Words from the Mission President and Wife As Jordan and his Group Arrvies!!

Last week was our change week so we spent the week with all the fun activities relating to the welcoming of new missionaries and saying good bye to those finishing their missions. We received 16 missionaries on Tuesday, October 18. Thirteen elders and two hermanas arrived from the United States and one elder came from Argentina. He actually is from one of the cities Mark served in when he was a young elder so that was kind of fun!He also knows some of the people Mark taught way back when!!
We spent the day in orientations for the new missionaries, having them sign the legal documents needed, they had their interviews with President and then we had a dinner and testimony meeting before they all went to bed. The elders stayed in the sleeping quarters in the mission office and the hermanas came to the mission home with us. The next morning we had meetings to get the trainers ready and then the new missionaries joined in for some more training and the companionships were introduced. By 11am they were off in taxis or buses to their areas. We will see them all back at the mission offices the first week of November for some follow up training and to see how they are all doing with their twelve week training plan. They seemed like a great group and their language skills seemed pretty good in the testimony meeting