It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the mission office.

Sister McMillan and Sister Conder have been busy decorating.

They put the names of each missionary on the ornaments.

The missionaries have had a fun time as they come to the office

trying to find their ornament.

O Christmas Tree!

Elder Fairbanks and Elder Weekes

Elder Salinas and Elder Reyes

Elder Sanders and Elder Conklin

Elder Buchkovich and Elder Gidewall

Elder Peacock and Elder Lee

Elder Lopez

Elder Oakey and Elder Edwards

Elder Zachary

Elder Woodard and Elder Lane

Elder Larson, Elder Ringer, Elder Mouser

Elder Chambers, Elder Weaver

Elder Pennington, Elder Jacobsen

Sister Anderton

Sister Belliston and Sister Dillistone

Sister Macdonald

Elder and Sister McMillan

Elder and Sister Conder

President and Sister Black

Transfers...December 10, 2012

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Elder Conder took lots of pictures....

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Until We Meet Again!

 Six weeks have flown by!

It is again time to say good-bye to another group of

missionaries as they finish their missions.
Elder Gott had to leave a week earlier than Elder Weaver and Elder Rogers.
He is from Canada and his VISA expired just a few days before
his scheduled release date.
It is always with mixed feelings that we say good-bye, but
we are excited as each missionary returns home and opens
a new chapter in their book of life.
We wish each of you the very best... and
a very Merry Christmas!

Elder Gott

 

.......with great anticipation of going home for Christmas!

 

 

Elder Weaver, Elder Rogers, Sister Black, President Black

 

Elder Weaver

 

Elder Rogers

 

One final farewell pose!

Welcome....Seven New Missionaries!

Another group of new missionaries!

On a Monday morning, every six weeks, we head to the

airport and wait for a group of

sharping looking young men come down the escalator!

This week we welcomed seven new Elders. 

We are excited to have them here and look forward to working with them!

 

 

 

Welcome to Las Vegas!

 

Elders Manning, Lapeyrouse, Nunez, Marstella, John, Golden, Mulivai

 

Elder John

 

Elder Golden

 

Elder Mulivai

 

Elder Nunez

 

Elder Manning

 

Elder Marstella

 

Elder Lapeyrouse

Zone Leader Council - December

Zone Leader Council is usually held the first week of each month. President Black and the

Assistants train the Zone Leaders so that the Zone Leaders can go back and train the

Zones and the District Leaders.

 

 

 On chairs  - Elders Weaver, Rogers

Next row - Elders Edwards, Peacock, Salinas, Reyes, Oakey, Ringer, Larson, Lee,

                  Dowuona-Hammond, Weekes, President Black

Next row - Elder Vieirra, Fairbanks, Chambers, Alford, Zachary, Findlay, Mouser, Lopez

 

 Role-playing is an effective way to learn and practice

 

Lunch is always a great way to end a meeting!

 

Temple Day -- November 28,2012

The missionaries always look forward to the quaraterly temple day.

Because there are nine zones in the mission and each has between 15-20 missionaries,
there are three zones that attend a session at one time.
The first group had to be at the temple at 6:30 a.m., the second group at 7:30 a.m.
 and the third group at 9:30 a.m..
Because the Las Vegas Temple is outside the mission boundaries, the missionaries depend upon members to give them rides to the temple. Members are wonderful to the missionaries.
It was a great day for everybody.


I was able to catch a few of the companionships
for pictures as they were either going into or coming out
of the temple.

 

Spring Mountain District Meeting

Each week we visit different Zone Training Meetings or

District Meetings.  Last week we visited the Spring Mountain

District Meetings.

 We love being with the missionaries and sitting in on their training meetings.

 

 

Elders Crapo, Guist, Schmidt, Wanner, Paz, Zachary,San Miguel, Solis, Jones, Wilcock, Blanco, Stewart, Lopez, Skinner  Sisters McKnight, Luamanu, Fisher

Turkey Bowl 2012

Once again Thanksgiving morning began with a few friendly games of flag football being played.  There were teams representing all nine zones in the mission.  There were lots of players on the field and lots of suppporters watching from the sidelines.  The weather was perfect
 and a good time was had by all! 

 After the games were over,  all the missionaries hurried home to clean up so they could 
go enjoy eating Thanksgiving dinner with the members and/or
investigators they are working with.

We are thankful for all the missionaries serving in the Nevada Las Vegas West Mission.

We love them and constantly pray for their health, their happiness and for their success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mesquite and Logandale District Meetings

A week or so ago we went out to Mesquite to attend the Mesquite and Logandale

District Meetings and to work with the missionaries.

We loved the opportunity to learn together and to

go out teaching in the area.