At the beginning of each transfer, the zone leaders, district leaders and visitors center trainers gather for a leadership meeting. The assistants and President Matsumori do some training. The newly called zone leaders and district leaders are trained on their responsibilities.
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| President Matsumori has the missionaries try some paper folding with their eyes closed. (I think that's Elder Lee who is peeking.) |
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| The rest of the leaders fold with closed eyes as well. |
The main purpose, however, is for the leaders to set goals for the upcoming transfer. There are six zones and only four pictures - the other two zones were deep in discussion by the time I got to their rooms. So I let them continue doing their work. Sorry...moms.
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| Left to right: Elder Kerby, Elder Kiel, Elder Greiner, Elder Pearson, Elder Lee and Sister Hazen. |
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| Left to right: Elder Brown, Elder Croft, Elder Danner, Elder Anderson, Elder Opeda and Sister DeAgostini. |
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| Left to right: Elder Martin, Elder Shurtleff, Elder Webb, Elder Nowlin, Sister Gordon, Sister Marcy. |
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| Left to right: Elder Lambert, Elder Fawcett, Elder Hurd, Elder Stallings, Elder Grant, Elder Kennedy, Elder Pierucci. |
At this meeting, like other gatherings, packages are delivered so the zone leaders can take them to the missionaries in their area. However, unlike other gatherings, this one was just a few days before Christmas. So the zone leaders vehicles were loaded down like Santa's sleigh.
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| This is just three day's worth of packages delivered to the mission home. More packages were delivered at the Christmas conference on December 20th. And still other packages are still being delivered as the office receives them. |
