Zone Conference Time

We love Zone Conference - and just to make June the best month ever - we held TWO Zone Conferences. One at the Bacoor Stake building, and one at the Dasmariñas Stake. The theme of the conference was "Being A Disciple Of Jesus Christ." Here is the outline:

It was a great zone conference and all missionaries were spiritually and physically fed. Here are the pictures of both conferences.

BACOOR STAKE CENTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
A good-bye tablecloth for Elder and Sister Rigby

 

 

 

DASMARIÑAS STAKE CENTER 
 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Elder Samante, Elder Jenkins, Sister Patolo, Elder Utai.

 The Elder on the left played the piano, and the other three sang. It was beautiful - but of course it was my favorite song!

Elder Samante is a concert pianist and all four of them have amazing voices. We are so blessed to have these talented missionaries in our mission!

 

The Strippling Warriors

I made a visual for Zone Conference that went along with my talk on Covenants. It was made possible by a very happy Tarpaulin dealer who received a huge order of 20 - 3'x4' tarpaulins. After all 20 were printed, I started the process of sewing them together. Yes, it is possible to order the tarpaulin in longer sizes, but it would have been more expensive to do it that way. My wonderful sewing machine that I brought from America was a trooper! It stitched through the heavy vinyl like it was going through butter! By the time I reached the last two pieces to sew, it was incredibly heavy, so President had to hold the tarpaulin while I guided it through the machine. Easy Peasy!

 The vinyl "2000 warriors" filled one of the mission home bedrooms where I was sewing them together.

All finished and ready to attach to dowels.

 We had expert help from the Petersen's as we nailed the tarpaulin to the wooden dowels. Thank you Elder and Sister Petersen!

 Here is the finished product being used at the end of my talk. Everyone looks VERY unimpressed with my dramatic conclusion. This picture makes me laugh because they all look bored to death.

"Wake Up. Can you hear the drum roll? This is Sister Tye's big moment!"

Someday these 2000 Strippling Warriors are going to really impress a whole classroom of Primary children!

June MLC

Is it already June?

Another month has quickly passed and we are back at MLC again. The monthly theme for June is "I can be an instrument in the Lord's hands as I HOLD TO THE ROD." As I introduced the theme, I used the following pictures that were made for President Tye when he served as a missionary here 40 years ago. These were painted with watercolor by a young man who is not a member. 

 

They really are beautifully done. It was 1975 when the artist did these, and it shows in the way the Filipino's are dressed in the last picture. I love it!

President Tye took a couple of hours to train the mission leaders on chapter 13 of Preach My Gospel. It was centered on a working relationship between ward members, ward leadership, and the missionaries. We also had some wonderful lessons taught by the Assistants (Elder Rindlisbacher and Elder Collins), the ZL's for Cavite (Elder Leaupepetele and Elder Roberts), and the Binan STL's (Sister Patolo and Sister Labarda). 

During mission interviews last week, I received a request for lasagna - seems like the American missionaries are missing Italian food and real cheese. I granted their wish. Last month it was taco salad, this month lasagna - I wonder what country we will honor in July? 

Enjoy the pictures of our June Mission Leadership Council.

 Elder Leaupepetele and Sister Patolo

Elder Collins, Elder Rindlisbacher, and Elder Anderson

 Elder Dennison, Elder Kalio (his birthday today), Sister Labarda

 Elder Leaupepetele and Elder Roberts teaching. 

 

Elder Dennison and Elder Roberts know how to make a banana split!

 

 Elders' Baniago, Kalio, McLaughlin