DEER VALLEY/GLENDALE N. INTERVIEWS 7/13

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We finished up three weeks of Interviews today.
I think we saved the largest zone for last.

I love that when we get there, our missionaries are hard at work getting their cars in tip-top shape for inspections.  I especially love to see Sisters working on cars.  They do an amazing job!

 The purpose for Interviews is for President Taylor to meet one on one with each missionary to see how they are doing, to offer advice and encouragement and support.  Everything else that we do is secondary.

Zone Leaders and myself have the opportunity to train and lead discussions during this 5 hour conference time.  Elders Kamissoko and Wardle did a great job!  This may be a really large zone, but it is so full of love and real desire to work hard!

 Next I took all the missionaries in the gym for an activity.  This is a longstanding tradition with me.  I am usually teaching a life skill of some sort during the game, and today it was of a different nature, but just as important.

Through a series of questions, we all opened up and shared some of the thoughts of our hearts, tossing around a ball of string as we answered...

 ...and became inseparably connected one to another.  It was really fun.


Elder Kellett had to keep diving under the web we created just to help get the ball of string where it needed to be.

 After we literally NET-WORKED for a long time, we had something we could work with.  We used our net to hold aloft a beach ball.  This was the fun and active part of the game.

 They got some serious height to pitch it towards the ceiling!

After this, Elder Rodgers did his vehicle safety instruction, bike safety instruction and gave out his famous CLEAN CAR AWARDS!  The missionaries really like this!  They work so hard to keep their vehicles clean.

 The elders who share a car between two companionships got the highest score...having 4 to clean makes a difference!  Good job Elders!

 We celebrated all JULY BIRTHDAYS today as well.

HAPPY JULY BIRTHDAY TO:

Elder Boyce
Elder Leonhardt
Elder Bartleson

 We had a working lunch.  As we ate, we watched the film "The 5000 Days Project: Two Brothers"  It was so good!

I have seen this about 12 times now and still get emotional.  It is a film that especially for someone with a missionary or if you ARE a missionary, you will relate to.  It is rather a miracle to look inside the lives of two brothers and see the change they experience as they grow up.

The Zone Leaders ended the day with a great skills training on obedience and how to teach this to investigators as we strive to also implement it into our companionships.
What these young missionaries teach IS TRUE.  I invite you to go to Mormon.org to see for yourself what we believe if you are not yet a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
It is simply Christ's organized Church restored with the power of His priesthood again upon the earth.

Normal people living extraordinary lives because of the influence of the Holy Ghost and the power of Ordinances and the Atonement in our lives!