Amazing Week

This was a full week. We had to made two trips to West Palm Beach early in the week to arrange to get the water turned on in a new apartment by Wednesday. We attended a wonderful Transfer Meeting on Wednesday. About 80 missionaries were standing and singing "The Army of Helaman" when the 15 new missionaries (7 Elders and 8 Sisters) and their trainers walked into the chapel. The spirit was so strong. One of the trainers, Sister Magnusson, was signing to her new deaf and mute companion throughout the meeting so she could understand what was being sung and said. It was amazing to meet this new Sister and feel of her spirit. Missionary work is challenging, but to take it on with so many personal challenges is truly amazing.

President Hale asked Elder Black to train the other Senior Couples on how to work with the YSA branches so we had a meeting on Friday afternoon. The Assistants were their to give their input and the training went well. We also trained the missionaries in the Homestead branch on YSA Saturday morning. Sunday was a full day attending a missionary correlation meeting, Branch Council and the block meetings. Elder Black also taught the Gospel Principles lesson. During the lesson on the Creation, he was talking about the marvels of the human body and told them about the dissected nerves displayed at Ryan's medical school and also mention how long it took him to get through pre-med, med school and residency. One of the cute sisters raised her hand and hopefully asked, Is he still single?. She was quite disappointed when we told her he was happily married with 5 children.

We have another full week ahead of us with YSA training of the missionaries in the Miami Zone tomorrow, three days of apartment inspections and Sister Black will be attending a Sisters Conference on Friday. By the way, we finally got our car back from the body shop on Saturday and it looks great.