May 28

Minutes from transfer day meeting.

This meeting is held about every six weeks. I think there were 38 new missionaries who arrived today. The office staff (with a little help from a couple of the senior missionary couples) feeds everyone. The new missionaries are greeted by the mission president and his wife. Then they get assigned to the wards where they will labor and then meet their first companions.

The going-home missionaries have the opportunity to bear their testimonies. Here are my notes from that part of the meeting in case you'd like an insight into their mindset (and maybe, indirectly, mine as well).

Dreading not wearing his name tag beginning tomorrow. There is no comfort in the growth zone; there is no growth in the comfort zone.
Gathering of Israel. The Book of Mormon is the book that is doing it.
Be joyful about the ability to repent
Be aware of what you do every day, because it will all add up.
Fill up your planners
Look whose name is on your name tag along with yours.
Last advice...given by prophets and fathers.
My heart is aching knowing I have to leave, but yet my joy is full.
There is nothing that can stop this work, so decide now to be a part of it. Live each day to bring Christ's mission into other people's lives.
That which is to give light must endure burning.
Jeffrey R. Holland - The crowning characteristic of love is loyalty. The WA-TAC (Washington Tacoma Mission) is a forever thing.
Through Jesus Christ, we can all be happy; through Jesus Christ, we can all be clean. Go out and do something crazy for God.
The only thing harder than going on a mission is leaving to go home.
The atonement isn't something that happens at the end of life; it can happen now.
We are here to find those who want to hear the gospel, not those who want to argue with it. We need to make it happen. Work and having fun do work together.
The way I've lived the past two years should be my strongest testimony of Jesus Christ.

Sister Quillon