Transfer Meeting

Before the transfer meeting we have a luncheon for the trainers and our new missionaries

All of our trainers with the new missionaries right before we announce the companionships!

All the missionaries after they find out who their trainer is get to pose by the map and find out where they will be serving!

Some of our trainers get very excited when they finally find out who they get to train!

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Transfers 10 November

We welcomed 15 new missionaries to the mission today! They came from Utah, California, Nevada, Washington, Virginia, Montana, and Finland!

We had our traditional enchilada "Welcome to Spain" luncheon in the mission home. 

The Assistants accompanied us by singing our mission song "The Greatest Mission on the Earth's Great Face"

Elder Ibarra sang "How Great Thou Art" to bring the Spirit, and what a marvelous voice he has!

We recognize our mission cook, Carolina Puelles, for her fabulous cooking and how much she does for our missionaries. 

We took our new missionaries on a tour through the city of Barcelona and ended at the top of Montjuic. President Dayton spoke of the history of Spain and the wonderful opportunity we will have to baptize many in this area. Each missionary was given 10 minutes to refelct following his devotional. 

We have our final banquet with our missionaries who will be returning home tomorrow.  We enjoy a delicious meal, sing hymns, share favorite experiences, and conclude with a testimony meeting filled with the spirit.  These are the most special meetings we experience as we see these faithful, diligent missionaries share their sweet remembrances of their time in the Spain Barcelona mission. These seven missionaries will be greatly missed.

Saying goodbye to our obedient, hard working missionaries is always the hardest part. We took these 6 missionaries (our other hermana who went home had her parents pick her up at the mission office) to the airport Wednesday morning.

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Missionary Leadership Council/Residency

In Missionary Leadership Council President Dayton taught about diligence, work, and using time wisely. I taught leadership principles and how to be an effective leader. We discussed ways we can improve baptisms and the council made the following decision regarding emails: E-mails will only be read on preparation day.  The time is extended to two hours for e-mails (an additional half hour).  We discussed how e-mails read during the week are a distractor, because missionaries are tempted to stop where there is WiFi, at a computer cafe, a church, or at a member's home.  We decided that this policy will help us remain focused on the all-important work of bringing others to Christ.

President and I received our residency cards this week.  Elder Day and Elder Wadsworth accompanied us.

Elder Alder and Elder Keen danced to the words "Dos Zapatos," which emphasizes the importance of finding and teaching in missionary work.

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