Great Zone Conference

Saturday, President Olauson - our mission president came to Selfoss for Zone Conference. We had a change in the Assistant to the President and so the old and assistant, the new assistant and the President provided the instruction. All three gave great instruction. We learned more about missionary tools - our mission website and the baptismal calendar from Elder Soelberg. Elder Teodoro taught about Urgency and the need to use Faith, Expectation and Passion in the work and how those relate to two other missionary tools. President Olauson began his teaching by giving each of us the coin shown above. Coins are a military tradition and he was a Navy Chaplin, He explained when he was a Chaplain, he and the other LDS Chaplains decided they wanted a coin to use and this is the coin they developed. He received permission from the Area Presidency to give them to each of the Denmark Copenhagen Mission missionaries. He presented them to each one of us in the traditional handshake with coin in the palm of his hand. If you open the picture, you can read about the history of coins and what inspired this particular coin. He then taught us about charity and our love for the Savior. He teaches with many experiences from his time in the Navy and it adds so much to the Spirit of his teaching, He challenged each of us to teach with more power by referring to "our Savior" and even more "my Savior" rather than "the Savior" for He came to earth for each one of us individually and He gave His life for each one of us. He knows each one of us and He loves each one of us and He wants each of us to return to Him.