Sunday, December 4, 2022

November 28th-December 4th

Missionaries on Thanksgiving day after the feast. ๐Ÿฆƒ๐Ÿ˜‹๐Ÿฆƒ
Met up with our friends from Ivins (but they've moved) on Monday afternoon. Travis and April Hill. Their tour guide is in the middle. So fun to see them!! Hung out with them for about an hour, then they went into the luau.  Then we had dinner with 4 other couples in the "Marketplace".
                                                  Mi'i showing us how to open coconuts. Yum! 
Had a yummy shrimp dinner with Dennis and Patti. Friends from back home! So great seeing them!                                                             Patti's two sisters were with them. 
Beautiful rainbow over the ocean. Wish the darn power lines weren't in the way!
                                              Beautiful Christmas tree at the Visitor Center. 
       These hearts, and 1 sea shell, are from the ocean that we found at "our" beach. I love hearts!! ❤️
                    Dinner with these missionaries after volunteering at the luau Saturday night.
                                At church today we met LoriAnn who lives in Ivins 10th Ward!                                                                                We love meeting people from back home! ๐Ÿ˜€
                                   Just walked over and took this picture! So so beautiful! ❤️
We had our "Break the Fast" tonight. Lots of yummy food! Then we sang the goodbye song to these                                        Missionaries who are leaving this month. It's been a great week! ❤️

Sunday, November 27, 2022

November 21st-November 27th

Put up our little Christmas tree. ๐ŸŒฒ
Visitor Center. ❤️๐ŸŒฒ❤️
Another room in the Visitor Center. 
                                             Looking inside the Visitor Center from outside. 
                         Our boss Mi'i is showing us how to cut up sugar cane. We all tried some.                                                                          (It was ok, but didn't really taste like sugar.)
We were at the PCC in this picture over by the big canoe named "Losepa" (this is Hawaiian for Joseph) 
This morning some of us from "the farm" came over and added plants around it because President Eyring was coming and we wanted it to look extra nice! 
 President Eyring looking at the canoe. 
President Eyring riding around the PCC. So fun we got to see him! ❤️
This is another picture of the canoe at the PCC. It's a double hull canoe. It's a replica of the early canoes Polynesians used to first get to Hawaii centuries ago. 
Tuesday was our town run and we had 13 stops. Our van was packed! I wanted to take a picture of these cute ukuleles that we picked up. 
These three are new missionary's. They now work with us at the farm. 
This cute girl comes on Wednesdays and helps us.
        
Today is our Anniversary! ๐Ÿงก
We helped at the farm and then went and picked up these beautiful poinsettias for the PCC. We were supposed to pick them up yesterday on our town run, but our van was too full, so we went this morning! 
Drove over to Ted's Bakery and got garlic shrimp and a piece of pie for our anniversary dinner! We're so blessed! We sure love each other and will forever! ❤️
Had a big gathering with a lot of other Missionaries! ๐Ÿฆƒ Missing my family! ๐Ÿงก Yummy food! ๐Ÿ˜‹

Tonight, Thanksgiving, we went over to the BYUH campus to the Ballroom and had a wonderful program representing the different Islands and honoring the early Pioneer Missionaries of the Pacific. Told us some history, showed us some pictures, and sang and danced for us. They said they knew we were missing our families and wanted to do this for us. It was awesome! ๐Ÿงก                                   (Here's some pictures we took.) 
This is a picture of some high school football fans lining the streets and cheering their team on is they go to play for the State championship tonight.   Our neighbors put up these flags by our apartment.
Tahiti-They cooked sweet potatoes in the ground and gave us each a taste. We spent a little time at the PCC today. We've been there many times now, but each time we've seen new things. Love it! 
Also danced for us.
The musicians. 
Amazing Christmas concert Saturday night at BYUH! 
   Another wonderful week in Paradise! We work about 40 hours a week, and it can be exhausting, (because we're old๐Ÿ˜˜), but we have lots of free time to have fun and to enjoy this beautiful place! ๐ŸŒด

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