This was our second week of INTERVIEWS!
INTERVIEWS...what are interviews in a mission? Well, the purpose of "Interviews" is actually for each missionary to have the opportunity for a personal interview with their mission president. Anything else we do is secondary.
For one, Elder Rodgers comes to inspect all the vehicles in the mission, including bicycles. Each companionship cleans their cars and reports to Elder Rodgers.
They earn CLEAN CAR AWARDS which makes it a lot of fun.
Sister Rodgers comes when possible to talk about REFERRALS and check in with the missionaries to offer help on how they follow up.
THANKS ELDER & SISTER RODGERS FOR ALL YOU DO!
Our theme for the day was ORDER IN ALL THINGS.
My first training of the day was to discuss an article by called "The Unwritten Order of Things" by Boyd J Packer from a devotional (Look it up!)
We talked about amazing things that are WRITTEN ORDER and amazing things that we pick up on just by observing our leaders, or the UNWRITTEN ORDER like what we wear to sacrament meetings, where authorities sit, and for us, things that are culture in the mission that we have learned from our leaders. Great discussion!
Our great zone leaders, Elders Wade and Wainwright led a wonderful discussion on how to conduct EXCHANGE WRAP-UPS. What is that you say? This is when missionaries trade companions for 24 hours to learn from each other. What they do before they return to their areas is a "wrap up." If they really use that time, really talk and share and set goals, it can be very productive!
But for some REAL FUN, we played for the third year in a row, the CLEANING RELAY RACE!
I create a course of cleaning games that Junior and Senior companions compete against each other to see which team can complete the course first.
Put on the yellow gloves...
...Sweep up the Cheerios into the box
...shoot down Mr Clean with the spray bottle
...toss the scrubbie with the plunger
...wash the plate
...golf three scrubbies into a basket
...with a toilet brush no less!
...hit 4 toilet rolls into the toilet seat hoop
...and push the bar of soap back to the start line for the next contestant!!
CLEAN SWEP FOR THE PHOENIX NORTH ZONE!!!
We wished Elder Goldsberry a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY since his birthday was the very next day!
Each companionship taught how to plan with purpose that part of the day. It led to some good discussion!
And every once in a while I would pop up front and become someone who the missionaries could interact with as they went about their day.
It was a lot of fun! I am sure I terrified them, but THEY ALL DID GREAT!
My last activity was to discuss TALKING WITH EVERYONE which I had already been demonstrating for them throughout the last presentation.
Sister Carter was able to share a departing testimony for her zone...her days in the APM are counting down!
I wish we could all have the sense of urgency that departing missionaries feel...there is so much good we can do no matter how much time we have as FULLTIME MISSIONARIES...and so much more we can do as EVERYDAY MISSIONARIES!
Here is my advice to all of you this week..."If you want to baptize a few people, talk with a few people...if you want to baptize a lot of people, talk with a lot of people...if you want to baptize everyone, talk with everyone!"
May we ALL talk with more people about what is really important to us! Family, our Savior and his Gospel! Have a great week! Sister Taylor
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