Today we visited two of the Fort Lauderdale Zone’s district meetings. We did not stay for all of either of them but we did get to hear a very spiritual White Handbook training and say goodbye to some of the many amazing missionaries we have come to know and love while on this mission. As I mentioned in the Fort Lauderdale district meeting, the missionaries are what has given us the greatest spiritual experiences of our mission.

Elder Burt with elders Smoot and Bloom…elder Bloom came back as Zone Leader after being the district leader a couple of transfers ago. Sisters Fletcher, Chavous and Smith chuckle of the the district picture we asked all of them sign.

As usual sister Bean was hidden behind the piano as elder Torres sang the opening song and elder Brimley wrote.

We then went over to the Plantation district meeting and I found this on the back seat of one of the missionary cars…I have no idea which missionaries but they are obviously not keep the rule of no eating in the car. We took a picture with Sister B Johnson who has been in our area for a number of transfer and always has a ready smile.

The Davies and Nova YSA sisters arrive together and I shot a series of pictures as I went to open the door for them. Sister Steglemeier, Dougal, Merrill and Gordon were all waiting patiently to be let in.

I took a shot of sister Stegelmeier calling me rude and managed to also get a fun shot of sister Dougal. They are amazing missionaries who give 110% effort all the time. The Ellis’ were there for the meeting so sister Ellis and sister Pier are behind sisters Gordon and Dougal. I do not remember the name of the young man who brought the ZLs today but he is going to go to Quebec as a Spanish elder…I imagine he will also pick up some French along the way.

 

We caught a last picture with elders Rondo and Wilson who are serving in the Plantation ward. Elder Wilson is back in the zone as district leader. He was here before serving over in the Fort Lauderdale ward. We had to have a picture with sisters Stegelmeier and Merrill – thank you elder Ellis for your help.

From that DM we went to the Sawgrass Mall for the last time and had shrimp Po-Boys from Popeyes…not as good as the one I had down in Key West at Carolines but still a good one.Back in the office elders Patino and Lange pose to show the difference in their height. We had an interesting discussion about the short and tall elders and sisters in the mission…elder Patino and myself rank in the bottom 5% … but of course good things come in small packages and we do not have to duck to go through a door.