Dear Family,
Mission NewsTransfer Week:
This was transfer week. As usual it was a busy week, but this week was not as stressful as some other transfer weeks. Perhaps I know more what I am doing. I orchestrate the assignments of the other 6 senior missionary couple and Sister Chesbrough for some of the special assignments like taking via waiters to the airport (they usually fly out on Monday or Tuesday. The returning missionaries fly out on Wednesday.) The returning missionaries have a few hours for an excursion. I coordinate that activity. The missionaries usually choose to go to Mt. Vernon.
Monday the departing interviews are held in the mission office. This ruins my productivity for the day. One new arriving missionary is not a documented person. His family is from Ecuador. They arrived 7 years ago and he was baptized 6 years ago. He arrived with his parents from New Jersey about 2:00 in the afternoon. He did his MTC training online. I did some orientation about the mission for a couple of hours. One bit of training was about using a baseball cap. He had the baseball cap on backwards. I told him he needed to do something about his cap. He turned in around frontwards and thought he was good. I laughed inside and told him that baseball caps were not missionary appropriate attire and he took it off and put it in his suit case. He is a good humble missionary and I bet he will do well.
I helped pick up 14 new missionaries from the airport. They are excited to get started and have a bit of anxiety about the future. In the evening we went to the mission home and had dinner with them. We take their pictures and the missionaries text the pictures and a little message to their parents.
Tuesday is New Missionary Orientation where there is orientation for the new missionaries and the new missionaries are assigned their trainer companion.
Wednesday Mom and I took 2 elders to the airport. President and Sister Caplin took 4 sisters. We helped them check their luggage at 4 different airlines and took pictures. Our neighbor and buddy Sister Banluta left this transfer. Her trip home took about 30 hours to get to the Philippines. We have been here long enough that we grow to love our missionaries and it is sad to see them go.
Mom is having us memorizing scriptures the missionaries use. The first scripture is Alma 11:40:
40 And he shall come into the aworld to bredeem his people; and he shall ctake upon him the transgressions of those who believe on his name; and these are they that shall have eternal life, and salvation cometh to none else.
She started with a short one.
We had two phone do a factory reset. This causes the phone to lose the data that was on the phone. Hopefully the important contact information is stored “in the cloud” on the area book and Google area account. I have decided that we need to pull in the old mission phones sooner than I had planned. The missionaries with use the phones that they brought from home.
Fun StuffThursday Mom and I went to a luncheon put on by the company we use to invest our retirement savings. We had a delicious lunch with two other couples and another gentleman. We were able to talk about what we are doing in Virginia and a bit about the Church.
Last Sunday we attended a new member fireside. These are the best meetings of the mission. About 4 new members share their conversion stories and testimonies. I am always amazed at how articulate and solid in the gospel some of these new members are after such as short time in the Church. Some join the church after 3 weeks of meeting with the missionaries and some others take decades.
WES NewsI signed documents this week to buy out my partner. That decision was much harder after I received news that our biggest customer is going to delay shipments for 4 months. We will lose significant money over the next 4 months. The plan is that we will recover in October. I hope it is a good plan.
I am going to try to sell the company as soon as I can. I want to be able to focus my time on family and mission. Unfortunately it often takes a year to sell a company.
Family News
The very best part of the week is that it is Chelsea’s birthday today. Her last day of school was Thursday and she is spending a couple of days in Bear Lake relaxing and enjoying beauty of the area. One of the things we enjoy about Chelsea taking trips is that she visits with us as she is driving.
Love,
Dad
Mission NewsTransfer Week:
This was transfer week. As usual it was a busy week, but this week was not as stressful as some other transfer weeks. Perhaps I know more what I am doing. I orchestrate the assignments of the other 6 senior missionary couple and Sister Chesbrough for some of the special assignments like taking via waiters to the airport (they usually fly out on Monday or Tuesday. The returning missionaries fly out on Wednesday.) The returning missionaries have a few hours for an excursion. I coordinate that activity. The missionaries usually choose to go to Mt. Vernon.
Monday the departing interviews are held in the mission office. This ruins my productivity for the day. One new arriving missionary is not a documented person. His family is from Ecuador. They arrived 7 years ago and he was baptized 6 years ago. He arrived with his parents from New Jersey about 2:00 in the afternoon. He did his MTC training online. I did some orientation about the mission for a couple of hours. One bit of training was about using a baseball cap. He had the baseball cap on backwards. I told him he needed to do something about his cap. He turned in around frontwards and thought he was good. I laughed inside and told him that baseball caps were not missionary appropriate attire and he took it off and put it in his suit case. He is a good humble missionary and I bet he will do well.
I helped pick up 14 new missionaries from the airport. They are excited to get started and have a bit of anxiety about the future. In the evening we went to the mission home and had dinner with them. We take their pictures and the missionaries text the pictures and a little message to their parents.
Tuesday is New Missionary Orientation where there is orientation for the new missionaries and the new missionaries are assigned their trainer companion.
Wednesday Mom and I took 2 elders to the airport. President and Sister Caplin took 4 sisters. We helped them check their luggage at 4 different airlines and took pictures. Our neighbor and buddy Sister Banluta left this transfer. Her trip home took about 30 hours to get to the Philippines. We have been here long enough that we grow to love our missionaries and it is sad to see them go.
Mom is having us memorizing scriptures the missionaries use. The first scripture is Alma 11:40:
40 And he shall come into the aworld to bredeem his people; and he shall ctake upon him the transgressions of those who believe on his name; and these are they that shall have eternal life, and salvation cometh to none else.
She started with a short one.
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| Mom and I saying good bye to Sister Banluta – our good buddy at Dulles Airport |
Fun StuffThursday Mom and I went to a luncheon put on by the company we use to invest our retirement savings. We had a delicious lunch with two other couples and another gentleman. We were able to talk about what we are doing in Virginia and a bit about the Church.
Last Sunday we attended a new member fireside. These are the best meetings of the mission. About 4 new members share their conversion stories and testimonies. I am always amazed at how articulate and solid in the gospel some of these new members are after such as short time in the Church. Some join the church after 3 weeks of meeting with the missionaries and some others take decades.
WES NewsI signed documents this week to buy out my partner. That decision was much harder after I received news that our biggest customer is going to delay shipments for 4 months. We will lose significant money over the next 4 months. The plan is that we will recover in October. I hope it is a good plan.
I am going to try to sell the company as soon as I can. I want to be able to focus my time on family and mission. Unfortunately it often takes a year to sell a company.
Family News
The very best part of the week is that it is Chelsea’s birthday today. Her last day of school was Thursday and she is spending a couple of days in Bear Lake relaxing and enjoying beauty of the area. One of the things we enjoy about Chelsea taking trips is that she visits with us as she is driving.
Love,
Dad
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