Zone Conference

The perfect cinnamon roll

From 11-09

I learned the afternoon before zone conference that the sister who was in charge of the mid-morning snack for zone conference was sick.

Well, I wasn't going to let the elders starve to death as they sat through the all-day conference, so, all that afternoon I baked. I baked a whole lot of cinnamon rolls...enough for the whole zone conference of 64 persons.

I baked 8 loaves of pumpkin bread and chocolate banana bread.

And, I baked 6 dozen chocolate chip cookies. Well, enough of that!

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The cinnamon rolls looked awesome and were gone in a flash! They must have tasted as good as they looked!

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The zone conference was fabulous. We learned a lot and it was great to be together with all the missionaries we love so much.

Here's our zone. Elder Bullock jumped in the photo just before me and jumped right in front. So, where else could I plop but right by his side. My blouse was rain soaked because I was the one taking most of the pictures...and standing in the rain to do so!

Notice our mission president, President Gamiette, who is the one standing at the far right of the photo. He looks young enough to be one of the elders. He is about 40. The elders think he is like the energizer bunny because he can accomplish so much and never seems to run out of steam.

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I caught a few choice photos of President Gamiette telling how he fell in love with his wife.

For several years he had wondered and prayed about how he'd ever the right girl to marry. When he got home from his mission, he began to really search for her in earnest. He went out with every girl from his island in the Carribean, Guadaloupe. He knew he hadn't found her yet.

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Then one day, he learned of a beautiful returned missionary who was visiting his island and her uncle introduced them. He liked her immediately. She had all the qualities he was looking for.

He must have been describing how much he immediately loved being with her and how pretty she was as I snapped this photo.

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He asked her to marry him one week after they met. Wow! That was fast! Six weeks later they were married.

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The elders were enthralled hearing him tell of their courtship. Hopefully, we'll get to hear his wife's version one day, also!

Lunch arrived 2 hours late. It was a small dob of potato salad, some lentils, bbq'd chicken and rice.

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See the hungry elders eat.

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After lunch, our zone was responsible to provide the musical number. Here we all are singing "Scripture Power" as we slapped our Book of Mormons.

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Here's some of our favorite missionary friends with whom we've served...Elders Ence and Bryan.

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Elders Cotton and Weiderhold.

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Elders Lee and Ence.

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Elders Powers and Vance.

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Elders Toupou and Winzinreid (and Rosales in the back).

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Elders Chambers and Rosales (our zone leaders).

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Elders Clark and Carter

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And of course, Elders Jones and Lang. I can't believe you pulled that face, Elder Lang!

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And a shot of us in the kitchen!

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We stopped by the mission office before we left for home. Check out the board of all the new elders and those that just left for home.

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