Transfers, Transfers and more Transfers

Change is good, right? Well we are changing things up in Morristown! With transfer week comes lots of meetings and well obviously change.  But also lots of fun! 

Two Mondays ago we took the outgoing missionaries to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Russian Teardrop, and a couple more cool memorials.  It is so fun being with all of them! 

They are ready to "jump" into the next stage of life. 

Then Jane had a couple of days off while Paul had exit interviews and we took advantage of those!

Then Tuesday we went into the City and met my friend Bryn Wynder and saw Pippin.  Which is the weirdest play. Seriously we did not know what to think of that one... But it was still fun to get out and see a good friend! 

Wednesday we went to the beach! Sophie took her cute new friend Kami Cummings and I brought my friend Marissa James. We all enjoyed the nice sun and had a really relaxing day! The beach is a hour drive!! How nice is that? I am going to start going all the time! 

Friday Sophie and I both brought friends to Six Flags which is also really close to our house! Sadly it was a really rainy day... so we only got to go on a few rides but we still made the most of our day! 

Saturday was Trainers Conference.  In this meeting experienced missionaries are taught how to train the incoming missionaries! We consider these Elders and Sister the most important missionaries because they are setting up the future of our mission.  They not only teach the new baby missionaries but help them develop habits that they will use on their missions and for the rest of their lives! I could see the light of Christ in each of these missionaries. It is wonderful to feel their spirits and just be with them.

Then come in the new missionaries! Their plane landed around 4 on Monday afternoon and about 24 extremely tired "greenies" get right to work with trainings! They are all so excited to get to work but a little nervous to meet their soon to be companion/trainer. But I'm confident in all of them! They will all kill it out there in the field!

Apparently the Mexico MTC presidents are very very strict and so when the new Spanish speaking Elders and Sisters got here they were all surprised that they were aloud to sit next to each other and converse with each other. They were also really excited that they could listen to music, because absolutely no music is aloud in the Mexico MTC other than singing. I just thought it was hilarious how excited they were for those two things.

Once the new Elders and Sister were settled we welcomed them with a huge softball tournament! Which we had today with half of the mission, and the other half has theirs in two weeks.  Eight teams and one Champion! Softball, hot dogs, cracker jacks, bubble gum, and tons of energetic 18-23 year olds makes for a fun time! Zone 11 took the South Morristown Mission Cup. But everyone had a blast!! 

    Zone 11!! The Spiritual Walking Faith Bombs..  How could they not win with that team name? (yes I was on the winning team (;) 

Theres Zone 11's Zone leaders with their prize and favorite little one! 

And don't forget the Assistants.. straight out of the Sandlot.

Sophie and I am off to Utah tomorrow. Which we are both more than excited for!! And my parents are going to start doing splits with missionaries in each zone! They are both really excited to get out and get teaching with their missionaries. This is what they both love most about their calling so they are excited that they get some time to really start planting seeds with people!

We are all still alive and loving it out here! We are seeing miracles everyday and can see the hand of the lord in our lives, in each missionaries life, and in the lives of everyone that they teach! The Lord works in mysterious but miraculous ways.