We are always happy to welcome new missionaries to our mission. We love waiting for them to arrive at the airport. People walking past us who have been on the same flight like to tell us they are coming! And how great they all are. It is fun to see them as we recognize them right away in their suits and dresses with their missionary name tags. We all greet with hugs and handshakes and lots of smiles. We then go to baggage claim retrieve their luggage and take it out to Elder Larson who is waiting with the trailer to load all the luggage. We often (President Peterson and I) then take a few missionaries with us to get the missionaries who are flying in from the CCM, the training center in Mexico. We then drive to the mission home for a Texas BBQ, all missionaries are interviewed by President Peterson and we have a testimony meeting then off to bed and back again the next morning for training and to meet their new companions.
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| Elder Larson |
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| Houston Temple |