MISSION TOUR DAY #1: Surprise/W. Maricopa/ Buckeye Goodyear

CLICK ON THIS LINE FOR ALL PHOTOS OF THIS EVENT!  LOTS OF INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS. 

 Once a year we have a general authority visit our mission specifically to see how we are doing as a mission and to teach, counsel and advise us.

This year we were blessed to have Elder Paul E Koelliker and his wife Ann, come spend the week with us.

They were wonderful!

 We started each day with a Zone Leader Council, then met in a general session with the 3 zones coming this day, and finished with a follow up Zone Leader Council to make plans on how to follow up with what we felt we needed to focus on in our mission.


Lunch time is always a blast for the missionaries to socialize and eat lots of good food provided by local wards.
Our Assistants had my camera while we ate with the Koellikers and office staff in another room...so there are lots of silly and wonderful photos by them for you!



We always thank the generous ward members that provide the lunch for us by singing to them.

 And we sing our mission fight song with gusto!

 We celebrate birthdays for the month.
HAPPY NOVEMBER BIRTHDAY to Elders Nieman, Castanos, Zeledon, Romrell, Finklea and Cabral along with one of our Sisters helping with lunch.

 Elder Cardoso sang the Portuguese Birthday song for us when we asked him to...it is super fun!

















We got to sing to Elder Foulk today as well.  He was serving with us for a couple weeks in preparation for putting in papers to serve a mission himself!  He will be wonderful! Thank you Elder Foulk!

Mission Photo of these three zones.  

GREAT DAY #1 OF MISSION TOUR WITH ELDER AND SISTER KOELLIKER!