DEER VALLEY INTERVIEWS Jan 2014

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The Deer Valley Zone was our first Zone to do INTERVIEWS with this January...thus, they were our GUINEA PIGS...in other words, we tried out everything on them to see what worked and what did not!
Interview Days is mainly when President Taylor meets with each missionary to check in and visit.  They love it and it is such a good accountability for them.

For me, it is a day full of instruction and games and being with people I love!  A lot of work, but oh, so worth it!

I started the day with a doctrinal discussion about the DOCTRINE OF CHRIST and the BOOK OF MORMON.  Two of my favorite things!
We are reading the Book of Mormon as a mission in 3 months.  We are underlining all the points of the Doctrine of Christ:
FAITH
REPENTANCE
BAPTISM/COVENANTS
GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST
ENDURING TO THE END
ATONEMENT.
If you want to join us, please do!  We are excited for what we are finding!
I also did a skills training on GATHERING INFORMATION...hence the missionaries pretending to be on the phone.  We really get into our role plays here!!!  But we do learn a lot!

 Each interview day, Elder Rodgers and Sister Rodgers join us at the start for CAR INPECTIONS and some instruction on bike and car safety.
The beloved CLEAN CAR AWARDS are handed out...

 ...along with CHOCOLATE from the Rodgers as a reward for the hard work that these missionaries put into their vehicles of any sort!

We love the Rodgers and they love the missionaries!!!

 My next lesson was our health presentation on EXERCISE...it is a New Year, and we want to be as fit as we can, right?
So...for my GAME TIME, I created the
MISSIONARY OLYMPICS!!!
We had three countries represented...

the TRUE NORTH ( yes, they are all from north of AZ)

 TIE-LAND  (very creative, I thought)

 and the beloved KINGDOM OF HEAVEN!


They marched into the stadium ready to compete!
Citius, Altius, Fortius (Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger")

We had seven events:

WINDS OF ADVERSITY was blowing up a balloon and using the air inside to blow labeled cups off the table...as many as you could in one minute.

  HOLD TO THE ROD was balancing chopsticks on the back of your hand and tossing them into the air and grabbing them with the same hand...trying to see how many you could successfully catch at one time!  They were amazing!

FIERY DARTS was throwing velcro balls at little targets on the board of Satans darts.

 ETERNAL PROGRESSION was stepping from one hoop to the next as quickly as you could move the hoop to the side and keep them going...as far as you could in one minute.

 The most funny to watch was the GADIANTON KNOCK-DOWN which involved, yes, womens pantyhose on the head with a tennis ball inside which was swung to knock over as many water bottles as you could in one minute...lets just say I wish I had videoed this, there were so many funny ways of trying to do it!  See the photos in the link above for a few more!

 We had two throwing events...


the BARGE BLAST (like a discus, but using paper Jaredite barges)



and the LIAHONA LAUNCH much like a shotput, but with a foam liahona.


GOOD TIMES!  We need to relax and have fun together!

 TEAM TRUE NORTH:
Sister Jones, Elder Silcock, Sister C Turner, Elders T Anderson, J Cook and Searle.

 TEAM TIE-LAND
Elders Boyce and Elliott
Sisters Wade, Hixson, Elders Ure and Weiler.

 TEAM KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Elders Bryson and Farnsworth
Elders Parkinson, Jeong, Severe, Sisters Barton and Brewer

We finished the day with a great teaching on ACCOUNTABILITY by the Zone Leaders, then with a lesson about how we use the Book of Mormon to arm us with the armor we need to get through adversity in our lives and the lives of those we teach.  The obedience is like the glue that plugs up any chinks in the armor...so there are no weak spots for Satan to get through.

I love the Book of Mormon.  I challenge you to read with purpose, to set goals for this New Year on how you can make it more a part of your life and your study.
As Elder Nelson taught...we must hold aloft hte shield of faith with one hand and hold to the rod with the other..."IT TAKES BOTH HANDS."  Love, Sister Cheryl Taylor