This week's highlight was TRANSFERS...
First, I have printed pictures of the Elders and Sisters that we have been serving with in the last nine months and they are on our refrigerator, and ever-changing.
We have had an atypical amount of missionaries coming and going in the last couple transfers due to various reasons. It actually has slowed the work down here in the Cheboygan Branch. When missionaries come and go, the next set coming in seem to make and teach completely different friends.
We said goodbye to both Elder Azevedo (Spanish Fork, Utah) and Elder Haws (St. George). We didn't really expect that, but hey, it's not our call. We had them over one last morning for breakfast before they took off for the "transfer van" in Mt. Pleasant. They were each headed to different areas.
Elder Azevedo really wanted, and thought, he was going to be staying here. We were all three sad.
Elder Haws (right) kinda felt he was going to be transferred even though he had only been here three weeks. He was actually returning to the mission after working hard for a year to come back out. It was kinda of a challenging companionship for them, but that is how it is sometimes.
But, we now have two Sisters serving with us now! A first for us.
Meet Sister Thompson, from Utah, but then from Georgia (left) and Sister Newman (right) from St. George, Utah. We've had a lot of missionaries here from St. George! Sister Thompson has been out for six months and Sister Newman just finished her training. They are really cute, young missionaries and have hit it off quickly. They are out and about working hard at finding new friends in spite of the cooler temperatures and rain that have hit here. They have been teaching us some of the slang words the missionaries use. They ask us to guess what they mean and then have the nerve to laugh at us when we say something so far off! We have them for at least a transfer which is six weeks.
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