Transfer weekend preparations

We had our office staff meeting today (3-27-18) and I snapped a quick picture of us in the Elder's office instead of in President Clayton's office.  The office is under construction, and so this was the safest place to be today!  We surely appreciate these office Elders. They are really the unsung heroes in the mission, and do so much of the behind the scenes work that make our conferences, councils, training's, and especially our transfers run so smoothly. They serve in the office, and also carry their own areas.  They are organized and disciplined, and we are grateful for them!

From left to right
Elder Sevilla - visas, flight tickets for Latinos, cell phones, English tests.
Elder Anderson - Financial Secretary - all financial affairs, flight tickets for Americans, name tags
Elder Ramirez - (has just finished training Elder Sevilla and will be reassigned back into the field this transfer) he’s been awesome!
Elder Martindale  - materials and referrals, president's car, certificates, letters to parents
Elder Moreno - housing, mailing supplies and furnishings

The other half of the equation are the Assistants!  Elder Long, Elder Cluff and newly called Elder Velasquez.  We are grateful for them as well!!  They are outstanding examples here in the mission. They really do provide by example, a missionary standard of excellence.  We have great confidence in them as they travel throughout the mission, representing President Clayton and I, working with and strengthening our missionaries. They too carry their own areas, and then some.
We had a goodbye breakfast for Elder Long this morning as part of our transfer meeting.
We love our missionaries!!!

By the way... these are Elder Long's shoes.

Like so many other missionaries here in the mission....

their shoes tell the tale.  They really do walk, and walk,

and walk........ and walk.

We appreciate every step they take... and we know

the Savior, Jesus Christ, does too!

#we love our missionaries!