Single Senior Conferences

November was the month of Single Senior Conferences.  Chris and I planned, and organized the conference and  along with other senior missionaries hosted it at the Mission Home.  We hold two senior conferences on consecutive weekends for the single older members of the church in this mission. 






First conference was for the ages 46+,  where we had 9 attendees from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia, some traveling up to 13 hours to get to the conference.  We provided three meals: dinner, breakfast next day and lunch. 

They stay at the mission home and participate in  activities such as early morning yoga (taught by yours truly!), scripture chases, spiritual thoughts and inspirational messages, games and testimony sharing.

The theme was "Charting your own Journey".  We had several members share their life's journey to find the gospel, and talked about what each are doing in their own lives. 

We talked about the Book of Mormon being the ultimate journal; written by many prophets through the years.We gave them their own journal and pen and encouraged them to keep a record of their spiritual thoughts and experiences through life's journey. 




Everyone seemed to enjoy getting to know each other and sharing the two days and night with members from all over the mission.  They will now be Facebook friends.

Our Second Conference was the very next weekend for the 31-45 year old.  This one brought 15 members in.  One man traveled over 16 hours on a bus to come from Montenegro to attend.  That's a big challenge here. It's
a long way to travel across the five countries and no one has a car.  Travel has to be done by bus or train with lots of stops along the way.  Most members can't really afford the cost of bus and train either.



It's pretty rewarding to watch them interact and learn from each other what challenges they are going through and that they are not alone, even if they are the only member of their family and neighborhoods. 

We plan and host these conferences twice a year.