RETURNING HOME TO OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

    A LONG LONG PLANE RIDE AND SEVERAL DELAYS BUT FINALLY HOME TO OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!!   

 JOAN'S CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN GATHERED TOGETHER FOR A FAMILY PICTURE AFTER MEETING AT THE AIRPORT FOR OUR WELCOME HOME

SAYING OUR GOODBYE TO OUR LOVED FRIENDS IN AUSTRALIA

THESE ARE A FEW OF THE PICTURES OF OUR FREINDS IN THE CAMPBELLTOWN AND INGLEBURN WARDS IN AUSTRALIA.







THE PAULOS, ALEXIS, NETTIE, ELI AND SHANE

                                     



                                      


      
                                            

ONE OF OUR
 FAVORITE LITTLE
MISSIONARY SISTERS
..SISTER NUNEZ
 FROM THE
PHILLIPINES!

GABRIELLE  AND ROSE TOTH

                                
                                                                    



                                                                                                       

       EMMA AND JANET CUTMORE                                                              

                                ELDERS AND SISTERS IN OUR ZONE WHOM WE LOVED!!

EMIL AND MARGARET BUNTER

 

 

PALELEI CHILDREN

SAIFITI FAMILY

                                   THE TUKUNGA FAMILY, DAVID, SERENTIY, MAKALA, FRANK AND AMELIA 



                                                                               

MONICA OUR FIRST PERSON WE HAD BAPTISED 

  THE INGLEBURN WARD MEMBERS           



    

                                

CAMPBELLTOWN WARD MEMBERS                                                                               

 
 
 
 
                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                  

MISSIONARIES AT WORK AND PLAY

Sister Nunuz and Sister Niebergall found themselves with a flat tire and with Elder Crawford and the manual they did it!!

We were at the Liverpool Zone meeting at the Prarie Wood Chapel.  A member cooked Samoan food for all of us to eat for lunch! The Zone leaders had given all of the missionairies a shirt that had in chinese 'Yo Ban Fa' which means 'I can do this' !  On the back of the tee shirt it said W O D standing for Worthy  Obedient   Diligent.

Baptism

 of Gabriella with Elder Shelton and Elder Moncho. Our district missionaries...Elder Ravsten, Elder Moncho, Elder Frietag, Elder Ah Fook, Elder Shelton and Elder Fietau

 

Senior couples having fun at Port Stephens and Nelson Bay! Jorgensens,Williams, Kohlerts, Barrs and us! We went on a Dolphin cruise and saw so many dolphins!

 The pathway up to the view of the whole area and then it gets bad!! Almost straight up for one

kilometer...thought I was not going to make it but I did!  Absolutely breathtaking! Goes along with that saying "It won't be easy but it will be worth it"!  Everyone I met on the trail kept telling me that. There were four of us that hiked up,,,,,,the other three were way ahead of me! This area is the Tomaree National Park and the hike ended at the Tomaree Headland.

View of Nelsons Bay and the backside view of the Bluffs of Tomaree and Yacaaba.

 

TROPICAL RAINFOREST AND KURANDA

We are off in a chartered bus to the Rainforest station. We are going to ride in a Duck boat which goes on land and water through the rainforest!

Staghorn Fern ....very slow growing...grows on another tree. We saw so many different ferns, trees, flowers and birds that we did not know the names of.  So many pictures to take but no room to share!

Aboriginal dancer....always painted with white paint! They dance to the digeridoo music! we then learn to throw the Boomerang.

BIRD WORLD....KURANDA

 Birdworld in Kuranda.  Alexandrine Parrots and Debbie has a Blue and Gold Macaw.  I thought I was being attacked...could be the food we were holding in a bag!! The red and blue bird is a Crimson Rosella. Debbie is in heaven with all these birds!

 

Black Cockatoo...never have seen one in the wild!

  Mandarin Ducks are so amazing and colorful...almost don't seem real! Below is a southern Cassowary the 4th largest flightless bird in the world.