Temple Preparation Day July 2011

Lakewood:

Marina:

Metro:

Westwood:

Zone Leader Council July 2011

Elders Maddox, Muir, Gagnon, Jacobberger, Bennett, Gilbert, Bigler, Jones, Kelly, Mollinaro, Hernandez, Brady, Tanner, Hall, Hill, Conlin

Fourth of July Barbeque

Arriving Missionaries June 2011

Elder Botti from Missouri, Elder Hill from Utah, Elder Scott from Virginia, Elder Hallan from Minnesota, Sister Oteiza-Hernandez from Quebec, Sister Hildago from El Salvador, Elder Junot from Brazil, Elder Cueto from Utah, Sister Moon from Korea, Sister Saiz from Indiana, Elder Long from Australia, Sister Hudson from California, Elder Summers from Ohio, Elder Koo from Korea, Elder Moli from Tonga, Elder Jeon from Korea, Elder Aholelei from Hawaii.




Trainers: (front) Elder Hough (Moli), Sister Parra (Saiz), Sister Mortensen (Moon), Sister Ashby (Orteiza-Hernandez), Sister Fonokalafi (Hudson), Sister Bustamane (Hidalgo), Elder Powell (Hill), (back) Elders Carroll (Long), Warr (Jaeon), 'Ita'aehau (Summers), Simmons (Botti), Son (Koo), Wilson (Hallan), Roundy (Junot), Jahng (Cueto), Stenquist (Aholelei), Wesley (Scott).

Departing Missionaries June 2011

Front: Kody Wood, Dalin Russell, Britney Milne, Erik Leavell, Daniel Mcrae, Back: Austin Butman, Ethan Franson, Robert Toelupe, Jake Jung, Kyle Isaacson.

Zone Leader Council

Elders Bigler, Muir, Brady, Gagnon, Hall, Thiriot, Jones, Wood, Russell, Bennett, Jacobberger, Kelly, Simmons, Molinaro, Tanner, Equizabel.

Memorial Day Barbeque

The missionaries serving in the northern part of our mission were invited to a barbeque on Memorial Day. (Missionaries in the southern zone will be invited to a similar event on July 4. President Baker cooked 160 hamburgers for about 100 missionaries.

Zone Conferences May 2011

We had Zone Conferences last week from Tuesday through Thursday. Our theme was “The Gathering of Israel.” We always begin by having car safety information and videos. This was Elder Olsen’s first time speaking with the missionaries and inspecting all the cars. Sister Mayorga, who is our new mission nurse talked to the missionaries about digestive problems. Sister Mayorga is a local member who has been in nursing for over 25 years including 8 years in an emergency room. She is now taking sick calls from the missionaries. Sister Baker reminded missionaries that they should call their dinner appointments the night before to confirm and once they have confirmed, they must show up to be dependable and trustworthy.

President Baker led off introducing our theme and helping missionaries understand that they are participating in the urgent work of the Gathering as foretold by the Savior and repeated by Malachi and Moroni. He talked about the restoration of the priesthood keys by Moses, Elias, and Elijah and reminded the missionaries of how all gathering points toward the temple ordinances. He reviewed D&C 109:22,23,39 to help the missionaries understand how important the gathering is. I talked about the Holy Ghost, explaining why the Nephites prayed for the Holy Ghost as “what they desired most.” (3 Nephi 19:9). I got a lot of my material from Hearing the Voice of the Lord, by Gerald Lund.

The assistants presented the “conversion train.” If the missionaries are the drivers and investigators are in the caboose, they discussed why each of the cars is necessary for the investigator to reach their destination. After lunch, the zone leaders presented sessions on finding. We then had a few missionaries selected at the last moment share an example of their own finding. President Baker closed by presenting our mission goal for June (as discussed below.)

Westwood Zone

South Bay Zone

Penninsula Zone

Metro Zone

Marina Zone

Lakewood Zone

Central Zone

HONOR THE FATHERS

During zone conference this week, we have discussed our mission wide goal for June. Our entire mission will be honoring the fathers (our earthly fathers, the fathers of the covenant, our Priesthood leaders, and our Heavenly Father)by being exactly obedient. We have a goal to have each companionship baptise during the month of June, for a total of 93 baptisms. We will start our effort with a mission fast, which will begin with a kneeling prayer by all missionaries at 11:30 am on Friday May 27. We will pray for miracles to help accomplish our objectives and will finish with a kneeling prayer at 11:30 am on Saturday. These cards were handed out to be reminders to the missionaries.

Full Field Sisters

We had a short meeting with our full field sisters after this week's Fundamentals training to review dress standards. Sisters Clark, Milne, Nibley, Molina, Hales, Malani, Alcantara, Pinto, Fitzgerald, Johansen, Villaneuva, and Flake.