Called to Serve Phoenix: November Arrivals

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

November Arrivals - New Kids on the Block

On a warm November day we had 9 new missionaries arrive in the mission. Welcome to the #1 Mission
Sister Cotrell, Sister Harvickson, Elder Cichy, Elder Campbell, Elder Holden, Elder Custance,
Elder Gardner, Elder Miles, Elder Johnson

Waiting for the transfer van to come pick up the missionaries and take them to the mission home.

A hungry bunch of missionaries who woke up early to catch a plane were ready to eat lunch and get to work.

3 comments:

Mark and Marianne Egan said...: I love your blog! It is helping my visualize my son's upcoming mission experience. He enters MTC January 6th. Thank you for posting photos of elders sleeping on floor, eating meals at mission home, receiving awards, etc. Your information has helped me overcome some of the anxiety involved in sending our young man away for 2 years. Mark and Marianne Egan, parents of Nick.; November 9, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Suzanne said...: Just saying hello. It was wonderful to see your faces. Doing good deeds must keep a person from aging as you both haven't changed a bit. We're doing well. Welcomed number 5 in September, Abigail Juliette. We think of you often. Matt and Suzanne Hansen; December 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Debra Beck said...: We love and miss you. Glad to see your family is growing. We have never been happier
love
Paul & Debbie; August 8, 2010 at 8:44 AM

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OUR MISSION CALL

In November of 2007 President Monson, the prophet, seer and revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, called us to serve as Mission Presidents in the Phoenix Arizona Mission. It was a very humbling experience as we accepted the call. Feeling inadequate for the responsibility that was ahead of us, we prayed for strength to prepare for the work. We would be going to the Phoenix Arizona Mission on July 1, 2008, to begin our three year mission to oversee the physical and spiritual well being of about 202 missionaries in the area. Our purpose was to "Invite others to come unto Christ and help them to receive the restored gospel on the earth". Our mission would include quite a large area to preside over. We would go south to Phoenix, north to Flagstaff, and to the Utah border in Page and east across the Navajo Nation to Chinle and to Crystal in New Mexico. It would be very difficult to leave our family and friends for a three year service, but there would be no question that this was what the Lord wanted us to do, and we felt confident that we could do it with his help. We also knew that where much is given, much is expected, and we had been given much.

"We will go where you want us to go dear Lord, we'll be what you want us to be!"