"Wondrous Woodside"...Now and Then

Elder Pickering and Elder Pickett, our District Leader, are happily still serving together. We are so proud of them. They achieved the mission goal of 21 investigator/member lessons in a week. They are a great match. We actually taught Claudia and Todd, (our neighbors) the Restoration this past week. Claudia is excited to read the Book of Mormon. Elder Rowley and (new to Woodside) Elder Nehmer are our Zone Leaders. Elder Rowley is training Elder Nehmer in this calling. They bring a wonderful spirit to our meetings as humble leaders. We welcome Sister Heininge, who began her mission last August. She and Sister Montano are a special duo, and are teaching and serving in the Woodside Spanish Ward. Lastly, Elder Norris is a new Trainer, to Elder Flores, a brand new MTC missionary. He is from El Paso, Texas, loves Mexican food, electronics, tennis, basketball, and football. We are sure he is in "NYC shock"... always smiling!

Our American Sign Language Sisters, Marshall and Fields, serve in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Long Island, generally in several areas of the mission with deaf investigators and members. We are just lucky that they share a pad with the Woodside Spanish Sisters and are considered part of the Woodside District.

Wondrous Woodside District..... how we were last week!

Elder Froerer, a rising star, is a new Trainer, (that means teaching a brand new missionary) in the Freeport Branch, Lynbrook District. His zone leaders are Elders Imlay and Wrigley and they are all good friends who lived at the same pad in Woodside. Our devoted Sister Thomas is serving in the Jamaica 1st Ward, Jamaica Zone, where we teach each Tuesday. The saints in Jamaica will be so happy to have her there with all of her talents. She is a fabulous piano player, and they need that blessing, and we will see her, hooray! Our Zone Leader, Elder Heiner was sent back to Brooklyn, where he left his heart! He leaves the mission in June, the week before we do and we know there is a great work for him to do there, because he truly gives his all wherever he serves. It's amazing to see our Woodside missionaries go out as leaders all over the mission. We are always very grateful to have known them well. We learn much having served with them.