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| Elder Russell Maxwell Trying to Break MTC Cereal Eating Record |
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| Carrie Elizabeth on the job at MTC Mailroom |
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| Elder M. Russell Ballard with two new mission presidents Bradley Brower (left) and Len Greer (riight) both who served in CTM June 2010 |
Zone conference was great. I really like my zone and everything and it was cool getting to know President Brower a little more along with his wife. He has a pretty energetic personality so it's kind of cool to see him in action. According to Elder Blaisdell, he's a lot different from the previous mission president, President Middleton. President Middleton had a more reserved kind of a personality. But I guess there's kind of a cool story I can tell you about him, or about a challenge he gave us. He called it the 10/10/10: the first 10 means talking to someone within the first ten minutes that you leave the door, the next 10 means talk to 10 people outside or your planned finding activities for the day, and the last 10 means present the Book of Mormon to ten people throughout the day. It's pretty cool seeing how well it works and how the Lord truly does bless missionaries as they try to carry out this challenge/goal. Whenever we walk outside onto our not-very-busy street, there's always one person just walking around or hanging out in their front yard that we can talk to. They don't usually ever listen to what we say, but at least we are able to get the goal in for the day and have the Spirit with us that much more. Usually after we walk by that person we don't see anyone else out on the street for another half hour or so because there's not usually people out that early in the morning. Pretty cool seeing the Lord's hand at work like that every day.
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| President and Sister Bradley James and Tamara Ballard Brower |
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| New Zealand MTC |
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| Sister Flora Bruno on her trusty bike |
So... I lost my companion. He left last night for Resistencia. So... I lost my hijo/newbie. It kind of makes me sad. To explain a little bit, he went to Resistencia because they called him to be the new Secretary of Materials. I´ve got a little bit of pride in that, because well, he´s the youngest elder ever to go to the office. :) :) But, it also means that I will be with a mini-missionary for the next two weeks until the transfer ends. It also means that without a doubt I will be in this area until the end of August. For those who are unfamiliar with the idea of a mini-missionary, it's a member that they assign to go and be with the missionary for a certain time period when there is a shortage of elders. The only good thing is that I know he is a member from my first area.I really enjoy learning new missionary terms. I did a post last year on Missionary Lingo.
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| Architectural Rendition Expansion Philippines MTC |
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| Connie Denton |
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| Elder Garrett Jon Roberds McClintock Ukraine Dnepropetrovsk Mission |
Big news. The Sydney south is no longer going to be a mission as of July 1st. The North and South are combining into one like the olden days! Pres. Simmons and will still be president. Pray for him and Sister simmons. They are going from about 100 missionaries to look after to 200. The south area takes about 8 hours to drive from top to bottom and will now take them 24. WOW.
They are combining it for cost reasons and for effectiveness reasons.There are less missionaries going out so they are sending more missionaries to places like South America where the people are really ready for the gospel and pulling out of areas that are drying up. It cost 1.2 million a year to keep the south open, apparently the $10,000 I earned for my mission only covers 2/5 of what it costs to keep me here.
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| Elder and Sister D. Todd Christofferson with President and Sister Dowdle |
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| Elder Mackay-Elder Lehr-Elder Evans (Las Vegas Elders serving in Cape Coast Mission) |
