New Albany and Crestwood Zones Conference - August 20th

Zone Conferences are always a great time to be able to see every zone and how they are functioning, provide counsel and training, and move onward and forward, as the song "Called to Serve" says. This time around it wasn't as if we hadn't seen each other for a long time. After all, we had had Transfers, New Missionary Special Training Conferences, a visit and meeting with Elder Kopischke of the Seventy, and a Mission Tour and conferences with Elder Nash, likewise of the Seventy. Nevertheless, President Woodbury felt like the mission as a whole still needed the Zones to meet for Tune-Ups and three rotating training and practice sessions, aka role-playing. 

NEW ALBANY ZONE
Top: Elder Spaulding, Elder Crook, Elder Clarke, Elder Magleby, Elder Anderson, Elder Quick, Elder Fackrell, Elder Dansie, Elder Butterfield, Elder Edwards, Elder Miller, Elder Schroeder
Middle: Sister Durfee, Sister Logan, Hermana Davis, Hermana Adams, Sister Bushman, Sister Kankamp, Sister Luke, Sister Woodbury, President Woodbury, Sister Lawter, Sister Bayles, Sister Baldwin, SIster Kerr, SIster Smith, Sister Murphy, Sister Whiting
Front: Elder Carter, Elder Hansen, Elder Hildebrandt, Elder Van Beekum, Elder Fry, Elder Berube, Elder Behling, Elder  Adams, Sister Trimming, Elder Trimming

CRESTWOOD ZONE
Top: Elder Anderson, Elder Carter, Elder Pritchett, Elder Pyper, Elder Meisel, Elder Quick, Elder Brook, Elder Allen, Elder Ott, Elder Denton, Elder Gerard, Elder Manzano
Middle: Hermana Binks, Hermana Messerly, HErmana Kearsley, Hermana Arreola, Sister Munk, Sister Woodbury, President Woodbury, Sister Ellsworth, SIster Brooks, Sister Myler, Sister Pisciotta, Sister Bailey
Bottom: Elder Buck, Sister Buck, Elder Cd Johnson, Elder Tuttle, Elder Earl, Elder Rollins, Elder T. Johnson, Elder Kaegi, Sister Bolliger, Elder Bolliger

Elder Behling and Elder Adams during one of the activities
during training.

        The three break-outs were conducted respectively by President Woodbury, the Assistants to the President, Elder Quick and Elder Anderson, and the Zone Leaders.  In addition there were the usual Recitals, Contacting and Conversion stories, a cleanliness workshop and singing of the Missionary Medley by Sister Woodbury, and Auto Safety and general Tune-Ups by President Woodbury. The missionaries who are going home before the next Zone Conferences had the opportunity to bear their testimonies, and of course, we all sang "Called to Serve" to thank the wonderful Relief Society ladies who provided lunch. 

Our wonderful Relief Society ladies

       And after it was all over, we gathered in the gym for my chocolate chip cookies, copies of the pictures I had taken since the last Zone Conference, and copies of the Trumpet newsletter, as well as lots of socializing.

       I can hear you saying, "But where are the other pictures, Sister Woodbury?" And the answer is, "I am hanging my head in shame, but I didn't take any other ones. By the time I finished handing out the photos, Trumpets, and cookies, most everyone was gone!" Next time, I promise...