From the Mission Blog: Outgoing and Incoming Missionaries

Outgoing and incoming missionaries in the California Riverside Mission

...Later that evening, we welcomed Sisters Preator, Flores, Lee, and Kaiser; Elders Mills, Lai, Muathe, and Tran. Three additional elders—Elders Davis, McInnes, and Ngatuvai—had previously arrived from Nicaragua. We took the ones who arrived on Tuesday evening to the Mission Home to enjoy a chili verde meal and Tres Leches cake. Delicious! The sisters stayed the night, and the elders dispersed to the zone leaders’ apartments.

Elders Briggs and Sorensen (Assistants); Sister Kasier, Sister and President Hammon;
Sisters Preator, Lee and Flores; Elders Muathe, Mills, Lai, Acadia missionary, Tran;
and Sister and President Wells (Arcadia Mission)

The next day, we all gathered at the Mission Office and learned about Mission goals, focuses, rules, housing, finances, mission rules, cars, bikes, health and hygiene, and other Mission details. After lunch, I assigned them to their companions, listened to their beautiful testimonies, took pictures with Sister Hammon and me and with their companions, and sent them out to preach repentance and baptize converts. They are going to do spectacular! 

Hermanas Flores (new, going to Costa Rica) and Tonini

Missionary work continues to flow! With tears of joy and sadness, we watched missionaries go home, knowing they will be in good hands and are ready to embark on a new phase of life. It is definitely going to be the transfer of their lives. Then, we are able to see the missionaries enter the mission field, ready, eager, filled with a bit of trepidation, yet simultaneously filled with a sense of wanting to serve the Lord and become an instrument in His hands. They will—with the help of the Lord, the Holy Ghost, their companions, members, family, and friends.

And we march on…..