God’s children on the earth today have the opportunity to understand His plan of happiness for them more fully than at any other time.
A few weeks ago Elder Melvin R. Perkins, who is an Area Seventy serving in Alaska, and I stood at the pulpit in front of the congregation of the Vancouver British Columbia Stake in Canada. In a moving voice he invited the Saints to consider the image before them: a descendant of Mormon handcart pioneers and a pioneer convert of the Church from a faraway African nation serving the Lord side by side. …
http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-33,00.html
(October 2009 General Conference talk by Elder Joseph W. Sitati of the Seventy)
What a wonderful image.
I think he is a beautiful speaker.
As my former mission President,he gave part of this speach as it applied to us then and now. From his own life, you will see a clear picture of what he teachers.I pray to have the ability to apply his teachings of the gospel.Following his examples in applying the gospel at home brings a kind of pease in the heart of that is invovled.