District Meetings

We attended the district meetings in the St. Petersburg Zone.  The presentations focused on how to improve our missionary efforts to become the version 4.0 missionaries that President Cusick has challenged us to be.  One of the presentations was on avoiding time traps, so we can devote more time to missionary work.  The other presentation was on utilizing our spiritual gifts to make us more effective.  In one district, the district leader had asked the missionaries to read their patriarchal blessings before coming, and we talked about those.

In the other district, each missionary anonymously wrote the characteristic or gift that he/she admired in other missionaries.  They circulated one page for each missionary, and we wrote what we admired about each on their sheet.  The district leader then read the characteristics on a sheet, and we were to guess which missionary that was.  The group was able to identify most of us.

Following the district meetings, we drove to Hudson Ward again for a baptismal interview.  I was curious, so I looked on a map, and I believe that Hudson is the northernmost ward in our mission.  So it made for a long day by the time we returned to Sarasota.

Here is the list of characteristics/gifts that the missionaries ascribed to me.  Since Renee was sitting next to me, I know who wrote "no guile."  :-)

And here are Renee's attributes: