TRANSFERS MAY 2013

 PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINE TO GO TO WEB ALBUM OF ALL PHOTOS OF THIS EVENT!
Hard to believe that transfers were really this week.  It seems like a month ago already because of how busy it has continued to be.

 Wednesday of Transfer week we take our new missionaries to the "Transfer Building" near the Mission Home.  We line up all the Trainees on one side of the room...

...and the Trainers on the other side.
President Taylor then announces who will be training who!  It is so exciting!  It is a process of inspiration that  leads him to place who with who.

 We then take photos of each Companionship... or in some cases, Tripanionship!

 Don't they look great together?
Go to the web album to see all the pair-ups!

After a great training session with these new companionships, we take them all into the chapel as the rest of the group being transferred sings "Called To Serve."  It is so exciting!

 When we got them all up on the stand, this is how full the choir seats looked.

(Just saying...next month there will NOT be room on this stand!  At least 7 more companionships than this group!)

 Transfer meeting is really spiritual.  The Spirit witnesses the guidance of who goes where, and President Taylor shares his testimony in word and in a DVD photo presentation.

These are our Spanish Hermanas after the meeting.  Aren't they colorful and beautiful?

 This photo is fun...two companionships...one that looks like twins (Ure and Farnsworth) and one that have more opposite hair and skin (Beck and Cabral) but both totally amazing and so happy to be serving the Lord!

 After transfer meeting it is organized chaos in the parking lot area of the Church.  But it all is happy and so fun to see each other as bikes and luggage are transported to new locations.

 Oh how we love these missionaries!  Many of them in these pictures here will become part of the new boundaries of the Tempe Mission on July 1 when two new missions are created here in the Metro area.
It breaks our hearts to think of the change, but we know the work here is hastening and we cannot stand in the way.  We are so grateful for eternal relationships!

Fun to get President Taylor outside in a photo for a change.
MARCH ON APM!!!