Out with the old...in with the new!

It's always hard to say good-bye and on March 19th another set of fabulous missionaries went home....where does the time go?? Elders McFarlane, Carroll, Wirthlin and Haddow left us and made it safely back to the states by midnight on Wednesday. We will miss these fine young men and the service they gave in Romania!

However, at the same time we welcome a wonderful new group of excited new missionaries straight out of the MTC! New to our mission is Elders Collier, Foote, Hale, Rakozy, Anderson, and Smith. (This gives us three "Smith's" and three "Anderson's"!) Also, we welcome Sora Ertel, Sora Cannon and Sora Poulsen. They came tired but ready to go to work.

The next morning after the missionaries arrive we meet them at Cismigiu Park, read the dedicatory prayer and welcome them to Romania. We then take them to our home where we do an orientation meeting and President Ashby does interviews to determine where the Lord wants each of the missionaries sent. Of course we feed them a good lunch and then its on to Transfer meeting and the beginning of their Service. In this photo, Elder Anderson and Elder Collier go over their incoming-packet. They can't wait to begin!

Elder Rakozy plays the piano on the day he and these new missionaries arrive. We loved his compositions!