Ecce homo

This week was awesome. We started off by discussing and finishing up plans for transfers on Monday. Then on Tuesday we left very early to take the train to Schiphol and get everything set up at the Sheraton in advance of the new missionaries. We then went to meet them and the APs and President and Sister Robinson in the airport and helped with luggage out of the main hall into the overpass and into the hotel. There were 11 new missionaries, and they are a great group. Elders Lyman and Robbins led the legal and financial orientations and gave them everything they needed to get started. Then we ate a buffet lunch, before heading off to Rijswijk to take the missionaries to the IND for legality. 

On the way back, there was a short delay, due to several trains being cancelled, but we got back to the hotel fine. Elder Lyman and I dropped by the office to make the first city letters and returned to the hotel. My companions departed for a teaching appointment while I stayed with the APs as the greenies napped. After dinner, President Robinson led a fireside/testimony meeting, and that was fun. That night I stayed in the hotel (and that was cool).

The next day, after breakfast, the assistants and president trained the new missionaries and then their trainers. After signing out of the hotel, we took the missionaries and their luggage back to Leiden for the final legal step: the city hall. Upon completion of which, they left by companionships for their cities. Next, we had to deal with the departing missionaries, of which there were only six, and they were better behaved (or just less excited).

The rest of the week was hardly busy at all. We did teach our two baptismal dates and a number of other appointments, but we managed to get our work mostly done. 

"The Larch. The Larch. The Larch."