BYRON & VERLYN MISSION

On Wednesday Oct 20th a Zone Conference was held in a Stake Center about 20 miles South of were we live.  It was almost to the SEA-TAC airport. There are 230 missionaries in the Washington Seattle Mission.  Three Zone Conferences will be held, today (1/3 of the missionaries + the only two Senior couple Missionaries serving in the Wards in the whole mission). Another Zone Conference tomorrow and again Friday. Elder Ringwood (General Authority Seventy) was presiding, accompanied by his wife.  All the missionaries had to be seated at 8:30am.  We sang songs until 9am when  Elder Ringwood, his wife and  President Larkin and his wife arrived. Sister Larkin talked on the importance of extensive planning. With out good planning, nothing will happen to reach our goal.  Sister Ringwood talked about the fact that being on a mission and doing the work as best as you can, is living the Law of Consecration 100%.  President Larkin talked about the importance of Saving the People and bring them to Christ. Elder Ringwood spoke about the Great Missionaries in the Book of Mormon.  The morning session ended at noon.  The local Stake served us all lunch.  The usual funeral potatoes, salads, pastas, rolls.  Guess what! no HAM! We were served all the fried chicken we wanted and gourmet Cookies for dessert.  The afternoon session started at 1pm.  Elder Ringwood asked about 5-8 missionaries, both Elders & Sisters to come up and bear their testimonies.  Then he opened up the meeting for questions we missionaries had.  The conference ended at 2:30pm. It was a very spiritual experience.  We will have these Zone Conferences every three months.  What a blessing to look forward to!!
The other Senior Missionaries are serving in a Ward like we are.  They Elder & Sister Hope from Dallas Texas.  They have been out for 11 months, only 7 months to go.  They are having great success, but it took about 3-5 months before the people had trust enough to allow them to teach.  Mom and I can hardly wait to begin teaching investigators.