Sister Leavitt has arrived in the OEM! - June 8, 2017




Dear Parents,
Your missionary has arrived safe and sound in the Oregon Eugene Mission – the greatest mission on earth.   Her companion is Sister Datwyler, and they are assigned to serve in Corvallis.
Her mailing address is 1136 NW Alder Creek Dr.  Corvallis, OR  97330 for at least 6 weeks.  The mission office address is always an option as transfers can happen as often as every 6 weeks.  The mission office address:  55 W 29th Ave, STE A, Eugene, OR 97405.  Just remember that only first class and priority mail can be forwarded.  
You will be interested in our mission blog.  The website is: http://oemrussell.blogspot.com/
Thank you for sending this wonderful missionary.  We look forward to serving with her.
~ Sister Jensen
Mission Secretary


One of the first orders of business was to get a picture in front of the mission home with the newest missionaries in the best mission ever: the OEM.
Sister Marin, President & Sister Russell, Sister Mousser, Sister Hawkes, 
Sister Fiagle, Sister Allred, and Sister Leavitt.

 This is one extremely happy group of missionaries!!!


Our newest missionaries in the Oregon Eugene Mission
Sister Mousser, Sister Hawkes (apparently blinked), Sister Marin, Sister and President Russell, 
Sister Fiagle, Sister Allred, and Sister Leavitt.

Once that excitement is over the Sisters meet the office senior missionaries. Each of these senior missionaries have a responsibility and they explain what they do to the Sisters.

This is the most fun at transfers, when the new missionaries meet their trainers!
President Russell calls up the trainer and shows a picture of the area they will be serving in and then announces who she will be training.
Sister Leavitt and Sister Datwyler

It was a gorgeous  day here in Eugene as we picked up these beautiful Sisters 
from the airport.
Left: Sister Fiagle, Sister Hawkes, Sister Allred, Sister Mousser, Sister Marin, 
and Sister Leavitt. 

You can also see Elder Cronin (one of the president's assistants) and President Russell putting their suitcases in the truck. Elder Hill, the other assistant is just outside the frame to the right. Sorry, Elder Hill.

Sister Danley is our nurse. She, like all the office senior missionaries, is quite busy! She tells the Sisters about how to stay healthy and happy, She will be the one to call if they get sick or need to go to the doctor. She also passed out the emergency bags the Sisters are keep supplies if they have to leave in a hurry. 

Elder Danley is our apartment coordinator. He makes sure all the apartments are safe, they all have what they need in their apartments. He also makes sure their fire and CO alarms are working well. I almost forgot, he also handles the bikes. But since none of these Sisters have bikes, he was off the hook this transfer,
Elder Bullock is the financial missionary. He handles any problems with their support cards. He also takes care of paying rent, etc. for the mission.

Sister Bullock is our referrals secretary. Whenever she receives a referral she makes sure it gets to the proper missionaries. Often missionaries will give her referrals for other parts of the United States and the world. In addition to that she takes care of the mail. 

Elder Jensen (in training) Served in the MTC
with Elder John & Sis Gloria Erdmann

Sister Jensen (in green sweater, also in training) Served
MTC with Elder John & Sister Erdmann





Elder Mabey, who is training Elder Jensen is the vehicle coordinator. He takes care of the all the cars and makes sure all missionaries are driving safely with the TIWIs. He also takes care of their phones.
Sister Mabey is the office secretary and  is training Sister Jensen, she let Sister Jensen sit this first time out. 
She handles the baptismal records, and various other office duties.






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE CALL TO DUTY!

Image
Sister Kiera Leavitt has always wanted to serve a mission! Kiera was blessed as an infant to serve a mission and her Patriarchal Blessing mentions several times about serving a mission.  When the age for girls was lowered, Kiera was ready to go even though she was still years away from age eligibility! She has planned and worked for it intently over the last 3 years.  She set a goal to finish Cosmetology school after graduation from Snow Canyon High School in May 2016.  She very seldom missed a day of school because she knew that she would have to make it up and that would extend her time further to be finished as well as possibly costing her more money if she happened to go over her time limit (in which she never even came close to! But she wasn't going to take any chances!) Kiera graduated from Hairitage Hair Academy in November 2016. Her plan was to work about 6 months so that she would have enough money to support her own mission.  So off to work at Fanta...
Read more

Blow The Door Off- March 15, 2018

Image
Zone Temple Trip Family and Friends!  Lots to catch you up on. Hope I can remember everything I did. We have stayed super busy and we are not slowing down. This transfer is just flying by.  So on the 6th we had MLC. Which stands for Missionary Leadership Council. It was my first time going and it was so much fun!!! So many of my past companions were there, like Sister Allred and Sister John! We were able to council all togther of how to help the mission improve and what things we can do. What a huge blesisng it is to see that side of missionary work!  Sister Allred & Sister Leavitt One part I really loved about MLC was goal setting and planning. We talked about how we as missionariesare are really good at setting goals and making plans but we need to have a vision. It's the process of what why and how.  Vision --- why  Goals ---- what  Plans ---- how  A quote they shared that I really loved was "Leadership is the capa...
Read more

Zone conference! Sept 19, 2017

Image
Dear Family and Friends!   This week was such a spiritually uplifting week. On Thursday we went to zone conference where Elder Scott D Whiting and Elder Adilson De Paula Parrella of the seventy came and spoke to us. They allowed us as missionaries ask what ever questions we might have.  Some things I really enjoyed from the talks was  "it's only after pondering that you receive revilation" we need to practice pondering so we allow the things we learn to sink in and allow revilation to come.  Have you ever been in a conversation where someone talks to you and asks you for advice or questions but they don't allow you time to answer or talk?  Are we allowing the time in our prayers for Heavenly Father to answer us or are we just asking and interrupting because we keep talking?  "make a focus on one thing. Making a focus on many this is not having a focus at all." This was one thing I really appreciated hearing because sometime I try and fo...
Read more