Missionaries Coming and Going

We arrived in  Berlin and hit the ground running.  Many things to learn and many things to do.  Elder and Sister Williams, the couple we replaced, did their best to teach us the things we needed to know.  We had two weeks to absorb what we could and hope for the best! 

February 13th we had 16 "finishers" leaving and 18 "new" missionaries arriving.  We left the morning of the 13th to pick up missionaries to take to the airport at 3:30 am.  We got them on their way, had a couple of hours and then went back to the airport to pick up the new missionaries.  It is quite a process to get the missionaries, go to the mission office, do paper work, interviews with the President, lunch, go to the hotel, the trainers arrive and have a meeting, they meet their new companions -----all in all, it is a two day process (which we may be streamlining when we get 35 missionaries next time).  On the 18th we got 7 fast track missionaries - so the process begins again - this time things went a little quicker because of the numbers!

Everyday is different, with new things to learn and new places to go.  We are best friends with the Garmin navi!!   We couldn't get anywhere without it.

 

"Finishers"

 

Elder and Sister Williams and the Beesleys

 

18 new missionaries - Feb. 13, 2013

 

7 "Fast Track Missionaries" - Feb. 18, 2013

 

These new missionaries arrive exhausted but ready to go.  They are excited to be missionaries.

 

 

We have discovered that when you are doing the Lord's work he provides a way for you to accomplish it - even when you think it is beyond your abilites.