All. Day. Training. :)

We had a great day of training today with our seven new missionaries.
We began at the mission home with breakfast and personal interviews with President Clayton.

I went through:

*missionary apartments

*missionary health

*our missionary daily schedule, and 

*learning English

One last picture before we left for

the church to continue with our training.

A quick bite of lunch. 

Elder Taylor went through 

missionary finances.

The assistants went through 

materials, missionary security, and overall 

mission behavior and guidelines. 

Here are our seasoned trainers ready

to meet their new companions 

And here are our new missionaries

anxious to meet their trainers.

The wait is over!

Elder Astorga with trainer Elder Cervantes

Trainer Sister Arcaya with Sister Villodas

Trainer Sister Perez with Sister Cabrera

Elder Piau with trainer Elder Crismon

Trainer Elder Drumright with Elder De La O

Sister Torres with trainer Sister Ramos

Sister Baez with trainer Sister Urbina

   This wonderful group one more time!

7 New Missionaries!

Not one hour later, we welcomed our seven newest missionaries!!!

We love their bright smiles and determined attitudes!

We drove right to the Union stake center by the Temple 

to greet them and have a quick  bite to eat.

We introduced them to their initial materials, including

the Book of Mormon which, they quickly learned,

 in our mission, we carry in our hands all day, 

every day..... in the 4 finger power hold!

Here are the seasoned missionaries they will be

 spending their first full day with today.

Here are our newest missionaries!

With their companions for their first full

day in the mission!

They are ready to head out!

It's transfer weekend!!! 7-23-17

It is that time once again!
This transfer, we are saying goodbye to 12 outstanding missionaries!
These missionaries have been our leaders, our trainers, our go getters, our fire starters, our motivators.... they have been faithful and diligent and wow.... are we going to miss them!!

Here we are right before we attended the Temple together Saturday evening.

These 4 sweethearts drove over 

to the Temple with us :)

Final interviews with President Clayton 

our farewell dinner 

Getting ready for our final testimony meeting. 

Here they are with those long awaited

certificates of completion!

Our last group picture together 

Sister Clayton with the sisters

And President Clayton with the Elders 

Bright and early the next morning 7-24-17

we said goodbye to these outstanding missionaries.

And they were off. 

Another district activity contacting and finding!

We had an activity where we helped out our ward do their part

in the work of salvation. We had a table full of materials and another

table with water of orchata and water of Jamaica to give out

to the people passing by. We as missionaries made contacts

and the members as well were contacting as well.  

One boy who is around 10 years old gave out at least 5 copies

of the Book of Mormon. He afterwards told us that after

being rejected he said a prayer so that the hearts

of the people would be softened and then he got back to contacting.

It was an amazing experience for us all and the members

were able to see how they can do missionary work and they were

able to get more excited about sharing the gospel.