Arrival Dinner, Orientation with the Office Couples, and Testimony Meeting

Dinner was great–Chicken cordon bleu, steamed beans, glazed carrots, funeral potatoes salad, and brownies and ice cream for dessert!  YUMMMM!The Senior Couples from the office and Sister Schilling, our Mission Nurse joined us.We had a minute or two before the meetings started again.Sister Schilling helps keep everyone healthy and happy.Sister Call is the Mission Secretary.  She takes care of proselyting supplies, phones and lots of other important things.Elder call looks after all the reports, numbers, referrals and mail.  He introduced the Royals, who will be taking the Calls place in May.Sister Pendlebury is our Finance and Housing specialist.And Elder Pendlebury is our Vehicle Coordinator.After their parts, I introduced our Lewis family, then the APs introduced the areas in our mission and talked about how the mission is organized into 7 stakes and 9 zones.  We talked a bit about each area.  During all this time, Pres Lewis has been interviewing each missionary.  When he was finished, we gathered in a circle and had a short testimony meeting before sending everyone to bed.The Elders slept down here and the Sisters slept upstairs.  They were so so tired.