Elder Brantley Shattuck:

February 11, 2009
This past Saturday I got the amazing opportunity to hear Elder Holland speak and he gave some really great analogies while teaching the leadership of the D.C. South and North missions. A couple of quotes from him that have stuck with me ever since, "In this church we bow our heads and say YES!!!" and another "Kick when you don't want to kick and Stroke when you don't want to stroke"(told a story of an amazing swimmer and stuff...)He speaks with power though and he bore his testimony telling us that he was a witness of Christ and that he lives, man it was so intimidating yet comforting, neat feelings though. Then, later that night Elder Oaks came and spoke at an adult session for Stake conference in the stake that I am serving in, he was just cracking jokes all night long and even into Sunday's session. I was able to go and greet him and introduce myself and I even gave him a hug!!! How sick is that???? We also had an investigator that was with us and Elder Oaks took him out into the hall and put both of his arms up on his shoulders, looked him straight into the eye and shared his testimony with conviction, then he poked the investigator right in the chest about 3-4 times and said, "Listen to these missionaries and get it into your Heart, what they share is true...." Then he walked off and our investigator turned and looked at me, his eyes were huge and he just said, woa!!! It was pretty powerful yet very funny as well... I am doing well though and just know that the work is moving right along... Love ya tell the family hello...