CVM and MLC

The California Ventura Mission Target for this transfer is

 "The Sabbath Day is a Delight" Isaiah 58:13. As we live and love the Sabbath day, teaching about this sacred day will be more meaningful and it will be understood by the Spirit. Study what the Sabbath day represents and how we can improve our Church experience on Sundays and our personal Sabbath day worship. 

MLC 10/13/15

Because of the meal fast (no meals from members or investigators or restaurant eating) this past week, one of the questions at the beginning of MLC was "What was your favorite meal you have eaten since the member fast? "  Also,  "What was your favorite talk from General Conference? "

Time was spent reviewing lesson 3 in Peach My Gospel. Five missionaries gave five minute talks on faith, repentance,  baptism,  Holy Ghost,  and enduring to the end. 

President Felix provided training on the Sabbath day and the Assistants led an EDPEP on Sabbath day observance so investigators will realize the importance of it.

 Elders Yager and Young

 Front: Elders Powell, Leavitt, L. Gregory, Deem, Elkington, 

M. Gregory, Chatterton,  Haines

Back:  Dorius, Gibb, Boyce,  DeCosta, Kuepper,  Snyder, Wickern,  Ruby

 Front:  Sister Rasmussen,  Hermanas Brown, Cuevas, Griffes, Sisters Wilson,  Coombs 

Back:  Sister Hunsaker,  Hermanas Clark, Jeronimo, Hurley, Sisters Dearden, Reneer

 We were in Santa Maria for interviews today.  We had them at the Oak Knolls building because the stake center was getting fumigated. This is how it is done in California.

Departing Missionaries 10/7/15

After having lunch the 20 missionaries were at the mission home "chilling."

Charades, name that tune or pictionary...

Sisters Angimarau, Boring, Brown, Hermanas Wallace, Newland, Shepherd, Sisters Hiapo, Woodland, Olsen

Elders Davidson, Bautista, Lopez, Robinson, Forson, Stout, Hortin, Navarrete, Cantrell, Bartholomew, Waite

Transfer 10/6/15

The following are pictures of the new missionaries with their trainers.  There are so many I decided to combine companionships for the pictures.

Elders Endicott, Mulford and Elders Corbridge, Huston

Elders Brown, Campbell and Elders Wayment, Bailey

Elders Valladares, Taufatofua and Elders Herrera, Mata

Elders Peterson, Piesley and Elders Hurst, Allison

Sisters Coulon, Israelsen and Sisters Harrison, Wing

Elders Dort, Haney and Elders Brown, McClane

Hermanas Kneip, Soriano and Hermanas Eames, Wright

Sisters VanDerWatt, Orme and Sisters Campbell, Thompson

Sisters Houseman, Giambattista and Sisters Bosshardt, Evans

Sisters McClure, Scoresby and Sisters Ulassin, Baird

Hermanas Ames, Young and Hermanas Scott, Miller

Hermanas Mulloy, Huey and Sisters Murphy, Beatty

Elders Strom, Bradley and Elders Davis, Magoon

Elders Hunt, Reed and Elders Weiss, Bradler

Sister Tufts and Alexander Tufts, Elders Elliott, Stewart

Elders Levis, Lamb, President Felix

Elders Deem, Leavitt, Gregory, Gibb, DeCosta, Snyder

Elders Goad, Santos

Sisters Coombs, Reneer, Barnes, Lambert

Elders Gruwell, Hager

Elders Slaugh, Morwood, Sister Olsen

I wish the lighting was better on this picture.  Sister Stewart was being funny as she had to drive the van back to the rental place.  It was a 12 passenger so a little bit bigger than what she is use to driving.

New Arrivals 10/5/15

Six missionaries arrived from being at the CCM in Mexico.  They arrived early. Fortunately President Felix was there with a rental van.  Sister Felix drove in the car but was low on gas so had to stop for fear of not returning back to Ventura without running out of gas.  The Assistants had the mission van, the Floyds and the Stewarts drove the other two rental vans.  It was disappointing for me not being at the airport as the missionaries arrived.  

Elder Bradler

Elder McLane

Elder Peisley

Hermana Scott

Hermana Kneip

Hermana Wright

The rest of the missionaries (we thought) arrived about a half hour later.  Most left to go to the park for dinner but Sister Stewart had taken a count and realized the visa waiters were not there.  We were missing three missionaries.  Missionary travel was suppose to be closed at that time.  President was finally able to contact someone at missionary travel and found out the visa waiters had received their visas and they would be flying to Tawain the next day.  So it's not just that three missionaries didn't come; that meant three missionaries assigned to be trainers would not have the opportunity to train for this transfer.  So the tender mercy, which shows the Lord is in charge, one of the visa waiters was going to be in a tripan (three missionaries as companions), the other two were going to be serving with two missionaries that would be living in the same apartment serving in two different wards.  Those two missionaries are now companions and will cover two wards.

Sister VanDerWatt

Sister Baird

Sister Houseman

Elder Strom

Elder Brown

Elder Hunter

Elder Allison

Elder Endicott

Elder Huston

Sister Campbell

Sister Murphy

Sister Bosshardt

Sister McClure

Sister Coulon

Elder Wayment

Elder Davis

Sister Wing

Hermana Ames

Elder Valladares

Elder Mata

Elder Harrison

Hermana Mulloy

Elder Haney

Sister and Brother McIntosh have been released from serving a mission here but have moved to Santa Barbara and are still very willing to help us with having food ready for the arrival of the missionaries.

Elder Elies and Elder Millar on the left joined in eating with us prior to catching a flight headed for Austrailia where they will continue serving.  We were fortunate to have them with us this past transfer.

The missionaries are so tired from very little sleep and traveling.  Our desire is that they will have experiences this first day that will make good memories.

The missionaries all said "I'm committed!"

The sun is setting.  It was beautiful!

While waiting for the Assistants to do some training all the missionaries filled out a questionnaire that we keep in a book.

Breakfast on Tuesday morning prior to going to the Ventura Stake Center for orientation from the Senior Couples and participating in the transfer meeting.

These missionaries are from:

Idaho - 5

Utah - 13

Oklahoma - 1

Indiana - 1

California - 1

North Carolina - 1

Texas - 1

Montana - 1

Missouri - 1

Canada - 1

Oregon - 1

Nevada - 1

Honduras - 1