Daily Archives: January 5, 2013

Zone Leaders Council…Saturday!

Normally Zone Leaders’ Council is held on the first Friday of each month but this month it was moved to the first Saturday! Since we know that the ZLs like to come in after the meeting and pick up supplies for themselves and their zones, we decided to come in for a couple of hours and open the office. This gave us a chance to do a few things while helping the missionaries get what they needed to be more successful. Besides we love to see and talk to the missionaries and this is one of those times when we get to see some that are in zones some distance to the office so we do not see much of them.

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Elder Bishop looks over the books that are prepared for incoming missionaries to try and guess which one will be his replacement. He will be leaving the mission on the 17th but I know that he will be doing his best to invite others to come unto Christ right to the end. Elders Beer and Smoot look at the board. Elder Bjorling has a pile of supplies to take to the Stuart zone.

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Elder Gust is trying to explain to Mary why some of the information is missing from a baptismal record that came from the Miami Beach zone. Elder Skousen is wearing his much admired pink tie while gathering things for Missionaries in the Homestead zone and then found his way in to talk to Mary.

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Elders Torres of Coral Springs zone and Edwards from Stuart are hard at work- zone leaders keep very busy. Elder Bjorling is looking on. The most popular room in the office today was the supply room. The only one that I can see clearly is elder Plowman who is a Palm Beach zone leader. I managed to catch just a glimpse of elder Brown from Miami. Elders Bishop and Smoot play for the camera…they are very use to me taking their pictures because they are the Fort Lauderdale ZLs and we see each other just about every week.

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Elders Badillo, Williams and Beer gather for a picture…unfortunately elders William and Beer could not keep their eyes open. Elders Badillo and Williams do better together. Elder Williams seems to have been in a number of my pictures. In the final picture he is with elder Bjorling.

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As I looked at this picture of elder Smoot I realized that he came into the mission on the transfer after we arrive and he was trained by elder George in the district we were privileged to go to. He will also be here when we are released. I dug back in the blog and came up with a picture of this great district. In front is sisters Mill, Hong, Holder, and us. In the back are elders George, Smoot, Clark, Beard, Meredith, Stohlton. All of those missionaries except for elder Smoot have now returned home. To fill in the row I put in a picture of four of those missionaries who invited us to have lunch with them at Flanigans.

The last two to leave were elders Edwards and Bjorling – who also had the longest drive back to their zone. We finished up what we were working on and left for the day. I can not think of a better way to spend a couple of hours than doing the Lord’s work and meeting with some great missionaries.