This morning we rose early and drove to West Columbia to attend our 3rd zone conference of our mission. We received an assignment to inspect mission vehicles prior to the beginning of the meetings; so we arrived at 0815 and assisted inspecting around 20 cars that the Elders and Sisters drive. We inspected the fluids, the tires, all the lights and signals and also the cleanliness of the vehicles. By far, they were all in pretty good shape, the missionaries take pretty good care of them.

The conference centered around becoming better teachers. We received a great deal of instruction and then did a lot of roll planing. It was a very fine day.

This evening we taught our normal Friday Institute class. This week we were teaching from 3 Nephi chapters 12 - 14. We had a good class and a lot of good interaction between the students discussing the lesson material which centered around the Beatitudes and the 10 commandments.