An elusive mystery, that I will always remember

[Note: Phillip’s current mission president, President Almonte, has completed his 3 years of service and goes home this week. His new mission president is also a native of the Dominican Republic. He is coming to Santo Domingo from the northern part of the island where he has been working for the Church Education System.]

I will share a highlight from this past week.

The final conference of Presidente Almonte. It began Wednesday morning with Hermana Almonte giving us some good advice. We have to be happy in the mission. We have to watch what we eat, and we have to clean off the mud from our shoes and iron our shirts.

Then Pres. Almonte gets up and delivers his `Sermon on the Mount`. The best talk I`ve heard from Pte. Almonte. It will definitely be one of my few memories of him after the mission. He went up to the pulpit, said he was going to go by the spirit. He told us to open up D & C 50. He said, “This is the constitution of mission work, you have 35 minutes, study it well.” We read it and then he went back up to the pulpit and explained the section verse by verse. He had some great insights. He said that every church preaches by the spirit, or the light of Christ. But the privilege to preach by the Holy Spirit, the third member of the trinity, belongs to only one church. La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos dias. To be worthy to preach with the Holy Ghost, you just need desire to be better. Ended off with some advice of always choosing righteousness. We all said our final goodbyes to them. My thoughts on Pte. Almonte: A spiritual giant, that I never really knew. An elusive mystery, that I will always remember as my first mission president.