Eleven Amazing New Missionaries Arrive In Cauayan

President Carlos welcomes new missionaries and shares some of his vision for their missions before breakfast is served.

After a long plane flight, and an all-night bus ride the North Americans were particularly hungry and tired.

Wow! What a batch! They are astig!

They sang a gorgeous arrangment of "I Need Thee Every Hour"

After the transfer meeting we met with the 11 new trainers and their new missionaries for a brief orientation on the new 90-day training program for new missionaries. We are so excited to see and hear how this new program works for this batch.

At 5:30 am Thursday, September 8, 2011, 12 welcomed our newest batch of missionaries. We were totally impressed wtih every one of them! In fact they have so much musical talent that we asked them to put together a musical number to sing at the transfer meetings. Five were North Americans and 1 Australian. And low and behold they were able to sing two verses of a hymn in tagalog. All of the missionaries at the transfer meeting were totally blown away. They were fantastic. Not bad for a quick practice between showers, breakfast, interviews with the President and a 90-minute orientation meeting. We are looking forward to getting to know and work with these missionaries. They are truly a special batch!