Because of Zone training on Tuesday, Fort Lauderdale’s regular district training was moved to today. We greatly enjoy going to DM and just being with the missionaries.  Usually they run 90 minutes but today it was only an hour because of the zone training.

  

It was the last DM in Fort Lauderdale for elder Bishop who will be leaving the mission a week from tomorrow. Other than getting a little choked up when we sang ‘God be with You til We Meet Again,’ there was no indication that he was even thinking about leaving. All he wanted to do was to help the missionaries in the district improve their teaching. Elders Thorne, Rondo, Smoot and Bishop are in the first picture. The dark haired man at the end was introduced as Josh and he was with the ZLs. Mary, sister Lake, elders Smoot, Taylor, Rellaford, Thorne and Rondo are next. Elder Bloom led the music while sister Bean – who was hidden away behind the piano – played. Elder Bloom keeps good time and knows what he is doing.

  

Another table shot as we sang – the quality of singing varies depending on the song. We sang some of the verses of ‘A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief’ as the opening song and there was a lively discussion of just which to sing. I think we ended up with 1, 3, 6 & 7. Later the ZLs came in to pick up a package for elder Bishop. A farewell gift of cookies which he gladly shared. After that sisters Herrera and Stegelmeier came in to take of some business and I got this great picture of sister Herrera’s smile.

  

Even when they are in the office, they keep busy with their investigators. Here sister Stegelmeier makes an important call. I even caught the companionship together. In the evening we went back to the Fort Lauderdale chapel for the Ward Missionary Correlation meeting. Bishop Brown says that he wears his Scout uniform so he does not have to wear a white shirt and tie. It is a lively meeting but there are not many potential baptisms this week.

By the time we got home we were happy to just relax and eat some dinner.