Utah Salt Lake City Mission - President and Sister Condie

  What a wonderful week! Wednesday through Saturday this past week was spent in a conference/seminar with all of the mission presidents and wives ( President Benson L and Sister Kerry L. Porter, Provo MTC; President Rick W. and Sister Angela Johnson, Utah Layton Mission; President Richard and Sister Betsey Holley, Utah Ogden Mission; President James E and Sister Jody Evanson, Utah Orem Mission; President Todd L. and Sister Rebecca Hendrickson, Utah Provo Mission; President Douglas D. and Sister Erin Holmes, Utah Salt Lake City Headquarters Mission; President Kendal A. and Sister Lesley Kotter, Utah Salt Lake City South Mission; President Russell M. and Sister Kay Lynn Larsen, Utah Salt Lake City Temple Square Mission; President Justin R and Sister Kristen Spencer, Utah Salt Lake City West Mission; and President Kevin D. and Sister Sonja Staples, Utah St. George Mission)  serving in the Utah Area as well as the Utah Area Presidency (Elder Kevin W. and Sister June Pearson, Area ...

Anne and I completed our second round of Zone conferences in Evanston, Wyoming on Friday the 16 th . At the beginning of each zone conference, we show a slideshow of pictures of outgoing and incoming missionaries for that six-week cycle (transfer cycle) as well as pictures of some of the persons who entered the waters of baptism that transfer cycle as well. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to include that here so I have simply included some of the pictures. Following the zone conference and interviews of the missionaries in that area, Anne and drove to Rock Springs, Wyoming to do more interviews and attend the Rock Springs' stake conference Saturday night and Sunday. Anne and I spoke in the Saturday night session, and we were able to have dinner with Elder José A. Teixeira and his wife beforehand. Elder Teixeira was assigned to fill in for Elder Kevin Pearson who was called away on another assignment. Elder Teixeira and his wife are lovely! The existing stake president was...

  This past week was filled with receiving and training new missionaries, and counseling and attending the temple with missionaries who completed their service and were returning home. This is easily the busiest week of our six-week cycle. It was wonderful being able to attend the temple with the outgoing missionaries. But the testimony meeting after the Wednesday night dinner with the departing missionaries is always the highlight of the cycle. One of the sister missionaries’ family came to pick her up and, again because it was such a small group (only three going home), we invited her family to join us for the testimony meeting. What a wonderful experience! Now it’s back to missionary interviews, Missionary Leadership Council and Zone Conferences. I came across the following in my personal studies this week: Chapter 32 of Alma in the Book of Mormon is a well-known chapter of scripture where the prophet Alma compares the word of God to a seed that brings forth precious fruit. He a...