Today Fort Lauderdale zone met together and Mary took some pictures of companionships that I was not able to get on transfer day.
 
 
Sister Stegelmeier is training sister Herrera in the Davies area. Sister Pickup is being trained by sister Escorbores in the Hollywood Hills West area. Sister Lake is training sister Bean in Riverside Park.
 
 
Here are two pictures of elders Smoot and Bishop the zone leaders. Elder Smoot was born in the Fort Lauderdale zone and we had the opportunity to get to know him from then. It is good to have him back and serving with elder Bishop. The first picture is a little blurry – the second one is sharper but obviously elder Bishop did not expect Mary to snap the picture quite so soon. As mentioned below the couples in the mission – except for E/S McCormick got together Monday night. The Evans are in front with president and sister Anderson. In the back from left to right are the Bares, Â DeGraffenreids, Sommerfeldts, us, the Collins, Boices and Barrys.
Thank you so much for putting regular updates on your blog! I have been enjoying your posts for the last few months, and it’s SOOO much fun to get a little peek into the life our son is living there. It brings a smile to my face each week! He is surrounded by great people, and that gives a parent a lot of comfort. Thank for being so diligent with your blog–you are doing a great service for all of us who watch it!
Merry Christmas and thank you,
Michelle Smoot
(p.s. my sister is married to John Bartholomew, Larry & Karen Bartholomew’s son)
Well that almost makes us related! We just got back from the annual Christmas Conference and I have a number of pictures that includes Elder Smoot including one with Santa. It will take me a while to get the pictures on the blog…there are 120 to go through and edit down to reasonable amount.
BTW your son is a truly dedicated and faithful missionary. My wife said that elders Bishop and Smoot gave an excellent training session.