On Wednesday 4th September, Joel was set apart by our President Shum as a full time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in preparation to serve in the Ghana Accra mission. He is now officially a missionary.
This was a cool experience. There was a time when I thought I might have been the Stake President to set Joel apart. Then I was released and we thought that President Rigby was going to do the honours. As it turns out, our ward was reassigned to be part of Fairfield Stake and so the task fell to President Shum.
The next day we farewelled Joel at the airport as he made his way to Ghana to serve for the next two years.
My thoughts go back to when I was set apart as a missionary by President Robert K. Thomas back in 1986. These are events you never forget.
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