General Authority Tour June 2012

We began our Zone Conference with Elder Olsen reminding the missionaries to drive defensively. Sister Baker reminded them be clean and presentable at all times. Sister Baker was also the first speaker at our regular meetings and talked about the atonement, using the story of Abigail in 1 Samuel 25 as a metaphor. President Baker talked about the Holy Ghost. This is always something the missionaries want to understand better so he used Elder Bednar’s talk from April 2011 to explain that the Holy Ghost is sometimes like turning on a light in a dark room, sometimes like the sun coming up, and sometimes like the sun coming up behind the fog (something we know a lot about in our mission.) The Holy Ghost is our foretaste of heaven so we wouldn’t want to do anything that would cause him to leave.

Our guests for Zone Conference were Elder Paul V. Johnson of the First Quorum of the Seventy and Sister Jill Johnson. Sister Johnson spoke about being obedient and submitting our will to the Father’s, referring to the converts of Ammon in the Book of Mormon. Elder Johnson chose three missionaries from the audience to deliver their talks on “How my understanding of the Doctrine of Christ affects the way I do missionary work.” Elder Johnson has a background in Educational Instruction (He is currently head of CES) so he taught the missionaries how facts need a different kind of teaching than skills do. He then explained that spiritual knowledge also requires a special kind of learning which includes making and keeping commitments. This is required of both missionaries and investigators. Elder Johnson also talked with the missionaries about how they can be “low maintenance, high yield.” Elder and Sister Johnson are seated in all of the zone pictures below.

 Athens Zone:

Griffith Zone:

Lakewood Zone:

Metro Zone:

Central Zone:

Marina Zone:

Westwood Zone:

Peninsula Zone:

South Bay Zone:

Seniors:

Zone Leaders June 2012

Front:  Elders Powell, Takogawa, Kasteler, Grover, Skousen, Gonzalez, Salzl, Warr.
Back:  Taylor, Clements, Ogden, Shannon, Allred, Sithole, Junot, Hernandez, Muse, Kiser, Serranto, Hardman

Visitors

Our grandkids came to visit us! Andrew Baker, President Baker, Hannah Turnbow, Aaron Turnbow, Joshua Baker, Caleb Turnbow, Sister Baker.

Visitor's Center

The Visitor's Center Staff received some special training from Mark Lusvardi from Salt Lake.  Seated:  Sisters Merciales, Thompson, Cole, Baeza, Hara, Hudson, Hidalgo, Kim, and Bernstein.  Standing:  Sisters Lagos, Olivo, Moom, Olsen, Bell, Hall, Mueller, Saiz, Franks, Davis, Orellano, Cho, Oteiza-Hernandez, and Bodily.  Adults Elder and Sister Grover, Elder and Sister Shakespear, Sister and Elder Hardy, Elder Lusvardi.  Our Sisters represent the countries of Mexico, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, the Phillipines, El Salvador and the United States.