Mid Transfer

This week we had an extra transfer.  We had 6 new missionaries come in, all of them will be Chinese speaking missions.  Above are 4 of the Chinese speaking missionaries who met at the office for transfers and were so excited to see each other.  "Our family is together again!"they exclaimed.  One of them is the great grandfather, then the grandfather, the father and the newest one.  I love how they all consider themselves family.  The father is the original trainer and so on.  Of course now all of them will be trainers.   The work does go on.  We are having quite a few people getting baptized in the Montreal Mandarin Branch and now we will have 2 new areas opening up in Ontario.

The first time I got Chinese name tags, which I myself ordered, in all Chinese characters, I was so excited for the missionaries to be able to get them.  However, just a moment later I thought,  "Oh no. Now which tag goes to which missionary?  Haha..  I can't read Chinese.  They have to figure it out themselves.

These Chinese missionaries are from France, originally China but now Ca, U.S., Canada and Switzerland.  It's so fun for me to get to know Elder Riff.  He is actually the best from of one of our French Sisters from our last mission in France/Belgium.  Soeur Fritch is now married and has a little boy of her own, but they still remain good friends.  If's fun to have so many connections with people that we already know and people that we become friends with on the mission.

Each day those that live near the office come in to check for mail and to do e-mails.  Elder Fontaine from France, Elder Smith from Provo and Elder Fernandez from Toelle are some of those that come in quite often.  They are all awesome missionaries.

                                               Elder Renier in the middle is from Canada

                Sisters Ryser from Germany and Sister Zelaya  are always so cheerful and friendly.  I love to
                                     see them every day and to get a big hug from them.