Specialized Training June 2016

We just completed our Specialized Training held over three days from South to Fresno to North.  If you look at the group pictures they look very calm, cool and collected as Missionaries do but wow!  put them on a scripture mastery game and everything changes.  They get just a wee bit competitive.  Sister Clark had challenged the Mission to memorize the references and subject of 114 scripture mastery scriptures from PMG and to memorize 30 actual scriptures included therein.  As a bonus, any Missionary who wanted to memorize all 110 (we didn't require they memorize entire chapters like the Book of Enos) would win lunch at the Cheesecake Factory hosted by President and Sister Clark.  Congratulations to Sisters Blocker and Johnson and Elders Perez, Ostler, Bagley and Cummings!  Watch for pictures as we dine on Monday.  Meanwhile, we had a quiz off/face off of the mastery using Eggspert  buttons and it was a blast.  They did such a wonderful job and we will trust all fun aside and included, knowing these references will help them be even better teachers, allowing the Holy Ghost to draw from their treasured up knowledge.

Specialized Training in the South - June 21, 2016

Hanford, Visalia, Porterville zones

Back Row, left to right: Elders Mapp, Estrada, Ekpo, Draney, Noffal, Cho, Watson, Olsen, Roberts, Vawdrey, Crosby. Dean, Wilmoth, Perez, Checketts
3rd Row: Elders Allred, Del Carmen, Modesto, Perkins, McGraw, Morrison, Park, Nelson, Richardson, Muir, Millburn, Keeley, SParks, Taylor, Mora, Lopez
2nd Row:  Elders Spear, Bishop, Johnson, Larson, Woodmansee,  Strommen, Collins, Maas, Garner, Lybbert, Call, Atkinson, Howard, Lamoreau, Mountford
Front Row:  Sisters Aboussou, Arruda, Dano, Aguilar, Troseth, Anderson, Sister and Elder Hammonds, President Howard, President and Sister Clark, Elder and Sister Gressel, Elder and Sister Levie, Sisters Putnam, Blocker, Jefferies, Corbridge

Departing Missionary Testimonies

Sister Arruda, Elder Lybbert

Sister Dano, Elder Cho

We welcome Sister and Elder Hammond and Elder and Sister Gressel to our mission!

President Howard, Visalia Stake President,  pictured in the upper left hand corner, visited our meeting, he had great things to say!  We love President Howard!

Specialized Training in Fresno - June 22, 2016

Fresno, Fresno North, Fresno East Zones

Top Row, left to right: Elders Ford, Cunningham, Poulsen, Lee, Ostler, Smith, Lillywhite, Thornton, Oliphant, Berry, Stojka, White, Biggs, Herman, Gray, Rust, Peterson, Austin, Beck
Middle Row: Elders Ordonez, Arebalo, Matienzo, Agazzani, Burke, Van Vleet, Blume, Whitfield, Bradshaw, Carnahan, Flores, Wilson, Tongish, Kennick, Smith, Walker, Baconawa, Hibbert, Vastbinder
Front Row: Elder Spear, Sisters Tyler, Larsen, White, Windham, Wadham, Johnson, Larsen, President and Sister Clark, Sisters Schillemat, Kakuschke, Murray, White, Maxwell, Jones, Bangerter, Elder Checketts

Departing Missionary Testimonies

Elder Berry, Elder Whitfield

Sister Schillemat, Elder & Sister Larsen

Specialized Training in the North - June 23. 2016

Merced and Fresno West Zones

Top Row,  left to right: Elders Spear, Checketts, Belmont, Bennett, Frei, Bagley, Hopkins, Carson, Harolds, Toombs, McDaniel, Gollner, Schmid, Ikimau, Pace

Middle Row: Elders Halliday, Rushton, Arroyo, Morales, Valenzuela, Mota, Cummings, Rearte, Frame, Anderson Eliason, Russell, Mendez, Jensen, Harrison

Front Row:  Elders Vargas, Flores, Quinn, Watts, Sisters Plummer, Wright, President Olzack, President & Sister Clark, Sisters Simonson, Dowdle, Elders Talbot, Davis, Bean, Sullivan

Departing Missionary Testimonies

Elder Jensen, Sister Simonson, Elder Mota

Elder Bean, Elder McDaniel

We always sing "Called to Serve California Fresno Style" to those who serve us our wonderful lunch!