Our wonderful new office couple arrived April 25, 2015.  We are so grateful for all that they do!  During our mission we have been fortunate enough to work with four amazing couples in the office.

These six great new missionaries arrived June 9, 2015. This group is significant, because it is the smallest group to arrive in over a year, and is the 27th and final group we have welcomed while we have been serving.

Here they are with their fabulous trainers.

 These terrific twelve arrived on April 28, 2015

Here they are with their awesome trainers.

 13 great new missionaries arrived March 17, 2015

They were matched up with their awesome trainers

We welcomed some great new missionaries on February 3, 2015 - 5 sisters and 3 elders. 

 Here they are with their wonderful trainers.

We welcomed this wonderful senior couple to the mission on November 10, 2014.
We wish we had ten more couples just like them!

Eight great new missionaries who arrived on Nov 4, 2014

Here they are with their trainers.

This sister was delayed, but finally arrived later and was lucky enough to have 2 trainers!

We welcomed 19 new missionaries on Dec 16th, 2014.

No, this is not a zone conference!  These are the new missionaries with their trainers. :)

 These great missionaries arrived September 30, 2014.

Here they are with their lucky trainers.

Here are our brand new missionaries, bravely trying not to melt in the August heat!

Here they are with their awesome trainers, ready to go off to their new areas. 

 This great group arrived July 8, 2014

 Here they are with their trainers.  It was a very windy day!

We welcomed eight great missionaries on June 3, 2014

 

Here they are with their trainers.

 We received 12 new missionaries on April 15. 

 For the first time since we've been here, the majority are Japanese.

 Our new group with their trainers.

 The first group in 2014!  These 25 arrived on Jan 21st.

 We received 9 great new elders on March 4. 

Its been more than a year since we've had a transfer with no sisters.

The March transfer with their trainers.

32 New Missionaries!

This wonderful group arrived December 10, 2013

Biggest transfer yet

We had 36 wonderful new missionaries arrive from the MTC on Tuesday evening.  After spending two nights at the mission home for training and orientation they received their first assignments and companions and departed on Thursday for their new areas.  The adventure begins!

 August 27, 2013 We received one new sister off-transfer.  We had been anxiously waiting for her to arrive, and she finally made it, after waiting for her passport for several weeks.

She was trained quickly and well by these two wonderful sisters.

 29 New Missionaries arrived in September.
This group can really sing - wish you could hear them!

Our newest group with their fabulous trainers.

We now have 161 missionaries in the entire mission, 114 of whom have been here less than six months.
(Do the math - that's about 70%!)

August 2013.  These are the newest missionaries, along with their trainers.  This group represents more than half of our missionaries!

August 2013. This is the largest group of new missionaries we have received to date.  There are 14 elders and 20 sisters!  We used every futon we have!

 A candid with an Assistant. This couple arrived in May 2013.

This couple arrived in April 2013.

We were happy to have these two new couples in our mission for a few weeks before they were both assigned to the new Tokyo South Mission in July.  They will be wonderful additions to that mission!

July 2013.  We were so pleased to be able to welcome these thirteen great missionaries from the Niigata Zone into our mission.  ( The extra two are the Assistants who came with us.) Niigata was formerly in the Sendai mission.  We have known the tallest one in the back since he was a little boy, so that was especially nice to say hello to him!