We are thrilled to have welcomed your missionary to our mission! We received 12 new missionaries and it has been a very exciting time!
Their flight on Monday arrived on time and with all of their luggage. After they arrived we took them to the mission home for dinner, interviews with President Cotterell, a testimony meeting and dessert. After that everyone was ready for bed. The elders all slept in the basement and our sister slept upstairs here at the mission home.
After breakfast on Tuesday morning, all of the missionaries were taken to the mission office to meet the office staff and to be oriented in someof the things they need to know to be a missionary. They were then taken to the Raleigh Stake Center to meet their trainers. This is a wonderful experience for them to meet the missionary who has been specially picked to train them and to set the course for them to have a successful mission. Everyone had pictures taken with President Cotterell and I, and then with their trainer. They learned about the new 12 week training for new missionaries and then I fed them lunch.
Our transfer meeting was also held at the Raleigh Stake Center. At this meeting all of the missionaries in the mission who are beingtransferred (about 1/4 of the mission this time) come to find out where they are going. They then leave for their new areas. Many of our new missionaries asked me what they would be doing when they got to their area onTuesday night. I assured them that they would get right to work with either teaching appointments or contacting.
It is a pleasure to serve with your missionary. We felt a great strength from each one of them and we look forward to get to know them individually, working and learning with them.
These are the missionaries, their companions and the area they are assigned to:
Elder Bush is serving with Elder Duran of Emeryville CA inSmithfield
Elder Curtis is serving with Elder Dunn of Logan UT in Wake Forest
Elder Ellingson is serving with Elder Ricedorff of Show Low AZ inDurham
Elder Eskelsen is serving with Elder Cerda of Nuevo Casas Grande MXin Raleigh
Elder Gonzalez is serving with Elder Taylor of Spring Creek NV inClinton
Elder Goodwin is serving with Elder Forsey of Peoria AZ in Cary
Elder Holle is serving with Elder Hewlett of Centerville UT in HopeMills
Elder Knott is serving with Elder Barroteran of Tijuana MX in Cary
Elder Mortensen is serving with Elder Peck of Highland UT inWilmington
Elder Sanchez is serving with Elder Fry of Layton UT in Durham
Elder Schafer is serving with Elder Bowes of San Tan Valley AZ inDurham
Sister Tillman is serving with Sister Johnson of Kaysville UT inDunn
Your missionary will fill in more details in their next email to you. Our preparation days are on Monday. They will look forward to an email from you at that time. They will use the same"myldsmail.net" address that they used in the MTC. Missionaries have a limited time to read and respond to emails. Be aware that most use computers at the public libraries. On holidays those libraries are usually closed so the missionaries aren’t able to email until later in theweek. We encourage you to write uplifting and positive letters that will help them to keep focused on the important work they are doing here.
All other mail should come through the US Postal system and be mailed to the mission office using this address:
Missionary’s Full Name (we have several with the same last name)
North Carolina Raleigh Mission
6508 Falls of Neuse
Suite 100
Raleigh, NC 27615
The day the mail is received it is forwarded on to your missionary. This can only be done if the mail is sent by First Class,Priority or Express mail. If you choose to use UPS, FederalExpress or parcel post mail it cannot be forwarded. Those items will get to your missionary, but they must wait at the office until someone travels to your missionary, which could be several weeks.
Once again, it is a pleasure serving the Lord in the North CarolinaRaleigh Mission with your missionary.
With love,
Sister Cotterell
North Carolina Raleigh Mission
President Cotterell, Elder Mortensen, Sister Cotterell
Elder Peck and Elder Mortensen
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