Daily Archives: August 8, 2012

8 August 2012 – Transfers

 Transfer day finally arrives and there are a lot of changes in many of the zones. The 13 missionaries who will leave for home tomorrow went to the temple and the 12 arriving missionaries were introduced to their trainers. For once I managed to take quite a few pictures of new companionships at the meeting and later when they flowed into the office.

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Elder and Sister Boice are the new employment couple and they arrived on Saturday. They were introduced to the transfer meeting. I took this picture of elders Hall and Taylor because they had their jackets on. Elder Taylor was transferred. Elder Dowdle is training elder Harris.

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Elder Beer joined elder Bishop as the new Ft Lauderdale zone leaders. Elders H. Owens and Lee got a lot of points by helping sister Pier in the office as they waited for their car to get a bike rack installed. Elders Lewis and Rondo passed through the office on their way back to their area.

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After the meeting luggage, bikes and missionaries must be moved around to the right cars so they can join their new companions and areas. Elder Beagley is always busy at transfers. Cars need to be assigned, re-assigned, swapped, and of course repaired. It does not end with the end of the meeting because he then has to get all the paperwork in order so he knows which car is where. I am happy to just move pictures around on the transfer board and solve small phone problems. I do try to help him when needed but luckily – for me – this transfer was basically a one man show as far as vehicles were concerned.

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Elder Hoole is now the companion of our dear friend elder Rasmussen. Elder Hoole has a blog where his family posts his weekly letters. Elders Edwards and J. Owens are now companions. Elder Nielsen will be trained by our friend elder Fitts who has been one of our zone leaders for a number of transfers. He is going to be district leader in a new area where his Portuguese may be put to use. We are going to miss elder Fitts alway positive attitude but we know he is going to serve his last 3 months building up a strong district and train a powerful missionary.

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Sister Lake is now with sister Tuai. Sister Beck in turquoise will be training sister Bagley. I am sure I will be calling sister Bagley, sister Beagley and visa versa. Elder Meredith is moving over to Belle Glade and will serve with elder Wood.

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Sister Aloi on the left will be trained by sister Holder. Sister Holder was one of the first missionaries we met here. Sister Clayton will be trained by sister Keyworth. Sister Sheffield will be training sister Chavous.

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The two tallest sister missionaries will be serving together. Sister Steglemeier on the left will be trained by sister Dye. Sister Dye will make sure they have a lot of two mite days. After I took a close up, sister Dye complained that it did not show how tall they were so they got a second shot that shows all of them!