January 2013

January 2013 brings a bright new year to New York. We had a wonderful specialty training meeting for our sister missionaries. Each sister younger or older adds so much to our mission. We are so lucky to have each and every one of them here with us!!

We talked about being 100% wrapped up in missionary work and giving 100% in all that  you do. Then we gave each sister a different color of pashmina scarf to "wrap" up with.

Transfers came again this month with a new group of exciting young Elders and Sisters. We are continually blessed to receive these amazing young men and women here.

Elder Sato, Elder Holbrook, Elder Mason, Elder Staheli, Elder Mitchel, Elder Cox, Elder Strebe, Sister Campbell, Sister Chan, Sister Dalley, Sister Barker, Sister Awerkamp, Sister Crawford, Sister Beatty, Sister Ngosha, Sister Oluwalana, Sister White

Sister Taylor, Sister Asregadoo, Sister Alvarez, Sister Lui, and Elder Bowker all returned home this month. We are so blessed to have them as a part of our mission family.

Elder "Charlie's" (Bowker) Angels!!

December 2012

This month started out with a visit from Elder Paul and Sister Jill Johnson of the Seventy. We were lucky to have them visit our mission for a mission tour. They were so great to come and speak to all our missionaries about being a High Yield, Low Matainance missionary.  They both brought a wonderful spirit to our mission. It was a perfect way to start off the Christmas Season. We were even able to take all the couples to Rockefeller Center to see the huge tree on the plaza and also see the Rocketts!

Elder and Sister Johnson

We are so grateful for our wonderful Assistants. Elder Ward and Elder Fusco have become a part of our family.

Ryan will miss Elder Ward

Elder Ward as our own little Santa Claus

 

We then said goodbye to 5 wonderful missionaries. Sister Tuakalua, Sister Major, Elder Ward, Elder Anderson, and Elder Clark.

 We welcomed 4 new missionaries this transfer. Elder Longmore, Elder Hanson, Elder Garibay, and Sister Valdez.

We were thrilled to have Elder Hutchins as a new assistant to President Morgan. Elder Hutchins and Elder Fusco will bring great leadership and friendship to all of our missionaries!

On December 21, 2013 we had an all mission Christmas Party. It was wonderful to have every missionary together. We had a Christmas devotional and some of our very talented missionaries shared some beautiful music! We sang Christmas songs and ate a fabulous Christmas feast together. We love our missionaries and have loved getting to know each and every one of them in the last 6 months.

We are so blessed to have a large supportive family that made over 200 Christmas stockings and stuffed them with all kinds of goodies for our missionaries. Everyone loved their gifts and we appreciate the service given to us by each member of the Fisher Family!

The Power comes on in November 2012

WOW! 13 days without power has been a challenge. We even had a transfer during this time. 12 new missionaries came to the mission home and we gave them all a flashlight and told them to go find a bed to sleep in. Thank goodness for a crockpot that could cook dinner! The generator was such a blessing during all this; and we only had to wait in line for gasoline for about 1 1/2 hours to refuel the tanks. It will be a transfer that we won't forget. Testimony meeting by the fire and with candles was a special time.

Elder Griffiths, Elder Orellana, Sister Richardson, Sister Peterson, Sister Lancaster, Elder Golding, Elder Warner, Elder Meek, Elder Kerr, Elder Stokes, Elder Lee and Elder Vanner

Our first snowfall came on the night of transfers when 11 of our wonderful missionaries were headed home. The snow was beautiful, even without any power here. We love these valiant servants who weathered the storms of all their mission experiences.

Elder Nevarez, Elder Kropf,  Elder Meadows, Elder Miller, Elder Goode, Elder Richards, Elder Fairborne, Elder Wendel, Elder Lima, Elder Fontella and Sister Gao

The rest of November 2012 was spent in the clean-up from Hurricane Sandy. It was a great blessing for all of us to be able to go to the NYNY South Mission and help on many, many different days. Most of our time was spent in the Rock-a-Ways area of Long Island. The Wards and Stakes from our mission were able to give many hours of service in the clean-up.

NYNY North and NYNY South Missions UNITED! We love President and Sister Calderwood and their family who helped to organize this amazing and overwhelming effort!