Over and Over Again

It is time again for Missionaries to come and go. It seems like we do this over and over again. These are all pictures of the Missionaries leaving to go home from our mission. From top to bottom, left to right we have Sister Lubigan and Lonesa (Phillipines), Elder Kraft. (US), Elder Plowman (Arizona US), Elder Murphy (Canada), Elder Chung (Tahiti), Sister Tenishcheva (Ukraine), Elder Siew (Malaysia), Sister Park (Korea), Sister Turner (New Zealand), Elder Franco (US), and Elder Tongi (New Zealand).

This is our new group coming in, I will not go through all of their names but they are from all over the world. They are so excited to get started. Below is the new Missionaries with their trainers.

When we get to take some of the Missionaries to the airport sometimes we get a parting shot with them as I did here with Elder Kraft.

Sometimes at the airport we run into Missionaries from the New Zealand Hamilton Mission which borders our Mission to the South. In this case I met Elder Ete, who has a sister serving in our Mission. His sister is Sister Ete who I taught to ride a bike and made her this bicycle cookie. You might remember her in the previous blogs.

Right after transfers we start Zone Conferences and we have great opportunities to rub shoulders with the Missionaries. They love the selfies so we did our own here with Elder Sanf-Walters and Elder Leao.

These Sisters love to see each other during Zone Conference and love to have pictures taken for their scrapbooks.

I am not very good at this selfie thing as you can tell from this photo.We were organizing for our group shot for Zone Conference and a selfie broke out. Aren’t they just so fun.

Not all Missionaries go home on the same transfer day as is with the case of Elder Siew who went home about a week after the other outgoing Missionaries. We were able to take him to the airport and wait since his plane didn’t leave till about 11:00 pm. Some members from areas they served come to see them off and present them with leis as you can see.

We have completed 3 of our 4 Zone Conference so far. We love seeing the Missionaries, even though it is usually when they are sick or have bicycle problems. Sister Bartlett has contracted some of their cold and flu symptoms. We love being here among these Missionaries and among our Ward members.We hope to do it again after this Mission has ended. After we have spoiled our grandchildren for awhile.

Love you all Elder and Sister Bartlett