Letter from President Huff

 Dear Brother and Sister Smith,

      Your son Andrew is a very remarkable young man.  He is always looking for ways to help and to serve others.  I have been the recipient of his service on occasion.  

      As you may know our mission covers 4 countries and 4 different languages.  With the COVID pandemic we did not receive any missionaries in almost 14 months.  So, when this group of 17 came, not all of the languages were represented and I have more than enough learning Russian.  I asked these missionaries on the day they arrived if any one of them would be willing to learn and then teach and find people in either Latvian or Lithuanian.  I asked them to search their hearts and then ask their Heavenly Father if that is something they would be willing to do.  Then to have them tell me the following morning.  Your son came forward and said he would do whatever I needed.  What a wonderful young man he is!  I asked if he would learn Lithuanian and shared with me that he had been praying and for some time felt that he should learn Lithuanian.  It was a very sweet experience.  I would like to inform you that I just asked the missionary department if we could make the change.  It needs to be reviewed by a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, and I just received word yesterday that it was approved.  

  Thank you again!  It is such an honor to have him here in Croatia.  The plan is to travel to Riga on Friday, April 23rd and have them begin to work on obtaining a residency permit to serve in Lithuania at the earliest possible time. 

 

Thank you again!

 

President Huff

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