We stayed overnight in Tampa to save ourselves 2+ hours of driving time. Since we were already in Tampa, we attended two zone training meetings during the day, the Brandon Zone and the Tampa Zone. The zone leaders for each of those zones had returned home, so the two remaining companion zone leaders worked together to develop training meetings for each of the zones.
The focus of the training meetings was on allowing your personality to come through in your teaching and contacting and creating unity with your companion. In each meeting, the zone leaders had set up an effective role play with a missionary whom they had appeared to get into a heated disagreement. The missionaries then discussed how that had much out the spirit from the meeting. I continue to be impressed with how effective the missionaries are in training each other.
The new missionaries arrived and we met them at the Mission Home for dinner. One of the missionaries who is from Mozambique and is just learning English, missed the flight from Atlanta to Tampa, so he arrived a bit later than the other 10. The other missionaries said they didn't realize he was not on the plane until it was preparing to depart.
This seems like a strong group of missionaries, 4 Sisters and 7 Elders. Perhaps they will be able to replace the leadership strength of those who just left.
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