Hello and Goodbye: Sweet Sorrow
15 April 2018 Saying goodbye —One of our two missionaries, Elder Masters, completes his 2-year mission in 9 days. It is always amazing the responsibility these young missionaries take on. He has been a Missionary District Leader (in charge of 10-12 young missionaries) for the past 4 months here in Tarbes. District Leader responsibilities include watching over his “flock” of 10-12 other missionaries, going on exchanges (2 missionary companionships pairing off with 2 different missionary companionships for the day), conducting interviews, filling out reports and a variety of other tasks needed to keep the missionary work running smoothly. He also makes trips to adjacent missionary areas coordinating exchanges with those Elders. He conducts a 2-hr long instructional meetings every 3 weeks for his peers (District Conferences). In addition to those duties, he is also a full-time missionary himself. When we arrived here, he was also serving as the 1 st counselor in the