Hi brothers and sisters! I’m Morgan Yates and I have been called to serve my Savior as a missionary of the church. I’ll be serving in the Guatemala Cobán mission for the next 18 months and I am so grateful for that opportunity. If someone asked me this time last year if I could see myself in this place today I probably would have brushed it off and said, eh, maybe. Even if you had asked me 6 months ago, I would have been unsure. But I’m here today, and that is a huge testament to me that prayers are answered. My Father in Heaven is aware of me, He guides me, and has a plan for every one of us. It has kind of been a joke in my family for a while that I’m not much of a “nature person.” Maybe Heavenly Father just wants a little entertainment watching me try to live in the hot, humid, jungle in Guatemala.. all while trying to speak Spanish. Now that I think about it, I think giving this talk is scaring me more than living in the jungle. So bear with me because I’m not too great at this. I’m not very knowledgeable. I don’t necessarily feel like I have much to offer at this time. I’m young and I still have a lot to learn. But I have so much hope because of the most selfless, loving sacrifice anyone could make for us. Christ’s atonement is the thing that will help us become the people we all have the potential to become.
D&C 76:69
says: These are they who are just men
made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out
this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood.
