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New Missionaries meet Trainers...and travel to their areas!


While the Trainees were off with the Office Elders, the Trainers were with President being instructed on the In-Field Training for New Missionaries. This new 12-week course is for Trainees. This requires much planning and 2 hours dedicated each day (instead of 1 hour) to companionship study. These companionships will now have personal study from 8:00-9:00am, 9:00-11:00am, out proselyting until 2:00pm. At that time they have Language Study until 3:00pm. Then proselyte from 3:00pm on...
Now let's see which Trainees go with which Trainers...

Elder Kennedy meet Elder Mikolyski. We have started calling Elder Kennedy 'the miracle worker', and we know he and Elder Mikolyski will do the same in ....

Elders Mikolyski and Kennedy will be heading to Lublin. They will see much success there as the previous missionaries have done a good job of getting many great things going.

After the training and assignments, we sat down to dinner. We are so excited for these great missionaries. Their lives are changing. The Lord has them going where He needs them and with whom they are supposed to labor.

Since our Sisters live in Warsaw and the Elders were taking up too much room, we decided we need to make a change that night...

So the Sisters loaded up their belongings and headed to their own apartments that night. Smart thinking! Now they could plan quietly and effectively that night and tomorrow start their transfer off ready to go.

Meanwhile back at the ranch... the Elders were downstairs trying to get everything organized for the transfer in the morning. Elder Kennedy was coming all the way from Szczecin and now going to Lublin. He decided to leave a few things in the "mini storage" of the mission as did Elder Hillyard. Elder Basha was busy setting up appointments for the next night for he and Elder Szymanski in Lodz.

Transfer morning. After feeding everyone, they headed out for the train station. We just had to get one picture of everyone 'according to size'. This was for Elder Basha as much as for anyone. He loves directing traffic.

Now according to companions. (We think that Elder Hillyard had to carry his socks and personal things in his arms inside plastic bags because his suitcase was full of janitorial items!)This is a powerful group of missionaries. It was so fun to be with them. They are off for an exciting transfer and for wonderful miracles to happen. The new training for missionaries to be more effective teachers is fabulous. People make better decisions with better information. That is what our missionaries are providing.

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  1. MarkJanuary 12, 2012 at 11:49 AM

    Haha according to both of those pictures, Ethan's height authority has been usurped! Haha lol

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