The Great Kentucky Louisville Mission - 2: Lexington and Lexington North Zone Conference

This post has pretty much the same information as the previous three, but with different people and their pictures. If you read the article about the Evansville Zone Conference, the Louisville Central, Louisville West, and Crestwood Zone Conference, and the New Albany Zone Conference, you can just skip to the photos...

The quarterly Zone Conferences are occasions that we as the Mission President and his wife, look forward to, as opportunities to see all of our missionaries and give them training and encouragement in their missionary responsibilities. The missionaries look forward to them, too, as a chance to receive instruction and counsel, and be built up and energized for the Work. Its also a great way to see the other missionaries and hear what is going on in other parts of the mission.

Zone Conference this time, as usual, took most of the day, starting with an Opening Song and Prayer, standing Recitals (saying the Missionary Purpose and Doctrine and Covenants Chapter 4 from memory) and a scriptural thought and message. They were conducted by the Assistants to the President with President Woodbury presiding. In each, there was a message and talk by a Stake President or one of the Counselors in the MIssion Presidency and a talk on a Christ-like attribute, this time, diligence, by Sister Woodbury. Instruction on driving safety and car maintenance was given by Elder Lewis, who is in charge of Mission vehicles, and President Woodbury showed showed a number of short vignettes on DVD about safe driving, After a musical number, President Woodbury took over and did "Tune-Ups', meaning talking about various ideas, goals, problems, and target areas for the mission. Sister Woodbury gave awards of cleaning products and her homemade chocolate chip cookies to those who won the Cleanliness Survey regarding the present condition of their apartments, and also the winners of the Diligence Survey, regarding, what else(?), their diligence as missionaries.

Lunch was served to us by wonderful local Relief Society Sisters and others in the cultural hall,

Elder Broomhead, Elder ?, Elder J. Wood, Elder Forsgren,

Elder Lytle, Elder Bowman, Elder Jorgensen, Elder Baker, Elders....?, Elder Evans

Elder Schleske, Elder Trease, Elder Wharton, Elder S. Tolman,

Elder Broomhead, Elder Baker, Elder Granados, Elder Funk

Elder S. Tolman, Elder Bowman, Elder J. Wood, Elder Murphy,

Elder Rueda, Elder Fisher, Elder Baker, Elder Granados

and concluded with the traditional singing of the GKLM version of "Called to Serve" as a thank-you for their kindness.

President Woodbury, Elder Price, Elder Broomhead, Sister Mikami, Sister Clemons, Elder Raney, Sister Goodman, Sister Edgerton, Sister Beukers, Sister Walker, Elder Granados, Elder Bowman, Elder Gaastra, Elder Beukers, Elder Beagley, Elder Quick, Elder Estrada, Elder C. Johnson, Elder Winn, Elder Wilson

Elder Beukers, Elder Schofield, Elder C. Johnson, Elder WInn, Elder Wilson, Elder Bjorklund, Elder Murphy, Elder Clawson, Elder DeGraw, and Elder Clark

Elder Schleske, Elder Baker, Elder Stevenson, President Woodbury, Elder J. Wood, Elder Broomhead

President Woodbury, Elder J. Wood, Elder Bromhead, Elder Ahern, Sister Mikami, SIster Clemons, Elder Raney, Sister Goodman, Sister Edgerton, Elder Wharton, Elder Evans, Elder Estrada, SIster Beukers, Sister Walker

Elder C. Johnson, Sister Westover, Elder Winn, Elder Beagley, Elder Wilson, Elser Calwson, Elder Murphy, Elder ?, Elder Clark, Elder Young, Elder Peterson, President Rennick

Sister Clemons, President Woodbury, Elder Baker, Elder Wharton, Elder DeYoung, Elder Call, Elder s ....?, Elder Granados, backs of Sister Gardner and Sister Velasquez

Then it was back to the conference.

With Elder Beagley at the piano, Sister Woodbury did a session of singing, introducing the medley of songs she put together and had arranged for the mission. It consisted of "The Valiant Song," "I Hope They Call Me on a Mission," "We'll Bring the World His Truth" (Armies of Helaman), parts of "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go," and ending in "Called to Serve." In the last verse of the latter, half of the missionaries simultaneously sing "The Valiant Song" which has the same chord progression. It worked fabulously, concluding with a big reprise of "God our strength will be, press forward ever called...to...serve our...King!" Too bad we didn't have an audience to hear us - we sounded awesome!

Elder Beagley hamming it up on the piano -

he really is amazing!

Following the music, President Woodbury once again took over to do training on The Doctrine of Christ. Everyone then broke up into smaller groups in various rooms in the building, to do practicing and role-plays, overseen by President Woodbury and the two Assistants, Elder Johnson and Elder Winn.

Role-play and practice

Elder Beukers, Elder Migliori, Elder Ahern and Elder Gaastra

Elder J. Anderson, Elder Beagley, Elder Bjorklund, and Elder Murphy

Elder Bjorklund, Elder Murphy,

Elder J. Anderson, Elder Beagley, with Elder C. Johnson observing

Elder Bjorklund and Elder Murphy

Elder Granados and Elder Funk talking to President Woodbury

The Zone Leaders had time with their Zones to do instruction and Accountabilites,

Lexington North Zone Leaders in Break-out Session

Elder Call and Elder DeYoung

Elder Fisher, Elder S. Tolman Elder Winn, Sister Beukers, Sister Walker,

Sister Veleasquez, Sister Gardner, Elder Jolley, Elder Stevenson,

Elder Broomhead, Elder J. Wood, Elder Lytle

Elder Jolley, Elder Stevenson, Elder Broomhead, Elder J. Wood,

Elder Lytle, Elder Jorgensen, Elder Trease, Elder Wharton, Elder Price,

Elder Baker, Elder Schleske, Elder Raney, Elder Schofield, Elder Evans, Elder Wilson

Elder Fisher, Elder S. Tolman, Elder Winn, Sister Beukers, Sister Walker,

Elder Trease, Elder Wharton, Elder Price

Back: Elder Jolley, Elder Stevenson, Elder Broomhead, Elder Lytle

Front: Elder Price, Elder Rueda, Elder Baker, Elder Schleske,

Elder Raney, Elder Schofield, Elder Evans, Elder Wilson

Lexington Zone Leaders in Break-out Session

Elder Young and Elder Clark

Left row: Sister Edgerton, Elder and Sister Young

Middle row:Elder Peterson, Elder Miner, Elder Gaastra, Elder Ahern, Elder Estrada, Elder Kowallis

Front row: Elder Quick, Elder Schaffer, Elder J Anderson, Elder Beagley, Elder Forsgren, Elder Bowman, Elder Beukers, Elder Migliori, Elder Bjorklund?, Elder Clawson, Elder Murphy

with Elder Young at the chalkboard

Front row: Elder Quick, Elder Schaffer, Elder J. Anderson, Elder Beagley, Elder Bowman, Elder Forsgren, Elder J Tolman, Elder Migliori, Elder DeGraw?, Elder Clawson, and Elder Murphy

Second row: Elder Peterson, Elder Miner, Elder Estrada, Elder Bjorklund, and Elder Kowallis

with Elder Clark in front

Third row: Elder and Sister Young, Sister Edgerton, Sister Goodman, Sister Mikami, and Sister Clemons

Accountabilities

Elder J. Wood and Elder Broomhead

Elder Raney and Elder Price

Elder Rueda and Elder Wilson

then everyone returned to the main group for Farewell Testimonies by the missionaries who were going to be ending their mission before the next Zone Conference.

After concluding remarks by President Woodbury, a closing song, and prayer, the conference was officially over. Still, everyone met back in the gym for Zone and small group photos, socializing, and Sister Woodbury's cookies.

LEXINGTON NORTH ZONE

Back row:Elder C. Johnson, Elder Winn, Elder Funk, Elder Stevenson, Elder Jolley, Elder Jorgensen, Elder Lytle, Elder Call, Elder Raney, Elder J. Wood, Elder Schofield, Elder Price, Elder Trease

Front row: Elder Rueda, Elder Fisher, Elder Granados, Elder S. Tolman Elder Baker, Elder Schleske, Hermana Velasquez, Hermana Gardner, Sister Walker, Sister Beukers, Elder Broomhead, Elder Schofield, Elder Evans, Elder DeYoung, and Elder Wharton

LEXINGTON ZONE

Back row: Elder C. Johnson, Elder Winn, Elder Kowallis, Elder Quick, Elder Miner, Elder Anderson, Elder Peterson, Elder Gaastra, Elder Beukers Elder Forsgren, Elder Beagley

Front row: Elder Estrada, Elder Murphy, Elder Bjorklund, Elder Clawson, Elder DeGraw, Elder Migliori, Elder Ahern, Sister Mikami, Sister Clemons, Sister Edgerton, Sister Goodman, Sister and Elder Young

Elder Bowman