Departing Missionaries - October 2014

This week we sent home with love an amazing group of missionaries! They have served so well. They truly are Disciples of Jesus Christ. Now they will add to that the calling of Life Long Missionary! We love you and will miss you dearly!

Back row: Elders Ivins, Holder, Stewart, Joseph
Middle: Sisters McCann, Shamanga, Parmer, Whiteley, Dodd, Allred, Heckel, Toledo
Front: Elders Collins, Baldwin, Barley, Sorenson, Manning

Our Amazing Elders!

 

Our departing Sisters!

Transfers - October 2014

Transfers are a day of excitement for everyone in the mission. Missionaries from all over the mission travel to the Mandarin building to meet up with their new companion and head to a new area. Change is at times difficult, yet we know that many miracles await in the transfer ahead. 

We begin the day with trainings presented to our new missionaries who arrived the day before and for our new trainers. We bring in experienced missionaries to role-play with our new missionaries. They are able to give them a taste of what to expect as they have spent months serving the people living in Florida and Georgia.

After the new missionaries meet their first companion and trainer they meet for a short meeting in the chapel along with all of the missionaries who are being transferred and/or receiving a new companion. President and I share some inspired words followed by a testimony meeting given by each of the departing missionaries. It is always a powerful and spiritual meeting as listen to those who have so faithfully served and are ready to go home and become powerful builders of God's kingdom!

After the meeting has ended our missionaries find their new companions and set off to their areas as quickly as they can to continue to work hard in bringing souls to Christ!

New Missionaries October 2014

Another 6 weeks have flown by and we have received 9 new reinforcements to the FJM. Can you believe only 1 sister? We have never had just 1 sister. We have never had just 9! We are so excited to have them join us in our journey to be disciples of Jesus Christ.We enjoyed getting to know each one of these missionaries a little better as we spent some time with them in the mission home the day they arrived. We know they will become powerful instruments in God's hands as they are trained by some of our best missionaries in the mission!

Elder Calapp training Elder Barney

Elder Heder training Elder Boyson

Elder Forsyth training Elder Brown

Elder Satchwell training Elder Crawford

Elder Tauoa training Elder Foust

Elder Rodriguez training Elder Peterson

Elder Vance being trained by Elder Redd

Sister Beaver training Sister Nufer

Elder Clark training Elder Westercamp

 We are also blessed to have the Winter's join the FJM as well! We are so excited to have them with us. Their combined abundant knowledge and talents will bless our mission in numerous ways! Sister Winter is a nurse and Elder Winter will be helping us with the mission car fleet and and taking charge of the technology and ipad department.

Sister and Elder Winter