Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013: Southeast Area Mission Presidents Seminar

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Southeast Area Mission Presidents Seminar

Pres. & Sis Hall (Orlando), Pres. & Sis Summerhays (Tampa), Pres. & Sis Jensen (Tallahassee), Pres. & Sis Barry (Jacksonville), Pres. & Sis. Holsapfel (Burmingham) We all came out together.

Elder & Sis Gonzalez and Pres & Sis Hall

Elder Allen and Elder Gonzalez and Elder Gibbons

Dinner at Bay Hill Club (Arnold Palmer's Golf Club)
North America Southeast Area Mission Presidents Seminar November 2011

THE SOUTH EAST AREA MISSION PRESIDENTS SEMINAR was held in Orlando, Florida.

Elder Walter F. González of the presidency of the Seventy presided at the seminar. Elders Gibbons and Allen of the Seventy assisted in training during our gathering. We also enjoyed the company of seven additional members of the Seventy, including Elders Bluth, Giddens, Gay and Ingram.

Our seminar began on Thursday and concluded on Saturday about 4:00 pm. During our training we were blessed with an opportunity to worship in the Orlando Florida Temple on Friday afternoon (Orlando Temple Official Web Site). Following our temple session, we enjoyed dinner at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge (Bay Hill Club) and the opportunity to meet Arnold Palmer.

The focus of our training was on establishing the Church through real growth. It was another remarkable experience for us and one we will never forget.

It was wonderful to meet with the other mission presidents and their wives from our area during the seminar.
The second day was training from Elder Stephen Allen who is the Executive Director of the missionary department
Much of our training was practical in application and revolved completely around missionary work. "Establishing the church through real growth". Real growth means real conversion (Matt. 28:19,20) It is a balanced effort of conversion, activation and retention. Finding fault is not a way to real growth.

There is no competition when we are constantly focusing on others. We just have to do our best and God will make up the rest. That is the miracle.

Testimony is something constant through all your life that you need to continue to experience. Pay attention to these experiences.

John Taylor: "If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those you might have saved.

Improve teaching skills one by one, the whole gospel is one by one.

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FLORIDA ORLANDO MISSION HISTORY

Florida has a deep Mormon heritage, going back as far as 1843. Traveling elders were occasionally sent into Florida until the Florida conference was officially organized November 1, 1895, which conference was within the Southern States Mission. In 1937, the first chapel in central Florida was built in Orlando. In 1950, the church established what is now officially called Deseret Cattle and Citrus Ranch in Osceola County, southeast of Orlando. Today the Church owns 316,000 acres covering three counties, making it the largest cattle ranch in Florida. Orlando was the second Florida stake, and was organized on February 23, 1958.

On November 1, 1960 the Florida Mission was created out of the Southern States Mission. This was the fist mission for the State of Florida. The original Florida mission was divided into the Florida South Mission July 1, 1971, then later into the Ft. Lauderdale Mission (June 1974); the Tampa Mission being created in 1976, and the Jacksonville Mission in July of 1987.

The Florida Orlando Mission is now graced to have within its boundaries the Church Ranch and the first temple of the church in Florida, the Orlando Temple.