Zone Conference is huge.
Having it every six months hasn't taken the pressure off the President and assistants.
There is Leadership Training every two months and that is a two-three day meeting of all the leaders.
As Stan and I watch the President and his Wife work we are amazed at the work it takes to be a mission President and wife.
Just about a year ago they hit the ground running and they haven't stopped.
They haven't missed a beat.
They are on top of everything and I mean every little detail.
At their side are the trusted Assistants.
They work so hard anyone who aspires for that position has to have his head examined.
Then there is Elder and Sister James...
She is Presidents Secretary and he is financial clerk and over apartments and anything else the President and wife ask.
Now that there isn't an office missionary they pretty much with the assistants have taken up the slack.
Now that there isn't an office missionary they pretty much with the assistants have taken up the slack.
To watch the Lord work through the President and Sister Hall is beautiful.
I am so grateful for the privilege of working in this mission under their direction.
Tuesday on the way to Palm Bay for the Cocoa and Stuart Zone Conference.
These pictures do not capture the beauty of what we witnessed at sunrise that morning.
Good to see Elder Capps again.
Hamburgers- hotdogs-cold slaw potato and green salad and potato chips...
AND
Apple pie and ice cream.
they stand back and let the sisters and senior couples go first.
Getting them off your vehicle quickly is a must or the acid eats the paint.
Up North Wednesday we met at Lake Mary Chapel for the Leesburg Deland and Orlando Stakes
These elders are full bike... we picked them up on the way.
Elder Wood and Peterson Owens and Lybbert. (Lybbert had exchanged for Elder Hager who is Elder Owens normal companion)
Elder Spilsbury
It was heart warming to see this in the entrance of the Lake Mary Chapel.
It is another 'picnic'
Thursday Wetherbee Chapel and the Orlando South Hunters Creek and La Zona Zones
Sister Homer replenishing the washer fluid.
A necessary evil during love bug season.
Elder Dyer helping sister Messer...
The Elders are so good to help and support the sisters.
Elder Jensen and his brand new suit....
I couldn't do it because we had to get ready for the Zone Conference in Wetherbee.
that night Sister Soto a member of our ward took heart and hemmed them for him.
Elder Campbell...
What a guy.
he never complained he just helped and served the missionaries.
They had real wheat spouted on each table.
Sister Mills in the white pants is the RS president and loved by EVERYONE.
Sister Stanley on the right is a true soldier working for the missionary effort.
I could write a book about her and her husbands service.
Elder Dyer and Lewis after the Wetherbee conference.
Once again four new cars...
which means Stan pulls four others from the missionaries to be sold.
Saturday about noon I went to Publix
This Osprey has built a nest on the lights and is feeding her young.
Fascinating to watch.
When we got to Publlix the sky was clear.
Just an hour or so later we had a down pour.
Stan came in looking like a drown rat...
Elder Jensen and Whitworth joined us for dinner Saturday night.
We feed their tummies they feed our spirits.
We took the missionaries home then went to the Osceola School of the Arts and enjoyed a show
by the Young Ambassadors from BYU.
Colon Bonner below is part of that group.
He was our own Elder Bonner a few months ago.
The show was great and Colon Bonner did not disappoint.
Each week I try to make up a soup for the missionaries.
I take some to the office Monday so the assistants can eat.
They are so busy and have to find time to go out and eat.
This batch is made from the roast gravy and veggies from the dinner earlier with the missionaries.
Most of the time I get the Bear Creek mix and add meat and a few things.
Anything after we feed the assistants we take to missionaries apartments to feed them.
The black berries that are growing wild in our honeysuckle hedge are on and yummy.
It has been so dry in Florida.
Everywhere we went in the mission this week the vegetation looked very sad if not dead.
The skies looked like this several days as it tried to rain.
We had sprinkles through the week.
Saturday we got an actual storm from the gulf which was very refreshing.
We should be having 3-4 cloud bursts a week in the afternoons through the summer.
Tuesday evening Sunset.
Anything after we feed the assistants we take to missionaries apartments to feed them.
The black berries that are growing wild in our honeysuckle hedge are on and yummy.
It has been so dry in Florida.
Everywhere we went in the mission this week the vegetation looked very sad if not dead.
The skies looked like this several days as it tried to rain.
We had sprinkles through the week.
Saturday we got an actual storm from the gulf which was very refreshing.
We should be having 3-4 cloud bursts a week in the afternoons through the summer.
Tuesday evening Sunset.
It is not the design of heaven that we be rescued from all difficult situations.
Rather, it is the Lord's will that we learn to handle them.
-Joseph Fielding McConkie-
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