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Thursday June 5
It was travel day today. Sister Warner, Merien, Winsie, and I went to Tonoas and Uman to do training. I worked with the Branch Presidencies and they with the Relief Society. These are the third and forth presidencies I have worked with. None of them have assigned counselors specific auxiliaries or programs. The more time I spend with these leaders the more amazed I am at how little they know and yet keep the branches functioning. When I started explaining how counselors function to the Uman Branch President he became excited and started asking questions. We will get into more details on each auxiliary and Aaronic Priesthood in future training. I keep finding that previous training has gone over their heads and assumed they know more than they understand. We are going back to these branches every week for the next month or so until they are running the basic programs. It seems that each time we uncover some missing basics in our training we greatly increase the amount of work that we now need to do.

I ate four pieces of fry bread, three bananas, and drank two coconuts in my travels today. We also brought home a sack full of coconuts for use at our home.

We got home about 5:00 and sat in the hot apartment waiting for the electricity to come back on. They started the generator at 6:00PM just in time for us to eat a quick snack before starting the English classes. We were both tired from our travels today so we shortened the English Class to just over an hour. The young people are a delight and we can see improvements so quickly. More want to come but we don’t have enough room in the apartment. We had 14 youth last evening. Moving from reading the Scriptures to reading and discussing Preach My Gospel with the older kids is making a difference. We read every scriptural reference in the book and discuss every word they don’t understand and do it in a Gospel context. Five quarts of ice cream will last the group through three meetings.

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