tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68089408489667405602024-03-19T02:19:47.541-07:00Hursts in MicronesiaGrant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-46239440048066588432015-08-12T07:05:00.001-07:002020-10-14T14:29:59.074-07:00Korea, Land of the Morning Calm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">We took a flight from Fukuoka to Korea on T'way Air leaving around 12:00 noon and arriving in Seoul at about 1:30. We were very fortunate and pleased to find Song, a Korean exchange student that we hosted in 2011-2012, waiting for us at the airport. She looked so good and has grown up so much over the last three years. We enjoyed smoothies with her and then boarded a bus to Seoul. This took us longer than the flight from Japan and we arrived at the Hyundai Residence in Jung-gu around 4:00. After moving in we went exploring the neighborhood and found it full of motorcycle, pet and printing shops.</span></div>
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<br />Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-67495825406845922642015-08-12T02:56:00.002-07:002020-10-15T10:51:59.597-07:00Almost home!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
On our last evening in Guam, August 29, we had a lovely farewell dinner with President Zarbock and the wonderful Senior Missionaries with whom we have been serving. They are precious people and we will cherish our memories of serving with them forever.</div>
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Sister Hurst, Elder and Sister Guercio (Mission Medical), Elder and Sister Martin (Office), Elder and Sister Thomas (Military Relations), Elder and Sister Hamilton (new Office), President Zarbock, Elder Hurst. We departed early Thursday morning.</div>
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Our first stop on the way home was Osaka where we were met by Shigehiro and Michiko Sugimoto. They drove us first to Nara, the capital of ancient Japan. The deer who live in the park surrounding the Todai-ji Buddhist Temple are very aggressive if they know you have food!</div>
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From there we drove to Kyoto Prefecture to the town of Uji where we visited the Byodoin Temple. Next stop was the city of Kyoto. We spent the next day seeing the sights there which included the Nishiki Market and the Kiyomizu Temple. Saturday we took a bullet train to Yamaguchi and the World Scout Jamboree.</div>
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We had the great opportunity of working at the LDS tent in the Faith and Beliefs area of the Jamboree. Although under the auspices of the Young Men's Organization, the tent was organized by FamilySearch and included a My Family booklet activity on tablets, photo ops in front of three huge pictures of Christ and a temple and family history display, and an map pinning activity. Scouts could earn the "Thomas S. Monson Award" by doing several of these activities. We helped man the tent from about 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. This is one of the beautiful photo backdrops in the tent.</div>
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We met many interesting people from all over the world. Among them was Sister Jemima Nartey, Vice-Chairperson, World Scout Committee and Church member from Ghana.</div>
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He we are with some of the staff from the tent. Front row: Jim Green, Laura and Gary Dollar, Brent Summerhays, Back row: Tom Hunsaker, ?, Larry Call, Steve Anderson.</div>
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Sushi lunch with the Family History leadership of Asia: Sister Hurst, Steve Tsai (Manager, Chinese), Hashick Hong, Regional Manager, Asia Area), Jun Hori, (Family Search, Japan), Keiji Sugimoto (Manager, Japan), Elder Hurst. <br />
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Tuesday night (August 4) farewell dinner with the Family History leadership.</div>
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Detail of meal pictured above. The Japanese have such a way with everything, including food. Lovely, simply lovely. Jun drove us, along with Steve and Hashik to Fukuoka. The others headed home and we had a day to spend in Fukuoka. </div>
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Wednesday evening we attended the Fukuoka Temple. It was wonderful to be back after 18 months.Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-72568428214044904322015-08-09T03:33:00.003-07:002020-10-15T10:51:20.037-07:00An Amazing Book of Mormon Celebration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As we are writing this a couple of weeks after the fact, we will use quotes from our family letter of July 26 to describe the Celebration and events leading up to it.<br />
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been a momentous, exhilarating and exhausting week here in Kosrae.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Monday President Zarbock arrived from Guam
along with Elder and Sister Hardy from Chuuk.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">They have been here all week (and will leave with us on Tuesday) to help
with the Book of Mormon celebration.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Monday evening was relatively relaxing as we did not have a
rehearsal.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tuesday we were back on and
the practice was as frustrating as ever with its late start (by about three
hours) and failure of cast members to show.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wednesday we practiced only those scenes that had most fallen short on
Tuesday.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The rehearsal was promising but
we realized that once more we were practicing with different persons standing
in for the various cast members who did not come.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thursday we had a “dress rehearsal” which
actually went fairly well with only a couple of glitches.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friday we had no practice as everyone was
busy scrambling in the process of making food and decorating the Church grounds
for the event.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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went to buy a pig with a pre-agreed price of $300. Once we (Binton Lowary, Elders Hardy and
Batty and I) were there the owner saw the three white shirts and the price
suddenly jumped to $500. After a bit of
haggling and the seller not budging, we walked away. We later found a pig (much larger) owned by a
member and purchased it for $500 and Kaston Albert, a local member, found
another about the same size for just $300.
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The members worked hard all day Friday to prepare every detail for the Celebration. Sister Nena wove this beautiful food basket from a coconut leaf.<div><br />
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Sister Hadley wove this lovely book cover from pandanus. </div>
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"<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friday
the local Ace grocery store delivered the 19 cases of chicken, 15 cases of pork
rib and 45 cases of bottled water, along with a case of hot dogs and processed
ham.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The members were up most of the
night cooking on the local “uhm” and otherwise preparing.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">There were also buckets full of local
seafood, including lobster and crab, reef fish and huge yellow-fin tuna.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was supplemented by rice, breadfruit and
taro prepared in various traditional ways.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of course, most of this was for the end-of-the-day dinner on Saturday.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friday President Michael T. Ringwood of the
Asia North Area arrived along with Bishop Bill Davis (Manager of the Church
Service Center in Guam) with his wife, Wanda, Agustine Jimenez and Tevita
Tu’ituu from the FM (Facilities Mgt) Group in Guam, and the assistants to
President Zarbock, Elders Fabiano and Striplin.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also with them was Koji Kodama (humanitarian)."</span></div>
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We took a moment to enjoy a beautiful sunrise on Saturday morning. It was a good omen and a promise of good weather for the Celebration. <br />
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The members had been on the food all night. Brother Binton Lowary prepared the uhm for the pork.<br />
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Sister Alokoa and an assistant prepared the pork for the um.</div>
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missionary open house in the classroom side of the building.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The movie lasted until around 12:15 when a
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</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a delicious mixture of rice, coconut milk and large chunks of
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<span style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div> The pageant was followed by a wonderful feast.</span></div>Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-3028921495309701872015-07-19T01:54:00.004-07:002020-10-14T14:41:40.964-07:00Our Penultimate Week in Kosrae<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Its hard to believe that the Celebration is almost here. Preparations are in full swing. </div>
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Sisters Daniel, Lowary and Alokoa and others have been collecting shells on the beach and in the ocean to make beautiful necklaces. They work while others practice the "skit."</div>
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Sisters Nena and Phillip are making more scariris from the bark of the wild hibiscus tree.</div>
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Elder and Sister Batty, from Lake City, Utah, arrived on Monday to serve as CES missionaries on Kosrae. Sister Batty helped sew children's costumes for the skit. Kellly Ann Lowary helped too. <br />
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Brother Likaska Sigrah along with Elders Amato and Johnson help prepare props.</div>
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The children in Utwe Branch enjoyed the Book of Mormon Readers that Elder Hurst gave them. </div>
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Our Relief Society lesson in Utwe was about family history. The sisters were finding ancestors in the Kosrae Elak Sra Onak Book.</div>
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Likiaksa Tony Sigrah found his family in the Kosrae Elak Sra Onak book.</div>
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Thursday night Lelu Branch members assembled 500 hygiene kits to be donated to the Kosrae hospital as part of the Book of Mormon Celebration.</div>
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Friday morning we walked out early and met Justlina Lowary with her net. She was out fishing.</div>
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Its hard to believe that we have spent our last week in Guam! We arrived July 4 for our annual CES Couple's Conference. Its a miracle we made it as tropical storm Chan-Hom sifted slightly north that morning and gave us a chance to slip in before coming back down on Guam with a vengeance. Our experiences with the weather out here in the Pacific have made me realize that we live in a fantasy world most of the time, created by wealth and technology, where we think that we have control over our circumstances. We were glad to make it, not only for the conference but also for a much needed root canal and the chance to wrap us our Family Search Support Office and pack and clean up our apartment. It turned out to be an impossibly busy week.</div>
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Sunday we attended church in the Barrigada Ward for the last time. We both bore our testimonies and said our good-byes to the delightful people we have come to know and love there. I ended up spending the second two hours of the block in the Family History Center with Tami Burton helping members prepare names for an upcoming temple trip. A record 30 are participating. Grant spent the last two hours of the block with Elder and Sister Hardy working on the soundtrack for the Book of Mormon Pageant for Kosrae. </div>
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After church all the senior couples gathered at the mission home for FHE. Because we have traveled so much with our family history assignment, we have gotten to know the couples in the islands and it was really fun to see them again. They are all strong, adventuresome and hardworking folks.</div>
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Tuesday through Thursday were filled with stewardship reports, instruction and socializing. Wednesday we all went to lunch at Pizza Hut. These are the BEST people and we feel like we are in our own little Zion when we are gathered with them. Standing at the end of the table is Brother Freddie Nicerio, the CES director for Micronesia. We were also instructed by Elder Tae Gul Jung of the Eighth Quorum of the Seventy and Asia North Area director of Seminaries and Institutes. </div>
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I just have to name all these great folks! Center: Elder Jung and Brother Nicerio. Behind them, left to right: Elder and Sister Hardy (CES, Chuuk), Elder and Sister Hedgepeth (CES, Pohnpei), Elder and Sister Thomas (Military Relations, Anderson Air Force Base and Navy Base), Elder and Sister Brimhall (CES, Yap), Elder and Sister Guercio (Mission Nurse), Elder and Sister Reed (Self-Reliance, Chuuk), us, Elder and Sister Proffit (CES, Palau), Elder and Sister Martin (Mission Office), Elder (Dr.) and Sister Eliason (Medical, Chuuk), Elder and Sister Furstenau (MLS, Pohnpei), President and Sister Zarbock. We really love and admire these magnificent people!</div>
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We were so busy with so many things that we were not able to attend all of the Conference. One of them was a meeting with Governor Eddie Baza Calvo. On Wednesday morning we slipped away to meet with Barrigada Stake Family History Center Director, Tami Burton, to present some family history to him. He is an avid history buff and knows a lot about Guam and his family's history. He was so excited and interesting to talk to I think we all came away wishing we had more time to just sit and share.<br />
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We met with the governor several months ago to try to start the process of digitizing Guam's vital records. At that time he expressed interest in knowing more about his great great great grandfather's sister, Carmen Olivares Calvo, who married an American whaler and eventually ended up in Alameda, California in the 1870s. We decided to follow this question and in our research ran across a distant relative (by marriage) who has been interested in Carmen's family for a while. He had done some excellent research and was willing to share it with us to share with the governor. We printed a very nice book from a PDF file he sent. For our part, we entered and sourced all the information we could find about Carmen and her descendants in FamilySearch and then generated family group records with sources. We printed this also and created a second book. Here you can see the governor holding both volumes. <br />
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The digitizing project is still in the approval stages, but the governor is squarely behind it and has asked that it be a priority. Hopefully it will happen soon!Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-79534921955584913272015-07-13T04:44:00.001-07:002020-10-14T14:47:01.664-07:00Preparing for the Book of Mormon Celebration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We attended the baptism of two cousins performed at a beautiful waterfall.</div>
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The Zarbocks also came to Kosrae for Zone Conference and left Kosrae together on the same flight.</div>
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With typical Kosraean generosity Brother Daniel brought us a gift of breadfruit and steamed crabs.</div>
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From this point on we are splitting our time between Guam and Kosrae. Its a crazy way to end our mission but it has sure kept us from getting trunky. We haven't had time!!</div>
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On June 2 we left, with Elder Blackwell for Guam. Sister Nena made his this beautiful lei. He has been a great missionary.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Back on Guam we met up with Keiji Sugimoto and Jun who went right to work setting up the FamilySearch camera at MARC to photograph the Jane H. Underwood Guam Population Cards. Ralph has been hired to do the job. The cards are a great source of Chamorro genealogy.</span><br />
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Jim and Rose Marie Cruz took us out to lunch at Mescla and we tried Manahak, fried juvenile rabbit fish, a seasonal Chamorro specialty. They are harvested on the beach by the bucketful and then fried until crisp. Not bad.<br />
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On the way home from Merizo one Thursday evening we stopped to enjoy another beautiful sunset at Umatc . We are going to miss the skies of Micronesia!</div>
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Susana Sam and James Gogue check out the FamilySearch website at the Micronesia Island Fair FamillySearch booth. The Fair ran from Friday, June 12 through Sunday, June 14. </div>
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June, Jeanette and Keiji Sugimoto in front of our booth. Note Jamiliz Remarii being herself in the background and the cool banners that Tokyo made for us.</div>
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Here Jamieliz helps a visitor from Palau. The booth was a great way to introduce people to the FamilySearch website and the Barrigada Family History Center</div>
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Another great consultant, Krisitan Dana, helps out at the booth. </div>
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We enjoyed a lovely Chinese dinner on Sunday evening with Julie and Richard Fee and the Martins. Its so sad to be leaving all these wonderful people! We flew to Kosrae the next day.</div>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Monday the Elders took us along on a hike up Mt. Mutante, at 1,923 feet, the third highest peak on Kosrae . We thought we were in for a 2 to 3 hour walk but it ended up being a seven hour ordeal, straight up and straight down. The scenery was well worth the pain, however.</div>
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The day was beautiful and we hiked in the shade of the jungle most of the way which kept us cool. Here we are taking a much needed break with Elders Ferguson, Blackwell, Conk, Amato, Johnson and Gibb. <br />
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Our guide, Ned, although barefoot, set a brisk pace. The Elders were kind enough to slacken it a bit for us. It was still an aerobic challenge to keep scrambling up and up. The trail was barely discernible and followed narrow ridges, climbed steep, muddy hillsides and passed through the roots of giant trees. It looked and felt like an enchanted forest from Middle Earth.<br />
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From the top we could see much of the north and east of the 43 square mile island. The population is concentrated in villages along the coast. The main road runs part way around the island but there are no roads into the interior which is covered by dense jungle and uninhabited. Beyond the beaches, a shallow reef rings the island. Beyond the reef, where the surf was breaking, we could see a school of large fish churning up the sea.<br />
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At the top we rested on a narrow ridge, cushioned by thick moss covered with ferns. We were too tired to make the final push to the summit as it involved using a rope and we weren't sure we could trust our legs at that point. We enjoyed watching the Elders who, as you can see behind Grant, did make it to the very top. As we rested, a cloud formed around us, cooling us with its moisture.<br />
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Tuesday we bid farewell to Elder Ferguson at the Kosrae Interanational Airport. His departure brought the number of Elders on Kosrae down to five. (Elders Amato, Gibb, Conk, Ferguson, Balckwell and Johnson)<br />
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On Friday night the Lelu Branch had a farewell party for Elder Blackwell who will leave next Tuesday. Some of the Branch members sang "The Spirit of God" in beautiful unaccompanied harmony. The Kosraeans are the best singers in all of Micronesia.<br />
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Saturday afternoon we participated in a service activity with the Elders and helped clean the Utwe chapel. Here Elders Conk and Johnson wipe down the glass louvers. They and Elder Amato and Milson Albert, President George and his daughter Sina also helped.<br />
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After several months of hard work, Grant was able to record the spoken part of the soundtrack for the Book of Mormon pageant on Sunday afternoon after Church--something of a miracle in our estimation. These members from the Utwe and Lelu Branches each had a part. </div>
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Here is Grant with Brother Kosmaru Jonathan our "sound engineer." Brother Jonathan works at the local radio station where we had hoped to be able to do the recording but the sound booth has been eaten up by termites. Never to be deterred, Grant created this recording studio in the district President's office using a bedspread and sofa covers from the Senior Missionaries house. Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-70776963350388132582015-05-25T14:00:00.002-07:002020-10-14T14:57:56.505-07:00First Week in Kosrae!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In anticipation of the Book of Mormon celebration in Kosrae, we had Sepe Charley, a member of the Barrigada Ward, translate the script that Elder Hurst, the Hardys and President Zarbock have been working so hard on. </div>
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Sepe spent two entire days in our office and time at home completing the translation.</div>
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More great missionaries from the Guam Zone.</div>
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left Monday morning for Kosrae. That
evening we joined President Zarbock and the Kosrae Zone missionaries for
dinner. We are excited to be assigned to
Kosrae to help the members here plan and present a celebration of the Book of
Mormon which has just been translated into their language. This beautiful island is 43 square miles in
size and has a population of about 6,650 people which is about what it was
before European and American whalers arrived ca. 1824. When American Board Missionaries arrived and
established the Congregationalist Church on the island in 1852 the population
was in a freefall. By 1880 disease had
reduced the number of Kosraeans to under 200.
The demographic crisis plus the success of the missionaries undermined
the chiefly cast system and destroyed the indigenous culture. This is the
smallest island in the mission and the most remote. There are now six (soon to be only four)
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Kosrae is a "high" Micronesian island. The rugged interior is uninhabited and covered with dense jungle. This is the famous "Sleeping Lady" of Kosrae, as seen from the Lelu dock. Her head is on the right</div>
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This little boy is about 4 or 5 and lives with his parents and two brothers across the street from our house. We see the boys pass by our front door nearly every day on their way to the ocean. Noticing him collecting something out on the reef at low tide one day, we stopped him to see what it was. He had a bucket of sea cucumbers. Some people eat them and others use them for fertilizer. </div>
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The children here find interesting things to play with. This little guy has a collection of hermit crabs, some in the blue box to the right and others scattered on the steps below him. </div>
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We have enjoyed getting to know the six missionaries on the island. The zone leaders, Elders Gibb (above) and Blackwell (below), live just down the street from us. We found them one morning while on our walk, working out on the beach.</div>
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The chapel in Lelu will be the site of our celebration. It is one of the nicest buildings on the island but like everything else here, requires a tremendous amount of upkeep. Some minor repairs and renovations are underway which we hope will be completed by July 25.Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-56956559638750204832015-05-17T12:26:00.002-07:002020-10-15T10:48:25.635-07:00To the most amazing Palau and back to beautiful Guam and Typhoon Dolphin!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
We had a wonderful trip to Palau where we met some incredible members and saw some of the most beautiful spots on Earth: Rock Islands, Jellyfish Lake, Giant Clams, Milky Way and WWII wrecks, including a downed Japanese Zero still sitting in the lagoon. Unfortunately we weren't able to get photos of all of these - Jellyfish Lake (underwater swarming jelly fish with no sting) and the most amazing - giant clams the size of a small bathtub. This is a must see place!</div>
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Great hosts and wonderful company, Elder and Sister Proffit showed us a terrific time in Palau.</div>
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Jellyfish Lake - amazing gentle creatures!<br />
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Some of these clams were 3-4 feet across.</div>
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Wonderful walk in the lagoon, along the reef at very low tide - Tagachang Beach on Pacific Coast of Guam</div>
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Every Thursday is the Mangilao Night Market next door to the Santa Teresita Catholic Church, not far from our apartment. For the last couple of weeks Agnes and Tosie Tosie have had a booth selling Pearl Shakes and lumpia or fruit salad to earn money for the temple trip in July.</div>
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Suzanna Sam has been helping out too (always with a big smile). We love going to the market. You can buy anything from a lemon tree to chicken empanadas prepared by the local Imam to used clothes.<br />
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On one of our recent trips we found ripe papaya, soursop and mountain apples (also taro and breadfruit).<br />
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Saturday, April 18. We hiked with the Young Women of the Barrigada Stake down to Sella Bay, site of the ancient Chamorro village of Sidya, the remains of a Spanish beehive oven and a two-arch Spanish stone bridge. We enjoyed snorkeling in the bay with its ledges, tubes and underwater canyons.</div>
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Wednesday, April 22. We left the office early for an evening beach walk. Heading down to Tanguisson we found the tide way out and the reef flats exposed. A few people were out collecting shellfish to make Kelaguen. Grant picked up this trocha who came out to say hello. </div>
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We enjoyed yet another beautiful Guam sunset.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Thursday, April 23. Sister Julie Fee brought in her Barrigada Seminary Class to the FHC do some Family History. The youth are preparing names to take on the temple trip in July.</span><br />
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Friday, April 24. The Talisay Ward "Temple Night" brought out Sam Bailey, first counselor in the bishopric, Relief Society President Lisa Garcia and her two darling girls and long time Guam residents Buzz and Jeanette Passeur. The very capable Mike Monson, a ward family history consultant, conducted the evening.<br />
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Saturday, April 25. With the help of Elder and Sister Thomas, Military Relations Missionaries, we were able to get onto the Naval Base for a hike down the Spanish Steps (by rope and ladder) on Orote Point--the westernmost tip of the U.S. We were rewarded at the bottom of our climb by a lovely beach and excellent snorkeling. <br />
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Sunday, April 26. We stopped by the Barrigada Ward family history class and found these faithful members hard at work: Sister Walters, Dorthy Siren, Sister Masau, Sister Philemon, Suzanna Sam, Agnes Tosie, Tami Burton, Brother Nauta and Dale West.Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-27115581474549145232015-04-06T20:45:00.003-07:002020-10-15T10:46:53.599-07:00Happy Easter!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our visit to Kosrae continued and included a meeting with the Assistants to the President and the Kosrae Zone, hosted by us at the senior couple's house. Pictured below are Elders Murdoch, Blackwell, Gibb, Fabiano, Ferguson, Conk, Amato and Johnson.</div>
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We enjoyed meeting with families on Kosrae and talking about temple and family history. This beautiful family hopes to go to the Manila temple this year to be sealed.<br />
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While on Kosrae, we also helped members research and record their family history. Records for Kosrae are included in the Pohnpei vital records and we were able to help Rory (below) and others fill in their My Family Booklets.<br />
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Permides, the lone family history consultant on Kosrae is great. Here she is helping one of the sisters from the Lelu Branch. We worked out in the breezeway where it was cool. The chapel has no air conditioning but it does have a great wireless internet connection.<br />
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<br />We enjoyed our stay in Kosrae in the little missionary house on the beach. The sunrises were especially beautiful.<br />
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We flew to Pohnpei on Sunday, March 29 after a 24 hour delay. Monday morning we looked out our hotel window and saw this Founding Day parade go by. Students were celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the establishment of the College of Micronesia.<br />
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Next came the Pohnpeian Student Association. They boy in the blue shirt is blowing on a big shell.<br />
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Above is the Pingelap/Mokil (two small atolls that are part of Pohnpei State) Student Organization float. The queen who is riding in the back and who you cannot see is one of our family history consultants.<br />
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These students are from Yap. The yellow on their bodies is turmeric. The girls in this photo are wearing lavalavas, a sign that they are from the outer islands of Yap State. <br />
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After the parade the student organizations performed dances. We especially liked this one by the Pingelap/Mokil group depicting fierce warriors defending their women against European/American whalers.<br />
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<br /> The Chuukese students performed a stick dance--a sort of ritual mock battle with lots of yelling.<br />
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That evening we went down to Wone to attend Family Home Evening with the group members there. Peter Hebel showed us his beautiful garden. Here you can see his peas, corn, pineapple, watermelon and bananas. He also had cucumbers, squash and some citrus trees. <br />
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Later that evening we enjoyed a Spirit-filled family home evening. Peter's wife is in the center. The Wone group (part of the Kitti Branch) is truly one big family--most of the people in the group are related!<br />
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Wednesday evening we trained the new High Councilman in charge of Family History as well as the newly called Family History Director at the Pahnasang Stake Center. They are talented and committed and will be a great asset to the work on Pohnpei.<br />
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Later we trained some of the Family History Consultants. We challenged them, within the next month, to each complete their own My Family Booklet and also to Find (a name of an ancestor), Take (or share that name with the temple), and Teach (someone else how to do it too). <br />
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We arrived back in Guam, safe and sound, on Thursday evening. Saturday we had our annual Easter Picnic at Ritidian Beach, one of our very favorite places on Guam. Sunday we celebrated Easter with our dear fellow missionaries and friends in the Barrigada Ward. <br />
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We are grateful to have been kept safe from Typhoon Maysak and to be serving in this beautiful place.<br />
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</div>We arrived in Chuuk on Wednesday, the first stop in a two week, three island trip to the Eastern Carolines. On Thursday Grant traveled with Elder and Sister Hardy out to the island of Pata where the Hardies, with the help of Elders Paulis and Hakao, presented an Easter program to some of the members there.<br />
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<br /> Grant also followed up with some of the members on Pata and helped others start their family history.<br />
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I spent the day with Elder and Sister Eliason who are serving a medical mission to Chuuk. We drove out to the village of Sapuk to visit some ailing members there. <br />
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They were kind enough to share fresh coconuts with us. From Sapuk we drove back to Moen where the Eliasons gave me a tour of the hospital. Pretty scary.<br />
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We enjoyed dinner at the Truk Stop with both the Hardies (at the back) and the Eliasons (in the front) on Wednesday and Thursday evening. After dinner we had a good meeting with President Wainis. On Friday we flew to Kosrae and spotted this lone poster in the baggage claim. Texas seems like a galaxy away.<br />
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Our quarters on Kosrae are the senior couple's house, currently vacant, situated right on the beach. We also have use of the senior couple's car. <br />
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Here is the view from the back of the house. We enjoy walking along the beach and exploring the reef when the tide is out.<br />
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Many people farm and have gardens on Kosrae and local fruits and vegetables are abundant. Here Sister Hadley and AJ stand in front of her beautiful garden which includes tapioca, papaya and sugarcane. The poles she had cut and tied the sugarcane to were even sprouting leaves!<br />
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Brother Paul Nena enjoyed seeing the Book of Mormon online in Kosraen. We are told that the hard copy is currently at the press and may be ready by July.<br />
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After the block of meetings some of us went to visit a sick member at her home. We sat with her for over a hour singing LDS and protestant hymns. The Kosraens are beautiful part singers, a legacy of their early and continuous exposure to New England Protestantism. We will be here on Kosrae until next Saturday when we go on to Pohnpei. <br />
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<br /><div>Sister Masau and her daughter Irene Nakamura, Sister Martin and Sister Johanis. It was a lovely evening and well attended.</div>Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-48789745479924994942015-03-08T03:58:00.002-07:002020-10-15T10:45:50.646-07:00A Farewell Visit to Yap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div><br /></div><div> We continue to enjoy the beauties of Guam. Every evening presents a gorgeous display of light and water as the sun sets. Friday, February 20 we decided to leave the office early and take a walk on Tanguisson Beach before dark. We were rewarded by this beautiful display of color.</div><br />
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Late Tuesday night we flew to Yap for our second and last visit. We met with members there to teach them how to use FamilySearch. Here is Juanita Marngun (in the blue t-shirt) with her family. She is a returned missionary and now seminary teacher in the Colonia Branch who is also a very good helper on FamilySearch. We helped members at the chapel in Colonia . . . </div>
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and also made house calls. Here Elder Hurst helps Teresita Lihpai while daughter Tracy Gayas listens in. </div>
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Joseph Ayin, the patriarch of the family, showed us the little house he is building for himself. His family has grown so much that he now has to sleep on the porch!</div>
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Sunday we met with many members. Here, at the Colonia chapel, Anna Faltinag shows Sweetie and Aloy how to enter names into Family Tree. They are hoping to be sealed to each other and their children in the Manila temple this year.</div>
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We enjoyed seeing some of the Yap Day celebrations on Monday, March 2. This is a "Sitting Dance" performed by men from the district of Rull. Behind is a traditional "Men's House." Note the man purse there right below the window--a "must have" accessory for all men on Yap.</div>
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Mayleen, a member of the Colonia Branch, had a booth at Yap Day where she sold handicrafts.</div>
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We took a break from the festivities to meet some members of the Thol branch at the chapel in that village. Sylvester and Deccawitta have both created trees in FamilySearch and have been trained to help others do the same. </div>
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Tuesday we were lucky to meet and have lunch with Danny and Julie and their beautiful family.</div>
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Here is Juanita helping Haviar Gogol. She is one of the people we "left behind" in Yap to carry on family history work. At this point no one is coming to replace us. </div>
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Back in Guam, Elder Hurst is getting a lesson in Chuukese from Kitaela Kalima, Barrigada Ward Relief Society President.<br />
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Yesterday we drove south to Uamtac to celebrate Discovery Day. Magellan supposedly sailed into this little bay and the first European set foot on Guam on 6 March 1521.</div>
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Walking north along the east coast of Guam toward Fadian Cove.</div>
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Our destination - Fadian Cove. We had to bushwhack our way through the bush. Thank goodness we had a guide or we would still be out there in the jungle someplace!</div>
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Gomer and beautiful wife at Fadian Cove.</div>
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Our favorite taro and local food vendor from the island of Rota at the Mangilao public market.</div>
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Outside our apartment door - sprouting coconuts, basil, tomatoes, oregano, ornamental & coconut tree which we picked up on a morning hike 11 months ago and put in our planter.</div>
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Daniela Booker with her four-generation pedigree which Jeanette helped her complete. Her mother is from Palau and father from Texas. She left this week to serve a mission in California.</div>
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Jean Jacques Tehahe of the Dededo Ward. Tahitian we are helping get in contact with family in Tahiti after many, many years. Classic. It is the joy of connecting families, living and dead, that makes this work fun and fulfilling.</div>
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Where America's Day Begins: Sunrise January 1, 2015 Tagachang Beach, Guam</div>
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Senior couples outing at Ritidian Beach - limestone formations.</div>
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We began the senior missionary conference with Family Home Evening and hamburgers at the mission home on Monday night. Five couples came in from the islands to join us.</div>
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On Thursday we took a Talofofo River Excursion to end the senior missionary conference. From left to right: Elder and Sister Reed, Sister Proffit, Elder and Sister Hedgepeth, Sister Furstenau, Sister Hurst</div>
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Exotic fruit - soursop</div>
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The missionaries join in the fun at the Barrigada Ward Party at Ypao Beach on Saturday.</div>
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Baptism in the ocean at Merizo, Guam Saturday afternoon.</div>
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Elder & Sister Hedgpeth in Pohnpei fed us a wonderful meal on Sunday and looked after us until our midnight flight back to Guam. They are adjusting magnificently to Pohnpei and are a great boon to the work.</div>
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Senior Elders: Pres. Zarbock, Hurst, Reed, Thomas, Martin & Guercio</div>
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Elders Bunn, Tupua and Fiti and Sisters Kolini, Finau and Pahulu. The gentleman in the back is from Chuuk and came to Pohnpei for a funeral. He was so impressed by his LDS family members that he asked to be taught the Gospel and be baptized. Afterwards we met the Hedgpeths, the new Senior CES couple, for dinner at Arnolds.<br />
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Thursday morning we hired a boat and driver and went snorkeling in the lagoon out near Saptwik. The main island is ringed in mangrove forest so its not possible to enter the ocean from the shore.<br />
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<br />The coral was amazing and the fish plentiful. At Saptwik we saw a well preserved Japanese wharf and at neighboring Lenger, island a Japanese sea plane ramp.<br />
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In the afternoon we drove to Paliker where me met Betty, the FSM archivist, and picked up films and a digitizing contract for FamilySearch. Pohnpei has one of the best vital record collections of any island in the Pacific online at FamilySearch. Collaboration continues and will hopefully result in even more searchable records for the FSM.<br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Friday we drove down to Sapwalap to train three amazing new consultants, Pedrus, Daisy and Martin. They worked for three and a half hours! The ward is in good hands with this group. We returned to Sapwalap on Saturday morning to train the priesthood leaders for that ward as well as Mand and U Branches. </div>
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President Albert and his son, the only priesthood holders in the U Branch, find and attach records for their family at FamilySearch. We found the youth to be extremely interested in the website and thoroughly capable of using it to help their parents and ward/branch members do their family history.<br />
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After the meeting, President Nakamura of the U Branch took us on a short walk to Kepirohi Waterfall down the road from the Sapwalap Chapel. Entering the jungle was like entering the Garden of Eden. The path was well worn and well groomed and lined with beautiful flowers and foliage.<br />
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In the afternoon we met Bradley, one of the YSA consultants who lives in Kolonia and he took us to where the men from his island of Kapingamarangi do traditional carving. </div>
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The people of Kapingamarangi, an outer island of Pohnpei, were given land in Kolonia where they settled in Pohnrakied Village. The people support themselves by traditional crafts and fishing.<br />
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Traditional fish traps and box in the rafters of the craft house.</div>
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Sunday we attended church at Paliker then returned in the afternoon to train priesthood leaders from Panasang, Paliker, and Sekere.<br />
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We are confident that great things are going to happen in Pohnpei as the people learn to use FamilySearch and the records there from them. Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-68590657711834069652014-12-14T04:25:00.001-08:002020-10-14T16:02:47.629-07:00Saipan Family History Fair, Our Lady of Camarin Procession & Christmas Lights at the Governor's Mansion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We spent the weekend following Thanksgiving in Saipan participating in a school sponsored family history fair. This is Lino Olopai, traditional story teller and entertainer.</div>
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Sisters Benson and Burton taught a class on gathering stories from your family history.</div>
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Sister Hurst taught a class on the basics of family history research.</div>
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Members of the Saipan Ward enjoy refreshments following the fireside on Sunday evening.</div>
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Saipan Ward - Brother & Sister Wiswell and Sister Benson</div>
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Our Lady of Camarin is the Patron Saint of Guam. It is a statue of Mary that was washed up on the beach in the 1700s, apparently from a shipwreck but legend has it that it was brought to shore by two crabs, each with a lighted candle on its back. December 8th is her Feast Day and a holiday in Guam. In 1992, so goes the story, the legislature eliminated this day as a holiday. Unfortunately the good Lady did not take too kindly to this and shortly after this a huge typhoon was unleashed causing massive damage - especially to the legislator's house who had introduced the bill to eliminate this as a holiday. The holiday was soon reinstated! Message: Don't mess with the Lady of Camarin.</div>
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The Lady on her cart with procession.</div>
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A smattering of the families at the luncheon. A Ioanis at the left top, three Taiwerbwe (red shirt and two in front-Yapese), Kalima boy and top right Brother & Sister Ioanis.</div>
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The rainy season is giving way to drier weather here on Guam, although the temperatures remain in the 80s. Less rain means stunning sunsets. We are treated to beautiful displays like this one nearly every evening as well leave our office. This was the view from our parking lot at the Service Center earlier this month.<br />
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Our Family History Consultant Training for November included some exercises with the FamilySearch Sandbox. We have a great team of adults and youth.<br />
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Early Saturday, November 15 we drove down to the little village of Umatac on the southwestern coast of Guam, the supposed landing spot of Magellan in 1521. Here a fisherman wades back to shore with his catch. <br />
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Umatac is famous, or infamous, as the epicenter of an ALS-Parkinsonism- Dementia complex which at its height in the 1950s afflicted 420 out of every 100,000 on Guam. Scientists have tried to determine if the disease is genetic or environmental but no definitive explanation has been found. One positive outcome of the research is a comprehensive study of Chamorro genealogy done by a biological anthropologist which I helped process at the Micronesia Research Center at the University of Guam. I have found it to be very useful in doing Chamorro Family History.<br />
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Grant and I hiked the coastline from Umatac south to Toguan Bay at low tide. Much of it is rugged weathered limestone (karst) interspersed with lava flows. The tide pools were full of crabs, fish and coral. <br />
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We continue to work with families and individuals as they prepare to go to the temple or just get started with their family history. Grant is helping William, a great YSA, put his Pingelapese (Dad's side) and Marshallese (Mom's side) family into FamilySearch.<br />
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Yesterday morning we hiked the beach at Tarague on Andersen Air Force Base at the north eastern tip of Guam. Its always quiet and deserted up there. <br />
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This time we struck inland and followed a dirt road through the old Atikns-Kroll copra plantation which operated from 1914 until the beginning of WWII. <br />
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Northern Guam is all limestone, no lava. I love the patterns in the weathered coral on the beaches.<br />
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On the way home we stopped at Tanguisson Beach to collect shells. (I am that little dot in the distance.) It was a perfect afternoon. Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-4837718439076686312014-11-12T03:32:00.002-08:002020-10-15T10:42:31.677-07:00Youth challenge - Reef shelf walks - Friends - Missionaries - Halloween - Day of the Dead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mangolia Dun - from Burma via New Jersey, serving in U.S. Navy and on her way to Virginia. </div>
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Near Taguisson Beach on the west of Guam. </div>
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Elders Murdoch and Malais in from Palau for some leadership training and family history. </div>
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Barrigada Guam Ward Halloween Party starting with pie eating contest and musical chairs - followed by a chili cook off. </div>
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Sunday was "Day of the Dead" a sort of Catholic event where people remember their dead. Primarily they picnic on the graves - we have a better way!</div>
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With the help of a vintage Japanese tank we were able to get the recently escaped tyrannosaurus rex under control.</div>
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. . . just as another emerged from the depths of the jungle!</div>
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Our Kosrean, Yapese and Chuukese friends showing their stuff at a Relief Society activity.</div>
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Shirely from Satawal - far out island in State of Yap making a lei.</div>
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<br /><span style="text-align: justify;">On Thursday night we held the first monthly family history class in the Barrigada Family History Center. Brother Richard Fee taught us how Ancestry.com and FamilySearch can work together. Attendance was good and the presentation was great!</span><br />
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<br />Friday I split the day between MARC and the FHC. In the afternoon Berlyn, Anges and Angie came by to pick up coconuts trimmed by the grounds keepers. They husked (you can see the contraption behind Berlyn and Agnes) and cut open two young coconuts for Grant and I to drink. Great ladies!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">That evening we Senior sisters got together at our apartment to work on Family History while the men went to the rebroadcast of General Priesthood Meeting.Clockwise from the left are Sister Martin (Office), Sister Guercio (Medical), Sister Reed (Self-Reliance--from Manassa, CO) and Sister Thomas (Military Relations). More great ladies!</div>
Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6808940848966740560.post-40727876967660959402014-09-28T18:22:00.001-07:002020-10-14T16:26:40.140-07:00Barrigada Guam Stake Family History Fair September 26 & 27, 2014<br />
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<br />On Friday and Saturday September 26 and 27 the first ever Barragada Guma Stake Family History Fair was held. We opened the Fair with a great Fireside presented by our Stake Patriarch, Chris Gittens, on Friday evening. Saturday we offered a number of classes, lunch and entertainment. Brother Fee manned the Registration table. Here he is with Bishop Nicerio of the Dededo Ward.<br />
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<br />We had a fantastic key-note speaker, Jillette Leon-Guerro, who screened her video, <i>Across the Water in Time</i>. Here she is (on the left) next to Marjorie Driver, a founding member of the Micronesia Area Research Center. They are sitting next Sister Rose Cruz (in pink) and her friend.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Sister Darlene Reed, on of our Self-Reliance Missionaries, gave a great presentation on RootsMagic.</span></div>
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Elder Hurst and Kristian Dana, one of our new youth Family History Consultants, hosted a "drop-in" FamilySearch hands on workshop.</div>
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At lunchtime we enjoyed a cultural show with traditional costumes representing many of the islands of the Pacific. </div>
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After lunch we were treated to a series of classes including "Family History for Families "presented by Wanda Davis . . .<br /><br />
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"Resources at MARC by Omaira Brunall-Perry," curator of the Spanish Documents/ Manuscript collection there . . . <br /><br />
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and "Adding Life to your Family History with Interviews" by Sister Martin, on half of the office couple.<br /><br />
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Brother Val Welch from Saipan also presented "Traditional Technology," an island wide project he is leading to encourage youth to capture and share the stories of their elders using the latest technology.<br />
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile, Sisters Kateila Kalima and Susana Sam conducted a popular Chuukese Family History Workshop.</span></div><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> The last hour of classes included Elder Martin's "Adding Pictures to Your Family History."</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Tami Burton, the Barrigada Stake Family History Center Director, taught "Writing Your Personal History."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">These beautiful sisters represent the diversity of our Stake: Chinese, Marshallese, Chamorro and Yapese.</span><br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;">Three Yapese beauties</div>Grant and Jeanette Hursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704863353324383498noreply@blogger.com2