Working with young missionaries

One of the joys of our mission is the opportunity to work closely with the young missionaries. We meet with our district every week.  We meet with our zone approximately every three weeks. We study the gospel together, discuss the status of missionary work in the area and have a little fun too. 

Add our latest district meeting we played a fun game trying to discover the person from the scriptures whose name was written on the card attached to our foreheads. We can see and this photo sister Christiansen and sister Nevitt having a good time with this game. Sr. Nevitt is the niece of Monte And Julie Nevitt, for our Prescott friends.

It is always interesting for us Arizona people to see the snow that accumulates in the winter.  Even though we have not had a very bad winter so far, the shopping center parking lot gets full of snow quickly when there is a bit of a snowstorm.  These snowbanks will stay for weeks.

This past week we had a transfer meeting. These meetings are the best. We love the enthusiasm of the young missionaries as they learn about their new companions and their new assignments.

As the mission historians, it is our job to take pictures of the new missionaries and the departing missionaries. We welcomed 21 new missionaries to New York with this transfer.

And we said goodbye to 17 missionaries. One sister missionary, Sister Watts and 16 elders. We hope she was well taken care of on her trip home!

At the transfer meeting the missionaries received wonderful counsel from Pres. and Sr. Calderwood.

They are wonderful leaders. They complete their three-year assignment at the end of June.

We feel honored to serve with them.

As CES missionaries we are invited occasionally to a special evening with a  general authority. This past week we had one of those meetings, with Elder Jeffrey R Holland. He didn't actually come to Brooklyn, but he visited with us electronically! Oh the marvels of our modern-day.

Elder Holland gave us wonderful counsel about what to teach him how to teach.  We love the gospel of Jesus Christ and rejoice in the restoration of the Gospel in these days. We feel so privileged to be able to serve as missionaries for a season.

It is hard to believe that we have completed over one year on our mission.