Welcome to Spain!!! (Day 2) - First Companions!

We kicked off the new missionaries second day with a group picture of all the new missionaries and their future companions. From here on the suspense began to build as each wondered who would be their companion.

Elder Jones walking in with the Golden Envelope

After eating a delicious Cafe-Rio style meal and a few final hours of training it was finally time to assign these wonderful new missionaries to their first companions, their mission trainers. Elder Jones (the office secretary) so kindly brought in the golden envelope that contained this precious information. A fun, upbeat spirit filled the room and the following assignments were made.

Elder Adcock will be trained by Elder Leavitt in Valencia!

Elder Bressler will be trained by Elder Graham in Valencia!

Sister LeSueur will be trained by Sister Doezie in Valencia!

Sister Read will be trained by Sister Cummings in Valencia!

Side note here: It is rather rare to have four new missionaries all going to the same city. That said, all these assignments are certainly inspired and Valencia will be cheering for these lively new missionaries during their entire stay.

And we continue with the assignments!

Sister Gratzl will be trained by Sister Meredith in Bilbao!

Élder Gómez será entrenado por el Élder Tobias en Vic!

Élder González será entrenado por el Élder Ramos en Cornellà!

Elder Haffner will be trained in Marratxí by Elder Garner!

Elder Lozano will be trained in Gerona by Elder Hodgeman!

Fun Fact: The new Assistant to the President, Elder Hemeyer, trained Elder Hodgeman who is now training Elder Lozano. As a result, we were able to take a fun "Three-Generation Training Genealogy" picture!