email from Sister Cotterell

Dear families of missionaries in the North Carolina Raleigh Mission,

We are thrilled to have welcomed your missionary to our mission! We received 19 new missionaries so it has been a very exciting and a very busy time!

Monday afternoon all of the missionaries arrived on time and with everyone's luggage intact. From there we took them all to the mission home for dinner, interviews with President Cotterell, a testimony meeting and dessert. After that everyone was ready for bed. All of the new Elders slept here in the mission home. We were full.

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 some of the things they need to know to be a missionary. From there everyone traveled 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 had some practice contacting and finally I served them lunch.

The transfer meeting began at 1:30. At this meeting all of the missionaries in the mission who are being transferred 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 on Tuesday 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 strength from each one of them and look forward to getting to know them individually, working and learning with them.

These are the missionaries, their companions and the area they are assigned to:

Elder Daines is serving with Elder Taylor of Kaysville, UT in Pittsboro/Siler City

Elder Dodge is serving with Elder Hafen of St. George UT in Cary

Elder Foster is serving with Elder Harmon of Nampa, ID in Laurinberg/Rockingham

Elder Humble is serving with Elder Torres of Salt Lake City in Durham

Elder Hunsaker is serving with Elder Hawkes of Sugar City, ID in Sanford

Elder Jacobson is serving with Elder Bradshaw of Ely, NV in Chapel Hill

Elder Jones is serving with Elder Butler of Lethbridge, AB in Goldsboro

Elder Lake is serving with Elder Childs of Grantsville, UT in Cary

Elder Loveridge is serving with Elder Furniss of Ogden, UT in Wilmington

Elder Maughan is serving with Elder Weichers of Apple Valley, CA in Smithfield

Elder Miller is serving with Elder Peterson of Idaho Falls, ID in Durham

Elder Raleigh is serving with Elder Chase of Ogden, UT in Burlington

Elder Ratto is serving with Elder Stewart of Walnut Creek, CA in Raeford

Elder Segundo is serving with Elder Christensen of Burley, ID in Knightdale

Elder Scott is serving with Elder Cline of West Jordan, UT in Pinehurst

Elder Tabil is serving with Elder Tolman of Weiser, ID in Leland

Elder VanDeren is serving with Elder Kopp of Lake Havasu City, AZ in Hope Mills

Elder Yankton is serving with Elder Guinn of Mesa, AZ in Burlington

Elder Young is serving with Elder Stowell of Rigby, ID in Cameron

Whew!

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. Emailing privileges are for immediate family only. 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 wont be able to email until Tuesday of that week. 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:

Missionaries 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, Federal Express 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 3-6 weeks.

Once again, it is a pleasure serving the Lord in the North Carolina Raleigh Mission with your missionary.

With love,

Sister Cotterell

North Carolina Raleigh Mission