ELDER VINSON'S ZONE TOUR, A CALL FOR MORE DEDICATION

Have you ever learnt under the feet of General Authorities of the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints? I tell you, they are all called of God. They teach the plain and pure truth. They teach the word of God.

This was the same experience I had recently at our Mission Tour in Nigeria Owerri Mission. Immediately Elder Vinson stepped his foot into the Mission Home you just can feel something different. He arrived Nigeria Owerri Mission Home on the 24th day of August, 2016.

Nigeria Owerri Mission Home

After meeting with the Mission President and His wife for a few minutes, he was taken for a tour of the mission home and that was when I had the privilege of shaking this dedicated servant of the Lord.

After the tour of the Mission home he met with the Mission President (President Aliche), His wife (Sister Aliche) and the Assistants (Elder Iniunam and Elder Anamoah). They had dinner and discussed. Not also forgetting a leadership council he had the same day with members of Mission's Leadership Council comprising of the Assistants, Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders.

But the highlight of the whole visit was recorded much later the next day (25th August, 2016) when he met with all the missionaries. Elder Vinson taught us the importance of reverence in a meeting, missionaries forget this when they were laughing loudly hearing the departing missionaries bear their testimonies in the tour. Elder Vinson seeing this halted the Tour and allowed everyone to take some few minutes break coming back to continue this time in a much more reverent manner.

Elder Vinson taught with power and authority (Mosiah 13:6) and he spoke the Truth from God (Mosiah 12:30), to some they could have been angry (Mosiah 13:8) initially, but what he did helped bring reverence to the meeting. We were all edified at the end of the day.

Front Seat (Elder and Sister Vinson)/President and Sister Aliche with all Missionaries

Much later, he had a meeting with the Ward and Stake Leaders, I was opportuned to be in that meeting because I was to play the Video on Slides. One lesson i will never forget in a hurry from Elder Vinson is that as a leader we must be conversant with the handbook of instruction and he was. Just like the words of Sister Vinson, I can boldly tell you that Elder Vinson does what he preaches. He is indeed a servant of the Lord and as a missionary and i can tell that the mission as a whole were edified and happy to have him come.
 
  
Elder Otumbari