Zone Conference Vitoria/Bilbao (March 9, 2018)

We enjoyed a leadership meeting with our zone leaders, sister training leaders, and district leaders to begin the day. Elder Duersch and Elder Bristol led a discussion about the responsabilities of the varied leadership of the mission. They're putting together a training booklet, so everyone gave input. The final booklets will be handed out at Concilio. I gave the first presentation, Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice. Elder Hunsaker and Elder Barton, the zone leaders of Vitoria, taught us about effective, inspired questions, and Hermana Muñoz and Barlow taught us about Companionship Inventory. Following these presentations, Hermana Applegate taught us "Lecciones en Español." Elder Loveland taught a teaching trick, and President ended the morning session by teaching on the topic Why Do I Need to Be Baptized Again. The missionaries also participed in a práctica (practice session) on explaining the importance of being baptized correctly.






For lunch, we enjoyed pizza, salad, and ice cream for dessert.







The missionaries during lunch then have "volver e informar." This is where they return and report on the number of baptisms they had the last month and their new baptismal goal for the next month.

For the afternoon session, we began with our scriptural memorization challenge and a musical number. Elders Duersch and Bristol, the assistants, gave a presentation called "Tempest Tossed" (an analogy about our mission song, Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy, and how we need to be consecrated missionaries and a light to the world). President Dayton's afternoon teaching was titled "What Manner of Men Ought Ye To Be." We concluded with a video of our missionaries opening their mission calls, and then we enjoyed a very spiritual testimony meeting.

This is Vivi! She has not taken off her chapa since she got it on Sunday. She wears it to school and when she is sleeping...she is adorable, and so excited to serve a mission someday!