Transfers – All Change

I guess you all know by now how much we love transfer meetings. It’s our chance to catch up with the missionaries as they change area or collect their new companion but best of all it is seeing the new missionaries meet their trainers. I am normally shut away in my little room waiting for missionaries to collect their mail and the new missionaries to collect their bedding but in between I like going outside and taking photos, lots of photos. In fact December Transfers I must have took and posted on Face Book about 80 photos. That has all changed now. In a recent training meeting the Mission Presidents were told (amongst other things of course) that anyone who is still holding transfer meeting, to stop! So bye, bye to our transfer meetings and I thought bye, bye to my photos. At January transfers the missionaries had to catch buses to their next area and the bus station is just around the corner from the Mission Office. All the missionaries leaving from Hamilton came into the bus station to travel either north to Auckland or South. That was in the morning. In the afternoon all those travelling from afar came into Hamilton to either stay or catch another bus. I was there in the morning and I have to admit it was fun especially as I had my phone/camera with me. I didn’t take as many photos as normal but that was okay.

 

That’s all about me but what did Elder Saunders do on transfer day? Well two of the missionary Sisters were going into a flat that was occupied by two Elders. They said that they had tidied it and it was quite tidy but it was very dirty. So with the help of two other missionary couples they cleaned the flat up. In the meanwhile after I had finished playing at the bus station I was an actual companion to one of the missionaries until she picked up her new companion. Then we all travelled to Coromandel. That is such a beautiful part of the country although the roads are very windy but this sister is a good safe driver so shell will do good.

So while Elder Saunders was grafting away at the flat I was having so much fun in the company of these two sisters.

Roll on next transfer day and just in case you didn’t know.

Welcome to your new home sisters.


FEBRUARY TRANSFERS IS OUR LAST TRANSFERS ON OUR MISSION IN NEW ZEALAND!

Now what have we here?

 

 Oranges? No lemons and all for me.