It was with great anticipation that we awaited our first arrivals to the Arizona Phoenix Mission! And, we were blessed with not only one flight to greet...but with THREE! Two were supposed to come at the same time, but as luck would have it, the largest group was delayed over an hour so we were able to greet all three flights in person.
The first two flights brought us Elders Gerber and Northrup, both so excited to be here! Our Braden on the far right, enjoyed wearing his new nametag and looking the part of a missionary as well.
We sent the first two missionaries with assistants to the office and met the large group from Salt Lake. Sisters Overy and Watson in front. Middle row: President, Sister Taylor, Elder Robinson and Brame. Back row: Elders Neves, Hamblin, Burden, Weston, Tucker, Larsen, Estes, Johnson and Bolton.
After a visit and orientation at the mission office, we headed to the mission home. We took pictures out front and then again in back with our mission flag.
We have a new logo for the mission while we are here that focuses on the building of the new Phoenix Temple, due to be completed while we are here!
All our new missionaries signed the flag...
wrote letters home...
signed their quilt block for our mission "Temple Quilt"...
And, I even talked some of them into being brave enough to go on a run in the Phoenix heat the next morning! Elders Larsen, Hamblin, Gerber, Robinson and Bolton took the challenge.We LOVED having the new missionaries in our home overnight! It filled our home with love, music and the Spirit! WELCOME TO THE PHOENIX ARIZONA MISSION!
3 comments:
We loved seeing pictures of our sweet missionary as she arrived in Phoenix.
Thank you!
Jodi Watson
Thank you so much for the photos of Elder Weston! I'm surprised he didn't get up and run!! You should give him a hard time about that...he was a cross-country and track runner here at home!!
I thought that Elder Weston was one of the runners that morning...it surprises me too!
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