On August 7th, 14 new missionaries arrived in the Tennessee Knoxville Mission! Sister Brown arrived on time from the Mexico MTC, but the other 13 missionaries from the Provo MTC were delayed and didn’t arrive until 2am on August 8th. Needless to say, it was a very long day of travel for them.
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This is a great group of missionaries! They will begin in the TKM with the following assignments:
| Missionary | Trainer | Area |
| Sister Brown | Sister Smith | Lebanon 2nd Branch |
| Elder Carley | Elder Clark | Grove Park Spanish |
| Elder Colunga | Elder Collins | Franklin |
| Sister Covington | Sister Angell | Signal Mountain |
| Elder Grant | Elder Harper | Dalton 2 |
| Elder Green | Elder Lewis | Watauga |
| Elder Hirst | Elder Staker | Ooltewah |
| Elder Kerby | Elder Preece | House Mountain |
| Elder McDonald | Elder Wilson | Powell Valley |
| Elder Morgan | Elder Scott | Rotherwood |
| Elder Potter | Elder Andrus | Jamestown |
| Elder Robbins | Elder Fisher | Loudon Spanish |
| Sister Rose | Sister Bird | Johnson City |
| Elder Speth | Elder Olson | Marion Branch |
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The departing missionaries made great welcome posters as part of the TKM Family Olympics!
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Because they arrived so late, we had a late start in the morning and weren’t able to do our typical orientation activities like going to the University of Tennessee campus to contact people.
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But the best part of Day 1 is always assigning the new missionaries to their trainers. These trainers are all terrific missionaries. I will forever be grateful for my trainer from the Hawaii Honolulu Mission, Garland Parris. Shout out to Elder Parris! Very few people have had the impact on my life that you’ve had. I will forever be grateful for you. We hope these new missionaries will feel the same way about their trainers.
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