Back at the Mission Office

It's a beautiful day in Adelaide and a perfect day to take new missionary

photos. This is the heart beat of the mission and these new missionaries will

get oriented today and meet the office staff and many great missionaries. 

Hopefully, they can stay awake to meet their trainers later on.

Sisters first is an Australia Adelaide Mission rule.  We love you Sister 

Mongan.  Sister Mongan comes from a great missionary minded family.

This handsome Elder is Elder Ellingson from Mesa, Arizona. He is ready and

excited to get to work.  Infact, the Assistants took these new Elders down to

the City to proselyte even before we could get back from the airport. We love you

Elder Ellingson.

This is the great Elder Nelson from Chicago.  It won't be as cold here as 

Chicago gets and there is no snow but you will find this is a beautiful

country and great things are ahead. We love you Elder Nelson.

We put 2 missionaries on the plane this morning to New Zealand and picked up

this great Elder from the same place.  Welcome Elder Gaastra. Great missionaries

come from New Zealand!  We are so excited to have you serving with us.  We 

love you.

This is Elder Dietze from Canada.  It will also not be as cold as Canada here. 

We are confident great things are ahead for you Elder and we can see you

are ready to be obedient and work hard.  We love you.

We love you already Elder Payne.  This is exactly where you should be and

we can't wait to get to know you better and see you reap the harvest. We love

you Elder. Welcome!

A Wonderful, Busy Day!!

It's always a great day when we pick up new missionaries!!  This is Sister Reyes

from the Phillipines!  She is wearing a beautiful smile and is ready to serve in 

this wonderful mission.  We are so grateful to have you here Sister Reyes and

know you will see miracles.  We love you!

And this fantastic missionary is Elder Glova, also from the Phillipines!  He has 

been serving in the Manilla Mission for 4 months while he waited for his visa

so he is more than ready to get to work!  Welcome Elder!  We are thrilled you 

are here.  We love you!

Both of these great missionaries know some of our sisters and elders from the MTC!

One more of the great blessings from being a missionary are the eternal friendships

you develop as you serve faithfully with a common purpose.  We are here to

invite all of our brothers and sisters to come unto Christ. 

And.......we made it back to the mission office so these missionaries can be

instructed by our diligent office couples.  It is a blustery, rainy day and both of 

these missionaries were happy to put on their nice warm coats and a mission

sweatshirt!  They are both being assigned up north, so they will be back on a 

plane early in the morning to meet their trainers.  Next, President and I

headed to the Firle Stake Center to hold our MLC meeting.  We come away just

uplifted by the great leadership of this mission.  Our assistants, the zone leaders

and the sister training leaders lead this mission with love and humility and are always

guided by the Spirit of the Lord.  Thank you for magnifying your callings

in every way.  We love you so much. Also a big event today was the departure of Elder 

Rigby and Elder Toi to Alice Springs, where they will live and teach "out bush." These are

valiant, obedient, experienced missionaries that will do a great work with the 

Indigenous people of Australia.