Johns helped his dad and mom get to the temple and how often when he is in the temple or when he looks at his family he thinks of them with gratitude. He said the story of Ammon in the Book of Mormon was always his favorite. The servants of the king looked at the event of the thieves scattering the sheep with an earthly prospective. They greatly feared that the king would kill them as he had their relatives. Ammon looked at the same experience with an eternal perspective and had joy that the event would allow him to show the power of the Lord. When Sister Johns told Jeff that she had been called on a mission he reacted with at earthly point of view and thought the bishop was terrible to ask such a thing of her. He asked sister Johns how she could possibly handle the physical and emotional stresses of a mission. She told him "the Lord would have to make it happen"...Sister Johns is looking at the event of a mission with an Eternal perspective of an event that the Lord could show his power to help her through. Then Sister Johns spoke and she talked about the night before her meeting with the bishop she thought of all the callings in the ward that the bishop might possible be calling her to and she thought that she really couldn't do any of them. So in her nightly prayer she promised the Lord that she would say yes and try to fulfill any calling the Bishop gave her. When the Bishop told her the Lord wanted her to go on a mission she knew she could never ever do it. Her health has been so bad she can barely walk and she can't climb stairs and she has not been in good health. She will turn 85 next week!!!!! She asked the bishop how she could ever do it and he said lets ask the Lord so they prayed and during the prayer she recalled the words of her nightly prayer the night before and she told the bishop yes. Since that time the Drs. have given the OK for her health and she found a place to live with an elevator and she got a scooter (like the seat kind at Walmart I guess) to ride to the history center where she will work and she is ready to go. She found things about serving a mission in her patriarchal blessing that she hadn't thought of before. She still feels very frightened but she knows the Lord will be with her and she will "go and do what the Lord commands" I will miss her a lot. The meeting really strengthened my testimony.