Dwight & Susan Potter: "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go"
All In
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
When friends serving as mission leaders in Ghana encouraged Dwight and Susan Potter to submit their mission papers, they didn't hesitate. But the path that followed turned out to be very different from what they expected. In this episode, the Potters share how their willingness to say "yes" led to an unexpected and deeply meaningful journey—one they wouldn't change for anything.
1:46- A Young Missionary to Belgium
3:05- A Change of Plans
5:39- Finding What the Lord Knew All Along
10:55- The Language of Love
14:26- Miracles Have Not Ceased
30:07- Smiling Faces and Grateful HeartsÂ
32:38- The Experience of a Senior MissionÂ
36:03- A Window of Time
40:37- What Does It Mean to Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
"If you'd told me at any point before this that at some point in my life I would be in, like I call it, the backwoods of North Carolina where I grew up teaching people the gospel of Jesus Christ in my mission language I could never have foreseen that—never in my wildest dreams." -Dwight Potter
Links:
Elder Godoy's Conference Talk- https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2025/10/54godoy?lang=eng
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| 0:00.0 | Speaking of the need within the church for senior couples to serve missions, Elder Ronald A. Razband has said, |
| 0:07.0 | there are so many ways senior missionaries can do what no one else can. You are a remarkable force for good, seasoned in the church and poised to encourage and rescue God's children. A mission might be the greatest chapter in a couple's life. |
| 0:22.6 | A good title might be, my Lord will have need of me. The story you're about to hear is a remarkable |
| 0:29.7 | example of that statement. Dwight Potter was born and raised in southeastern North Carolina, |
| 0:35.7 | while Susan Potter was born and raised in southwestern |
| 0:39.1 | California near the Los Angeles area. They met at Brigham Young University and were married in the |
| 0:45.0 | L.A. Temple. Dwight spent his career as an accounting professional and later as a general manager |
| 0:50.7 | in the livestock industry, while Susan was a stay-at-home mom caring for their |
| 0:55.4 | seven children. Dwight did not want her job. They are now grandparents to 14 grandchildren. |
| 1:07.3 | This is All In, an LDS Living podcast where we asked the question, what does it really mean to be all in the gospel of Jesus Christ? |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Morgan Pearson, and I am so honored to have Dwight and Susan Potter on the line with me today. |
| 1:21.1 | Brother and sister Potter, welcome. |
| 1:22.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:22.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:23.4 | Good to be here. |
| 1:25.3 | Well, I will start by saying that I have known the Potters most of my life |
| 1:30.4 | and they are wonderful people and I am just so excited to get to introduce you to so many people |
| 1:37.6 | with this episode. But I wanted to start out because I think this kind of lays some groundwork |
| 1:43.6 | for the conversation that we're |
| 1:44.9 | going to have today. Brother Potter, you served your mission as a young man in Belgium speaking |
| 1:51.7 | French. How did you do with the French language as a young missionary? Well, having been |
| 2:00.2 | raised in the bad woods of southeastern North Carolina, I could |
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