Our Saturday morning visits paid off in a small way today. We had 2 of our new AIT students come out to Sacrament meeting today, and a couple of others who we have been visiting and helping out regularly. It was great to see them come out.

After our typical Sabbath Day services, we had an appointment with a family who live in their RV. The Post has an RV camp located out by Leitner Lake. It is quite a drive to get out there from the main part of the Post, but the drive is beautiful through an extensive wooded area. Finally, you get out to the lake and we find that the RV sites are not numbered with visible indications of which site is which. So rather than looking for site 10 we simply looked for the site with the car with Utah license plates. While we visited we learned that in the 6 years they have been a military family, they have moved 10 times. So sometime ago they decided to buy an RV and put their children on virtual school based on Utah's school system. They will be here at Fort Gordon for about 6 months, then off they will go again. We had a very enjoyable visit with them. Elder Gowans left them with a thought that was no doubt in his mind inspired of heaven. Everything he taught was taught to him at the moment by the Holy Spirit. He began the thought asking the children if they had ever planted a seed (the children are 11a boy and 7 a girl). They both shook their heads yes and then revealed at the front of the RV in the window behind the drapes several pots of herbs growing. So they brought him a pot of basil. He then asked them what the important elements were to grow the seeds. 1. Fertile Soil, 2. Sunshine, 3. Water. So then he likened this to the Word of God being planted in our hearts. Our hearts are the fertile soil; then he asked them what the other two elements would be likened to. The children came up with the answers: Prayer would be the sunshine and the rain would be scripture study. With the combination of these 3 elements, our testimonies would grow in our hearts.