Thursday 11/17/11

This past weekend we found out that Josh's grandfather on his mom's side passed away in Philippians. Josh's parents have left to P.I. for the funeral.


As for Josh and I, we do have some sad news- our good news that was mentioned in last blog entry- is now not happening. Thank you to all who have given your support and encouragement it has been a great help.


For those of you who have questions about what I have been writing about or read my blog, please come to us for any questions you have and not my parents-we don't live with them and you should be getting any information from the source.


Josh and I would also love to hear from all who do read this, it's nice to know whats going on with everyone else in the rest of the world.

Friday-11/4/11

We have moved into Josh's parents place this past weekend and are settling in there for the time being. My apologies for not keeping in touch with ones(you know who you are),with moving and everything else it's been crazy busy. 


For those of you who have heard our good news-yes it is true but we don't know much yet, so be patient. Once we have details we will post them along with the good news. 


Recently we found out that some friends of ours that had moved here for construction/need-greaters, are moving to a new assignment. they are going to work on the branch in Myanmar(the country) for possibly 2 years! we are sad to see them go but know that they will enjoy it. They have to sell everything since the government is strict and will only allow them to bring what they can pack in-no shipping stuff allowed. we hope to keep in touch with them and hear their stories of how the new adventure will go.


Also for those of you wanting to know more of Guam and Micronesia, on the side you will notice links for some other blogs done by friends here, so you can see a better glimpse of life and ministry here.

special assembly day

About 2 weeks ago we had our Special Assembly Day with about 1,000 in attendance. It was very encouraging and so nice to see the ones from the different halls.

Josh and Ava (and uncle Keith on the phone)

Jasmine, Me and Ava
(by the way she is not our kid but the resident congregation baby that just looks like she could be ours)

So sorry for not posting more recently but we are in the middle of moving (have to be out by the end of this month). Our place echos now, we moved all our furniture into storage. I will try to post more after we move, since at my in-laws we will have internet!

Miss you all and hope to hear from you.

underwater world

 

On Saturday after work Josh took me to one of the local attractions i had not been to yet-Underwater World. It is mostly a 

 tube that you go through and are surrounded by the ocean and sea creatures, it's very serene.

rock fish

can you find the fish?

We have made the decision to move out of our place and to temporarily move into Josh’s parents place to save money while we try to get into this new place we found. This other place won’t be finished till February we think and is smaller and cheaper as well as being closer to work, which would help since we share a car.  For those of you who don’t know the currant place we are in is great but way too big for us, it is 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with big living room, kitchen and dining room.  For our first place it has been a great starting point in our newly married life.

So our mailing address will stay the same and there is internet at his parents, so for anyone wanting to Skype or video chat let us know it will be easier then.

We are still managing to survive in the congregation with so many gone, our meetings feel so empty. We hope the ones gone are enjoying their vacations, but we miss them dearly.

At my new job it has been really nice because I get to see the different friends from all over the island and have met some of the new ones that have moved here, so it brightens my day.  Some days after work I have sometimes to kill before I pick josh up from work so I will go down to the park at the beach and study or read. Below are some pictures where I go.

Also on Sunday nights many from the different halls play basketball. We went on Sunday but not many were there-I think most were playing soccer.

this park is also where we have some of our congregation parties

last weekend-movie night

Just wanted to say hi and share a couple of pictures from last weekend. Not much is going on here other then our hall has been super empty since a few of the bethel couple have gone back to the states to visit family and attend the annual meeting. we all miss them so much! And our meetings are so empty! The only good part is I get to help take care of a study and few calls for a sister that is gone for a month:)
Actually last week we had a nice experience in service. Our last door of the morning (isn't it always), 4 kids were out playing in the yard when I drove up, so the other sister jumped out to talk with the mom as she came out. Her and the other sister with us had a nice conversation and started a study in the bible teach book. While they were talking the childeren all came over to me very curious and asking many questions-the 2 oldest are only 5 and the other 2 are 4 and 3 i believe. they asked me many questions and started pulling stuff out of my field service bag. I gave them the brochure on you can be go'd friend-the older boy looked at me and asked," you are god's friend?" and I said, "yes and you can be too". He then pointed at the cover with all the people in the picture and asked, "is that god?" I laughed and said know he lives in heaven, he walked away with a puzzeled look on his face. so I prmised to come back with books for them and read to them.
today i was able to stop by and leave them the books and set up to study with the mom and the kids (since the sister is gone). i will let you know how it goes!


We went over a brother in our hall's house for a movie night. It was fun and encouraging to associate with different ones in our hall.

Hope all is well on that side of the globe!

prepping for burgers

projection 3-d of under the sea!

Sorry i have not written lately, not much exciting going on here. getting over being sick and also finishing up my job at payless to work now only at infusion coffee and tea. for those of you who didn't know about my job change this is it- i changed jobs because i missed working in food service and it is same pay and same amount of hours.
weather has been super rainy so everyone here has been sick, but it has been keeping things a bit cooler thankfully.
hope all is well with you all.please email!