Happy New Year!
We had very different Christmas and New Years celebrations this year. Just not quite the same when you have a meeting with your assistants on New Years Eve 😄. It was wonderful having our son, Chance, here with us, though. The first of our children to visit. He helped make our house feel like a home 😊. We were also able to take a couple of vacation days and visit Moorea. What a beautiful island. We actually felt like tourists!
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Looking across the pool at our hotel on Moorea...no we didn't get to stay in those little huts.
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We also intertwined missionary work with touring Tahiti. We went to the south end of the island, Taravao, and had interviews with the zone of missionaries in the morning and toured the Presqu'
île ("Almost Island"...that is the name of the small southern peninsula of Tahiti) in the afternoon. It is the first time we've been able to see all of that part of the island and it is beautiful.
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| The west side of the Presqu'île. This is where the big surfing competitions happen in the summer. |
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| On the east side of the Presqu'île. |
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| Found some waterfalls on the drive up the east coast of Tahiti. |
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| Again along the east coast of Tahiti. |
Another adventure we had while Chance was visiting was going on a Jeep tour across the middle of the island of Tahiti. Everyone lives along the outside of the mountain so there is only a rough road across the middle. You can only access it all with a 4x4.We saw a lot of waterfalls and beautiful foliage. It takes 7-8 hours, starting and finishing in Papeete, to traverse the island
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| Our jeep for the trip across Tahiti. |
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| One of the best waterfalls we saw up close. |
Having Chance here gave us the excuse to play tourist. We really enjoyed getting to know our island home more completely.
Chance has left and we are now back to doing missionary work full time. (8 hours of interviews today!) We enjoyed our holiday, learned a lot about our home here and felt the love of family and friends from afar.
We hope you have a wonderful, joyous 2018...filled with God's love.
Love you all!
