Transfer Day is Here!!!

 Last night (the night before transfers) we added 2 more Sisters to our home for the night.

That gave us 5 Sisters in all.  It was kind of like a missionary slumber party.

It was interesting trying to figure out where everyone would sleep....

and how everyone would pack without keeping the others awake.....

I'm calling the Sisters above, "The Temporary Sisters."

They are both are brand new missionaries. 

Sister H (left) left for the MTC 12 days ago and after a brief spiritual high....

wound up here....

sleeping on an old, lumpy sofa sleeper in a makeshift bedroom
(missionary life at its finest). 

She is an English speaking Sister and was to be transferred to another ward.

Sister M (right) went to the MTC 6 weeks ago.

We thought she might turn out to be our new Sister....and we were right!

You will see more pictures of her as the days go by. 

 Sister O had accumulated a lot of "stuff."  

She is not the first missionary to go home from here, 

so I knew it might take her half the night to go through her things to pack (and it did!). Sister O has been at our house for 7 months.

Sister W also had to pack because she was being transferred,
 but because she has only been out in the mission field for 

about a month, and she was not going home, it was easier.

Sister W and Sister O made sweet little goodbye memory notes
and hid them in strange places

for Sister O to find as she packed.   

 This morning there was some unforeseen difficulty.

No one had thought through the suitcase/multiple people in the car issue.

They found it was physically impossible to fit 5 Sisters and 4 big suitcases into

one mid-sized mission vehicle!

That's okay.....

The Elders came to rescue the damsels in distress!!

 and it gave me something to Blog about!!!

I love getting to know each of the missionaries....
and I find it sad telling them goodbye.

 My oldest son told me he thought being on his mission was a little like going to 

scout camp (a spiritual one) for 2 years.  

I can see that Elders make the best of things and have fun

while they are working/saving people.

Thank goodness for Elders!