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| Our new missionaries reporting for duty: From left to right: Sister George, Sister Valasquez, Elder Averion, Elder Valdez, Elder Armoreda, Elder Penaranda, Elder Dela Cruz. Back row: Elder Delector, Elder Williamson, Elder Young and Elder Wooden |
On June 16 we got a text around 5:00 am saying that our batch of new missionaries had just left Santiago. It's really great, the MTC designates one of the missionaries as the travel leader and they give that person a cell phone. During the night on their all night bus ride they update us periodically so that we can be ready to pick them up when they arrive. So by 6:00 am we ran to the bus stop and within a few minutes they arrived. As usual we fell in love with them the minute we met them.
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| President greets Elder Wooden and Elder Williamson as they walk off the bus. |
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| It's a scramble to find everyone's luggage and load them into the cars. Elder Young is the only new elder facing the camera. |
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| We gave them a brief orientation. You can see they were pretty tired! |
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| Our three new elders from the US. They traveled over 40 hours to get here! |
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Two beautiful new sister missionaries, Sister Velasquez and Sister George (from Pakistan)
We love our new missionaries and can't wait to spend the next year and half to two years with them! |
Thanks Sister Carlos for taking these photos. Even when it is just the side of his face, it makes me happy to see my missionary! Much love to all of you!
ReplyDeleteSusan Young
Mother of Elder Young, Cauayan Philippines