{"id":10257,"date":"2015-03-27T05:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:25:11","slug":"friday-district-meeting-last-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/27\/friday-district-meeting-last-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday – District Meeting – Last Lunch – A Group of Pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most Friday mornings means a trip to Klerksdorp for District Development Meeting and that is what we did today. It was the first one in a long time without our friends E\/S Dummer being with us. But now they are in Switzerland and will soon be flying home to Utah. \u00c2\u00a0\"IMG_8979\"<\/a> \"IMG_8980\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Elder Oldroyd did his usual excellent job of being district leader. The checkerboard will later be filled in with transfer predictions. When I looked at the picture with elders Oldroyd and Liera my first that was elder Liera looks like he is being made to sit in the corner.<\/p>\n

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Mary continued to choose songs to help the elders learn to lead\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u00a6it just never really got through to elder Liera. You can see how happy he is to be asked to lead. Elder McAllister gave the spiritual thought after I gave the quote.<\/p>\n

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Area reports are always given and I was happy to hear elder Oldroyd cut back on how many investigators and less actives they were to report on. Sometimes a pair of elders will get carried away and talk about everyone on their teaching report. I can almost hear elder Oldroyd’s brain clicking.<\/p>\n

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Elder Todd is a solid missionary and just needs to smile a little more often. But he takes his call serious and that is good. He and elder Oldroyd make an interesting companionship<\/p>\n

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Elders Liera and Alvial – everyone has started calling him elder Olive Oil and he thinks that is pretty cool. They were able to report two baptisms for Sunday – Adrian and Joshua Gerber.<\/p>\n

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Elder Oldroyd taught a lesson from PMG – he is always well prepared and gets or at least tries to get a lot of participation from the elders. This weeks lesson was on making PMG more meaningful the second time you read it\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u00a6or perhaps the third or forth time.<\/p>\n

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The final activity of the meeting – other than closing song and prayer – was the prediction board. We will not know who made the best predictions until after transfer meeting and if elder McAllister ends up as DL or not. Then it was time for our traditional Last Lunch at McDonalds.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8995\"<\/a> \"IMG_8996\"<\/a>Elders McAllister and DiRuscio got their food quickly and ate inside because elder McAllister has been getting too much sun. But elders Todd, Alvial and Liera had to wait forever – over 20 minutes – for their food.<\/p>\n

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Elder Oldroyd was somewhere in between and joined us outside. When the missing three finally got their food they joined the party.<\/p>\n

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Elders McAllister and DiRuscio finally joined us and by then elder McAllister had to sit in the sun. \u00c2\u00a0While we were waiting for our food, we met some pastors from a group of churches who were gathered to plan a conference up in Mafikeng some time soon. I spent some time talking to the Korean pastor – he is in the blue check shirt – and found that he and his family left Korea over 20 years ago because he felt he was called to preach the gospel in the Philippines and then Africa. It turns out he and his family lives here in Potch so I got his name and phone number and will call him sometime in the future and see if we can get together to talk about our experiences.<\/p>\n