Finding Lost Luggage and Getting to Know President Brown

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I hope these last weeks of July are treating everybody well, we had some good cooler weather here in Lyon the last couple of days, so that was really nice, we didn't wake up in pools of sweat like before! This week was transfer week, and so therefore, was completely nuts for the office elders. The sending off process for the departing missionaries went smoothly, given that we were sending about 25 missionaries home, all things considered, so that was a blessing, we got more sleep than normal, no all nighters this time. However, the incoming missionaries were a little bit more difficult. Due to some random flight miscommunications, half of the baggage for the incoming missionaries was lost in transit. This led to a hectic 48 hours, a lot of calls to a delivery company, a lot of missed deliveries, and finally a crazy road trip with me driving a very large van rather quicker than normal so as not to miss the deadline to a warehouse to get them all ourselves. But all turned out well, and we had a blast doing it, crazy situations are fun to laugh at, so it was a fun two days! 

The best part was still seeing all the new bleus get their trainers, so much excitement in one room, and so many hugs going on at one time. Tons of fun! we had a second transfer bleus conference on Thursday, and Friday was free, so we really enjoyed having a normal quiet day to frantically try and catch up on all the spreadsheets that changed with all the changes for the transfer. Overall a fun week. It was really neat to see President Brown go through his first experience with all the new missionaries, how he was just so happy, and how strong the spirit was when he was presenting to them for the first time. He was so powerful in explaining what our purpose is here in declaring the good news, it was almost like coming back and being a bleu again, even for us and the older missionaries there. It was wonderful, I'm really glad we have him as our mission president, the mission is going to grow a lot under his leadership, I'm sure of it.