I Hope They Call Me on a Mission Arriving Missionaries April 22, 2015

April 22, 2015--after an hour and a half delay…

they are finally here!  We gratefully welcome our

newest missionaries.  They even got to break in 

the new Arrival Hall at the airport--

First Greetings

Our newest missionaries

Luggage on the truck and off for the mission home

Welcome!
Elder Carrington, Elder Marano, Elder Reyes
Sister Villa, Sister DeGuzman, Sister Maroket
Elder Cloma, Elder Claudio

Words of counsel from the Departing Missionaries

Lined up and ready to go meet their first companion and trainer

April 22, 2015 Batch!
Elder Claudio, Elder Marano, Elder Carrington, Elder Reyes, Elder Cloma
Sister DeGuzman, Sister Maroket, Sister Villa


"First of all I would like to thank every missionary who has ever labored in this transcendent latter-day undertaking we have been given.  The rolling forth of the restored gospel is a miracle in every sense of the word….Clean, clear, bright-eyes missionaries, laboring two-by-two, have become a living symbol of this Church everywhere.  They themselves are the first gospel message their investigators encounter--and what a message that is.  Everyone knows who they are, and those of us who know them the best, love them the most."
                                                                                                                  Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"Joy in the lives of His children" Departing Missionaries

April 21-22, 2015

"God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children."  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

These two days saw the departure of 14 dedicated missionaries.  We watched them as they grew into powerful teachers and as they found joy in consecrated service.  The gospel light shines brightly in the Cauayan Mission because they were here.  Nagpapasalamat…we are all so much grateful!



Departure Fireside--
a chance to share testimonies one more
time in the field and to celebrate with 
friends who have become very dear.

Elder Mortensen

Elder Frank

Sister Leoncio and Sister Tenepere

Elder Young

Elder DeGuzman

Elder Thacker

Sister Murdock

Elder Stephenson

Sister Corsilles and Sister Villanueva

Sister Davis

Elder Tietjen

Elder Merza

Elders Tietjen and Mortensen
Sisters Teneper and Murdock

Dinner and Departure
Activities...

 …Like the traditional cutting of the
ties and cloth

Before

After!

Next morning it's time
to load the trucks and
go to the airport.

Love these missionaries!  

There are so many lives that

are better because you came...

Elders DeGuzman, Mortensen, Merza, Stephenson, President Rahlf, Elders Thacker, Frank, Young, Tietjen
Sisters Murdock, Davis, Villanueva, Sister Rahlf, Sisters Corsilles, Tenepere, Leoncio


"Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men"                                                                                                                                                                           2 Nephi 31:20
                                                                                                      

Meeting Again…Newest Missionaries and Trainers

April 8 10:00 AM

It's Reunion time for March 11 missionaries and their trainers.  They've been four weeks in the field, assigned all over the mission, and are back in to Cauayan for additional training and counsel.  After a month of real missionary work, they are coming to understand the effort and love it takes to be the Lord's missionaries…and that it is worth it!  President Rahlf shares this C.S. Lewis quote with them:

"Imagine yourself as a living house.  God comes in to rebuild that house.  At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing.  He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.  But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominable and does not seem to make any sense.  What on earth is He up to?  The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of--throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards.  You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace."

As missionaries, we learn how to lose ourselves in the Lord's work--to truly become instruments in His hands.  It's a learning process, but there is real joy as we learn to 

let go… and let God.  For "when we turn our lives over to the Lord, the power behind us is always greater than the obstacles before us."

March 11 Batchmates and Trainers

Companionships

Sister Fallejo and Sister Mu'amoholeva

                     

Elder Capulac and Elder Palas

Elder Relloma and Elder McCausland

Sister Albarico and Sister Pita

Elder Cebreros and Elder Tietjen

Elder Torio and Elder Franzuela

Sister Baldomaro and Sister Nonu

Elder Acosta and Elder Cabuenas

Elder Treyes and Elder Gatus

Elder Molate and Elder Vicente

Elder Gabelo and Elder Einfeldt

Sister Romano and Sister Glick

Sister Flores and Sister Ferguson

Sister Culis and Sister Edrington

Sister Ethington and Sister Elivera

Snapshots from the day

We are so grateful for these most recent missionaries and their willingness to serve.  There is a great journey ahead, and we are thankful to be walking it together.

"And verily I say unto thee that thou shalt lay aside the things of this world, 

and seek for the things of a better."

                                                                                                          Doctrine and Covenants 25:10