New Missionaries

One June 13th we welcomed eleven new elders to the mission. We greeted them at the airport, went to the mission home for breakfast and some orientation. We then traveled to the mission office for lunch and more orientation. Later in the afternoon they paired up with missionaires serving in the Las Vegas area. They had the opportunity to teach that evening and stay in missionary apartments. The next morning they were given the assignments to their new areas and met their new companions.

We are always excited for new missionaries to come....they are happy, excited, apprehensive, tired, hungry, ready to hit the ground running and full of anticipation as to who they will be serving with and where they will be serving




Elder Markle

 

Elder Alexander

Elder Larson

 Elder Weeks

 Elder Alford

 Elder Mouser

 Elder Harding

Elder Strong

Elder Bell

 Elder Stevens

 Elder Lee

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P-Day Hiking with Sisters

Last week on P-Day we gathered the Sisters serving in the south area of the mission and went hiking up Ice Box Canyon in  Red Rock Canyon.  It was a fun day.  It started out being a cold windy morning but ended up being a perfect day for a hike.  The only thing that would have made it more perfect is if we could have had the Sisters from the north area with us.

Sisters Spencer, Leilua,Dixon,Clevenger, Sprouse, Walker, Wright, Elder Wright



Sisters Black, Clevenger, Walker, Sprouse,Dixon, Leilua,Wright, Spencer




Thanks Elder Wright...a fun time was had by all!



Welcome Elder and Sister Bradshaw

We welcome Elder and Sister Bradshaw to our mission office staff.  The Bradshaws are coming from Saratoga Springs, Utah.  Sister Bradshw will be taking over Sister Wright's responsibilites and Elder Bradshasw will be taking over Elder Wright's responsibilites.  We are excited to have them here and welcome them to the the Nevada Las Vegas West Mission.....the best mission in the church!

June Zone Leader Council - North and South

As missioaries go home, changes take place in leadership. Elder Hill went home a few weeks ago and Elder Schlieffarth was called to serve as the new Assistant to the President. We appreciated all that Elder Hill did and we welcome Elder Schlieffarth on board. We also welcome some new Zone Leaders, some new District leaders and some new trainers who have been asked to serve. We appreciate all who have been serving in these assignments and welcome those who have recently been asked to serve.

Zone Leader Councils



North

Elders Stevens, Rice, Kiaha, Pearson, Schleiffarth, Liddiard, Irwin, Matekel, Tapusoa, Stucki

 


South

Elders Williams, Rice, Pomee, Schlieffarth, Spencer, Josephson, Towns, Hensley, Kamalamalama, Valez, Bush, Byers

 

Elders Rice, Hill, Schlieffarth

May 2011 Zone Conferences

Zone Conferences are held quarterly. There are nine zones in the mission. Four in the north area -- Reno, Reno North, Fallon and Carson City. There are five in the south area -- Tulle Springs, Lone Mountain, Red Rock, Las Vegas and South.



Tule Springs Zone

 


Lone Mountain Zone





Redrock Zone

 

South Zone



Las Vegas Zone



Carson City Zone




Fallon Zone





Reno Zone



Reno North Zone





Senior Missionaries

Senior Missionaries

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Elders Josephson, Petersen, Miller and Constantino singing a special musical number
at South Zone Conference

Elders Tapasoa and Pearson singing at  Carson City Zone Conference

As part of our training in Zone Conference we continured to do role playing. The role playing took place in the 'living room' of the investigator. The lesson "The Restoration" was taught. There are eight segments to the lesson. For every segment we called a different companionship to come up and teach . They had no advance notice and they had five minutes to teach the information. It was an incredible experience to listen to the missionaries teach. Each companionship did a wonderful job. 



Vehicle inspection takes place at every Zone Conference

Leadership Training Meetings

Leadership Training Meetings have taken place in Reno and in Las Vegas. Those invited to attend were the Zone Leaders, the District Leaders and the Trainers.  We have been asked to continue to train  using the Fundamentals to Preach My Gospel.  The leaders will take what they have learned and teach it in their zones and districts..

Reno Area


President Black

Sister Black

Elders Schleiffarth, Hill and Rice

Elders Kiaha and Stucki

Las Vegas Area

Elders Kamalamalama and Byers

By following the right whisperings, Elder Fetner was
able to put the ball right in the basket!

After 6 hours of training, everyone was ready

to call it a day!

Full Mission Zone Leader Council

Quarterly the Zone Leaders from the north area of the mission travel south, those from the south area travel north and we all meet in Tonopah which is about 3 1/2 hours coming from either direction. We meet together in Zone Leader Council. This is a meeting for all the Zone Leaders have to opportunity to meet together for sharing ideas, for discussion of the mission and for training. Ordinarily, this meeting is held both in the north and in the south as two separate meetings. It was great to be all together.

Elders Valez, Tapusoa, Pearson, Hill, Hensley, Josephson, Rice
Towns, Kamalamalama, Stucki, Spencer, Kiaha, Byers, Stevens, Liddiard, Williams,
Pomee, Schleiffarth, Irwin, Bush, Matekel

President and Sister Andersen, President and Sister Black, President Rands