Happy New Year

Happy New Year

What an amazing couple of months it has been.  Our mission theme for 2014 is “Mighty Miracles” and we have already seen sooo many!  I am including pictures of Zone conference in January and Zone conference in February.

We took a week off and went to training in Guam in January!  French Fries have never tasted so good.  We enjoyed friends, great food and wonderful training.  The

R & R of Guam is so needed every six months.  Thank you, President Mecham.

Our Seminary and Institute across the island is going great.  We have a regular attendance at our PICS High School of around 30.  The students are learning and we love them as our own.  They are so attentive and want to learn.  We have had 3 baptisms and several more that are waiting for parents permission.  We have between 4-8 non-members every day. 

Our seminary activity for Valentines Day was so fun!  We had about 65+ youth come and play games.  We laughed and giggled for several hours.  The kids on this island love to have fun.  If we could only do activities more often, the kids would so love it.

We had a wonderful Zone Conference with President and Sister Mecham.  Then the next day was Seminary Valentines Party.  Saturday evening we had 9 baptisms on the island.  What a great time to be a missionary on the beautiful Island of Pohnpei.  The field is white already to harvest and a mighty harvest we are having here.

We received the wonderful news that on March 16^th we will become a stake.  Our members are on fire!! We are all so excited! Just to think about a Patriarch on our island is just such fabulous news.  We are thinking over 1000 members will attend when are organized in March.

On February 15^th we had a District Youth Fireside that was fabulous.  Five of our youth spoke on Dress & Appearance, Friends, Entertainment & Media, Repentance & Sexual Purity.  The youth speakers did an amazing job. We had little videos from Mormon Messages in-between the speakers on their topic.  The youth were taught in their own language about God’s plan for them.  They understood!! We had probably around 175 youth in attendance.  Then President Mecham was in town and he concluded.  What a great weekend we enjoyed!! 

We continue to have tender mercies given to us every day on our mission.  We had no idea so many spiritual experiences would happen every day!  How grateful we are for them all.  Yesterday a prayer was answered immediately and it was a complete miracle for me.  God is in this work every day! 

We love and miss you all.  We added 3 new grandchildren in January and February.  We have been so blessed.

Beautiful Sunset in Kolonia

Micronesia Guam Mission Theme 2014

Ashley our sweet friend from Seminary

New Converts from new Group Pahleng

Papa was the last one baptized!  Happy Day for the Family!

Elder Tapua, Afualo, and Lyman with new converts

Elder Tapua and Elder Afualo

Elder Barrus and Elder Rice with new converts

Terrance from Seminary baptizing a friend

Happy Day for this Family! Sisters Roberts, Orrock, Elders Gardner and Johnson

Guam Couples Conference January 2014

Sister Fatongia saying goodbye to everyone

Elder Bunn enjoying P-day by the ocean

Role playing is an essential part of missionary work

Farewell Testimony Elder Bourne

Farewell Testimony Sister Beutler

Farewell Testimony Elder Madill

Open Your Mouth (and share the gospel)

Sister Missionaries with Sister Mecham

Sister Roberts are you photo bombing Sister Iaona and Sister Komra

Will you be my Valentine (Sister Roberts & Sister Orrock)

Zone Conference  "Mighty Miracles Wrought by Faith"

FHE at Jovonia's (How we love this family)

We love our seminary students so much!!

Scripture Mastery Anyone

Wallace an awesome awesome convert of a year!!

Elder Chandler, are you licking someone's ice cream?

The message race is on!!

This is harder than it looks!

Pass the heart with a straw.  So much fun!

Musical Hearts got wild!  When you lost you were in the Center!