Zone Conference

Hey everyone!  A busy busy Sunday today.  It is 9:20pm and I am just getting a chance to sit down and write. So I am afraid it will be short.  

We had our Senior Missionary Zone Conference this last Thursday. We have it once a quarter and each time they ask the missionaries that are going home before the next conference to share their testimony with the group.  There were about 25 of us there and 13 are leaving before the next meeting, that was about half of us there. They asked us to take just a minute a piece because we had one of the Area Presidency there to speak to us also.  We have been lucky enough to serve with some pretty special people here and hate to see them go, but I guess we are going too so it's OK.

About the pictures.  We go for a walk once in a while in the neighborhood where the clinic is when we have some time.  There is a gate nearby that is usually closed, but the other day it was open and there were some people there.  We asked if we could walk through the gate and they said, "Sure".  It turns out it is a place where they grow all sorts of plants that are used in landscaping some of the public places here in the city, so a large nursery of sorts.  So, I took a few pictures there.  One of them is a wire frame of a dragon that can be used to grow some sort of plant in it and then be sculpted to that form.  I am sure you have seen them before.  There are a couple of deer frames at a home near Karen Campbell’s home in Providence.

The other picture is of the Clinic when we had two volunteer dentists with us last week.  A full house!  We had one of our patients stand on a chair and take several pictures of the group working.  We are in the closest chair to the camera.

We have a meeting this Wednesday morning with all the missionaries from the closest three missions in the city and the CCM and Senior missionaries.  Elder Cook is in town and will be speaking there.  Then Thursday thru Saturday Dad and I are taking off to a place called Semac Champey with the Oylers, our across the hall neighbors.  Hopefully next week I can send pictures of that place.

We gave a devotional today at the CCM on the Book of Mormon.  It has been good to spend more time in the Preach my Gospel book and preparing for these devotionals.  The Book of Mormon is a pretty amazing book, as we all know.  Without it there would be no Gathering of Israel, no restoration of the Gospel. There would be no Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  So I guess I wouldn't be here on a mission, to mention just a few things.  So I am very, very thankful we have the Book of Mormon and thankful for the impact it has made on my life.  Aren't we so blessed!

Make it a great week!   Love, MOM/Grammy