Zone Councils

President and I love attending the zone councils after our MLC. Wednesday I attended with El Carmen and Pres with Satelite. Thursday I attended with Planeta and Pres with La Paz.  We also enjoy going out to lunch with them after zone council. 

Zona El Carmen

 

August 2026 MLC

We had our MLC council today. It was excellent. We have a bunch of new ZL's so we did some training on how to be effective ZL's, how to resolve problems, how to communicate, and how importance obedience is. Elder Williams, one of our AP's gave a amazing presentation on how important obedience is.  I talked about D&C 121 and how important it is to not be prideful or exercise dominance as a leader and to correct quickly, clearly and with a lot of love. President talked about baptisms.  We set a very high baptismal goal of 200. We told our leaders if they wanted to set the goal that high, that they needed to commit to getting 4-5 baptisms themselves because we want 30% of our baptisms to come from our leaders. We are also going to do a mission fast from things that our preventing us from being more obedient.  Our MLC meeting is one of our favorite days. 

 

August 2026 Newsletter

 

Roatan Trip with the Christensen Family

Right after we sent the new missionaries off to their areas, we headed to the airport and flew to Roatan. Kirt's parents and all of Kirt's siblings and their spouses (minus Kyle and Kim, plus Evan and Calvin) were already on Roatan. Kirt's parents rented a beautiful airbnb for us to stay in. We landed, bought groceries and I dropped Kirt off to have dinner with his family. I was exhausted and had a bunch of things to do for English Connect before the next day, so I took the groceries to the airbnb.  When they all returned from dinner we visited a bit before bed.  

Friday morning we went to the Dental Brigade at the Roatan chapel for a few minutes.  A bunch of dentists from the states come to Roatan each year and volunteer their services to the people of Roatan.  One of our former missionaries that wants to be a dentist, Kylee Tucker, came with them to help and to translate.  We went to say hi to her and the missionaries that were volunteering there.  

Kylee!

Then we went to the north east side of the island and went on an adventure. We took the boat out on the ocean and we swimming with manta rays and nurse sharks.  It was super scary at first, but then it was just super cool.  I even touched one.  Then we went for lunch and did some snorkeling on the way back.  The boat ride was a little long, but the rest of it was super fun. 

The cool airbnb at night.

Saturday we hung out in the morning and swam at the house. Then we went to the Half Moon Bay beach and had lunch at Sandy Buns.  Then we went to the Isoar and went on the rope swing. We hung out at the pool in the evening.

The boat is called Isoar. It has a fun rope swing on it.  You can rock the boat back and forth to really catch some air on the rope swing.

We saw scarlet macaws flying overhead when we were swimming in the pool.

Sunday we went to church at the Sandy Bay group. It was on the porch of a home. Elder Grissom and Elder Barton are the missionaries serving in the ward. Carlos Medina was visiting too.

Eating at the Blue Elephant Thai restaurant. I stayed with Connie and Vance and played Settlers and talked to Garret.

Monday we got up and relaxed a little and then flew back to the mainland.