LEADERSHIP/Missionary Dept. Visitors- March 2012

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President Taylor and I had the privilege of having visitors from the Missionary Department to come check on our mission to see how we were doing and to help with a couple training meetings this week. It was so much fun!

Tracy Watson is director of proselyting for the Church's Missionary Department. He is really dynamic and, as you can see, made all our missionaries smile.

We were able to invite not only the zone and district leaders, but many of our trainers/potential trainers, including Sister Missionaries.





We really focused on learning the Doctrine of Christ...we want to know it so well that it is natural and instinctive to speak of it. We want it to be WOVEN into everything we say and do.

We also had our good friend Lane Steinagel, who also works in the Missionary Department and is a manager of training at the Provo MTC. He is a former Missionary President whom we visited while on his mission in Ukraine the August before our calling to serve. It was great to be with him and have the tables turned - him visiting us on our mission. He is a great teacher!

Our Temple Missionaries. The Winchells, joined us for lunch and then took all our missionaries on a brief tour of the trailer near the temple site that can be used to bring investigators to visit! We love them so much!

Our wonderful office sisters all came to serve up the luncheon for me. It is one thing to cook and buy all that food...it is entirely another one to try to serve over 80 people! They are help sent from above!

We had a wonderful time over at the temple site and could not have asked for a more beautiful day!

The temple is starting to come up. The basement is about done and it will start to have walls showing that are above ground very soon!

We spent the rest of the afternoon being taught and practice teaching the principles of the Gospel and how to invite others to come unto Christ.

We talked about the great power we have to bless lives through prayer and how the Christian world really embraces the idea of prayer in general. This is not only a part of our lives, but natural for many!

We had our guests sign our Mission Flag. It was wonderful to have them here to guide and direct us and our missionaries! We are still learning so much and need all the help we can get. We feel inspired and ready to continue in this great work! We have THE BEST missionaries that are out there! Their time is NOW!

We loved that Braden had an early out day and came to join us over at the building near the temple site. He took time to greet and meet many of his missionary friends! We are so blessed to have him here with us!

IT WAS A GREAT WEEK! The Doctrine of Christ is the only way back to our Father's presence. May we exercise FAITH enough in the ATONEMENT to REPENT, continue to commit ourselves to follow Jesus Christ through BAPTISM and subsequent ORDINANCES, utilize the healing, cleansing and protecting power of the HOLY GHOST as we cheerfully ENDURE TO THE END!