The day before transfers are called out to the whole mission, we invite the new leaders to attend a leadership meeting. This time there were 6 elders and 2 sisters who were new. The assistants and a companionship of sister training leaders were there to do part of the training.
This transfer Glen felt inspired to call a third assistant. This is Elder Jordan, Elder Burbank (the new assistant) and Elder Lundquist.
For date night we hurried over to Legoland before it closed to get in a little exercise and to eat dinner at the restaurant we like there. Unfortunately, as happened last time we went there, the restaurant had just closed. UGH!!
No other place there appeals to us, so we left the park and went to Souper Salad to eat. For some reason Glen is convinced the grandchildren would like that restaurant. I keep telling him they would not.
After eating there, he had to agree with me. Unless the grandchildren want miniature ice cream cones to be their meal, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't like much else.
Glen found a way to get just a small amount of ice cream in the tiny cones. The machine would fill them too full for his liking.
We had the Del Mar stake conference meetings that weekend. We were invited to dinner with the stake presidency and their wives between the stake leadership council and the evening adult session. It is always a treat for us to be included in that meal. We spoke in the Sunday stake conference.
Sunday was Father's Day. After stake conference we had been invited to one of the ward mission leaders' home for dinner. It was a very lovely home with a beautiful back yard.
The man loves to cook and had invited a crowd for dinner. They had invited all the missionaries in the stake to dinner and put them to work preparing the food when they got there.
He even had one of the elders doing the grilling. There were meats of every kind. They were prepared to feed an army of people!
The cupcake Father's Day cake was aptly decorated for the occasion.
After dinner we all shared a memory of our fathers. That was tender and special. Then a gift bag was pulled out and each man there was given a new tie. I thought the card Glen got was so cute. It was signed by all the missionaries.
It was such a nice, relaxing couple of hours for us. I love it when we get fed. It makes me happy!!
Never much time for the weary to rest...
The next day Glen worked hard all day to get his letters done as we had the departing missionaries coming to our home to have dinner, testimony meeting and then to spend the night.
They are given a departing packet after our meeting and it is fun watching them go through the packet as they look at the photos of themselves that Sister Radford has collected.
We were surprised to get a gift basket from Lehi Roller Mills from one of the departing missionaries' family thanking us for taking care of their son the past two years. It was a very unexpected, generous and thoughtful gift.
The next morning we were up early and on our way to the temple where we went through a session and then posed for photos by the temple.
Then off to the airport we went to drop off the departing missionaries.
The assistants are now used to the drill we have established of eating lunch at Tom Ham's Lighthouse Restaurant.
With several hours to wait for the incoming missionaries to arrive, we drove around Balboa Park for a few minutes looking at the beautiful buildings.
We were back at the airport when the new missionaries arrived.
Back at the church Sister Radford had California burritos ready for the hungry travelers (and hungry assistants).
This incoming sister had arrived back in the mission after having gone home for surgery. We were so happy to have her back! And she was happy to meet her new companion.
The new missionaries received some instruction from the office couples. When their trainers arrived, Glen talked to them all for a few minutes and then assigned the trainers to their new companions.
Transfer #18 was successfully completed.
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