tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85805417507113476372024-02-21T00:23:57.387-08:00LOVING the ADVENTURES of LIFEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-3227223816402167692014-02-21T10:39:00.000-08:002014-02-21T12:24:31.317-08:00My Waite Children<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u>My Waite Children</u></div>
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So long I wait for
the day we meet</div>
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The day I kiss your
tiny feet</div>
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My dreams so often
turn to you</div>
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And the love I feel
for someone unknown</div>
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Wonder, I may, of the
wait so long</div>
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For children of my
own to come</div>
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So many others I’ve
taught and loved</div>
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When can I get the
ones I bring home?</div>
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Of course I seek, I
ponder, I pray</div>
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My Lord has mercy and
answers with Peace </div>
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My children are
happy, protected and loved</div>
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Preparing and
learning for their journey ahead</div>
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So I wait with
patience and hope</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> One particularly frustrating day after a few years of marriage and yet another negative pregnancy test the words of this poem just started flowing into my mind. I am not a writer by any means so please don't judge the flow too harshly. I wouldn't normally share something like this but I have several friends going through these same trying times right now and if this can help strengthen anyone out there it will be worth my </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">embarrassment of sharing something so personal. T</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">hese words are something that over the next coming years of waiting I turned to often, and they helped me remember the Peace and this answer that did come. While praying one night Heavenly Father blessed me to be able to feel of my children's joy at where they were at and to let me know that they were with Him and He was taking care of them. I knew that they would come when they were ready and it was their appointed time to be on Earth. I had not thought of it like this before. I was always thinking of myself and what I wanted to happen. Turning my focus to them and what was best for them made it a little easier. And now our little boy is here and another on the way and the years of waiting were all worth it. Ryeland has brought more happiness into our home than we could have ever imagined. He is and will always be such a treasure to us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">earlier hours—real or imagined—fall away in the abundance of the final reward."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"> I don't know if we'll be good from here on out or if we will have to wait longer than we want to for other children down the road but I do know that it will all be according to the Lord's will and will be what is best for our family. To those of you still waiting right now I really hope that your time comes soon. I know that it is so, so, so Hard! The doctors bills paid with no reward in site, the decisions to be made regarding treatment, the roller coaster of good news and soon after bad news giving you a roller coaster of emotions, trying to hold back the tears every time someone asks you how things are going ect., ect. It is all so hard to deal with. But I know that Heavenly Father loves us so much; it will all be well in the end! And the reward in the end will be all the more special :) I mean; just look at the foot up top!</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-89792232669500946002012-02-27T12:43:00.000-08:002012-02-27T12:43:31.159-08:00Finding joy in Homemaking<br />
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(This is something I sent to my family in an e-mail and I thought I would share it on here as well.)</div>
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Yesterday I taught the Young Women lesson on
Homemaking. As usual I’m sure that I learned
the most from my reading and preparing.
I really loved one particular talk by Susan W. Tanner called
Strengthening Future Mothers. The reason
why is that I learned something very important which we’re taught all the time
but it hit me in this instance when thinking about our Mom. And that is the power of example. Sister
Tanner shared how the 3 most important things in teaching our YW is our example,
example, example. Well, I started
thinking about this related to Homemaking skills and how we are to teach our
children to desire to have them. Another
thing that happened that help me realize this even more is I was making bread
to take for my lesson and Liji asked me how old I was when I learned how to
make bread, then he said were you 10, 11, 12?
He thought, I guess because I’m so good at it now;), that Mom must have
taught me all about baking and cooking from a very young age and that’s not the
case. I didn’t learn how to make bread
until after I was married, which he was very surprised at. How could someone like me who loves baking, cooking,
sewing, decorating, ect. and above all else since as long as she can remember
has only ever wanted to be a homemaker/mother not have learned to bake bread
until after she was married? </div>
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Now I
don’t remember mom teaching me how to do that but I do remember sitting on the
counter talking with her while she worked and the same thing while she was
using the sewing machine and the same thing while she was cooking dinners, I
watched her a lot. I remember her always
cleaning up after everyone and making huge plates of food for Dad or special
dinners for him or other families that I didn’t get. I remember her waking up
in the middle of the night and cleaning up my throw-up and then getting me
medicine or whatever I needed to help me feel better, clear through High School.
And most importantly I realized that I
most remember her never complaining about any of these things and I even
remember that she always seemed happy in doing these things. This example of joy in homemaking is what I
believe gave all of us children such an appreciation and love for this most
divine role, including the boys and their desires for the wives now. That is why I was the girl in YW or in her
school class who when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up and all the
other kids had said all these famous and “glorious” professions I would slowly
raise my hand and rather shyly say, “A Mom.” It wasn’t teaching us the skills necessary,
that eventually I know we have all gone to her to learn anyways, but teaching
by showing us of the joy in this most sacred, holy and satisfying calling. With
that knowledge we later all sought on our own to acquire all the skills
necessary through going to her, or our classes in school or our jobs because we
knew that is where true joy lays. I know
I did cook dinners and bake in High School, I don’t want it to sound like Mom
didn’t teach us any of these skills, she
did, I just remember being able to do it though and I don’t specifically
remember the teaching part, I think that went on through all the watching I did
while she was working. But I just wanted
to point out that knowing how to do those things wasn’t what gave me the desire
to be a homemaker, it is the example I have talked about. </div>
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I’m sure
many of you have already realized this by now but I just thought I would share
it with all my wonderful sister and sister-in-law mothers who want to teach
their children of the importance of a homemaker’s role and hope that you
realize how profound of an impact your little displays of positive or negative
attitudes about fulfilling your role in the home does make a huge impact on the
views your children will have on it in the future. I have
already seen all of you do a wonderful job at displaying such a positive
attitude. And I wanted to thank Mom for
being such an amazing example so that I can have this strong testimony of my
role as a woman today and share that with others, when it seems that there are
becoming less and less of these woman who know. </div>
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This is
a little quote from Sister Tanner about her Mom’s example to her that I loved. </div>
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“My best
and most consistent example in learning the joys of homemaking and mothering
was my own mother. She told me many
times every day how much she treasured being a mother and homemaker, and then
she lived those words in every action.
She sang as she folded laundry, she exulted over the clean smell in a
freshly scrubbed bathroom; she taught me how to read and write, sew and cook,
love long-suffering, and temperance, I felt it and I wanted the same things in
my life.” </div>
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She also
said this, “Serving families is a way of covenant keeping, and covenant keeping
reaps the promised blessing of having the Spirit in our lives.” That is where the joy comes from.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-18179054849354564682012-01-09T15:36:00.000-08:002012-01-09T15:38:17.812-08:00Christmas Break = Fun, Fun, Fun <span style="text-align: center;">Christmas Break we had such a Blast. Liji got out early on the 16th and he didn't have to go back until </span><br />
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Jan. 3. It was so much fun to have him home with me. The plan was to go to Oregon for Christmas and New Years but we took the first few days of Liji's break to spend time together and to finish up some projects. Here's Liji out front with 2 of 4 of our neighbors dogs.</div>
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He somehow talked me into sleeping outside to watch the stars with him 2 nights in a row. Can you see the frost that is shaped around my head circle on my pillow? But we were actually nice and toasty in the warm bed Liji put together for us. </div>
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(Liji) <span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">A month or so ago I bought about
50 square feet of birch wood at the construction thrift store for $20 (birch is
normally about $7 a foot so that was really good deal).</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I was planning on making something for
Christina, but I hadn’t started when she showed me a piece of furniture online
that she really wanted.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">It was a three
sided narrow set of shelves that rotated, on one side was a mirror, on another
a cork board, and on the last side a chalk board.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">When she said she wanted that, I decided that
I would make it for her.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I only needed
the piece of hardware that allowed the shelves to spin.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Luckily we found a spinning bar stool at the
thrift store for only five dollars.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">It
didn’t match any of our furniture but Christina let me talk her into buying
it.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I took the spinning hardware off of
it and Christina never even noticed.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I
asked the building trades teacher at school to help me cut the boards to the
right length and width on the table saw at school and then I spent a couple
weeks working on it in our living room.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I told Christina that I was working on a set of shelves for our living
room.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">She never caught on.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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Once I had it completely
assembled (but not stained) it was too big to hide anymore and I needed to
stain it inside where it was warm so I decided to surprise Christina by having
it set up in the garage and then asking her to come out and give me her opinion
on how I should build our work bench. It
was set up right in the middle of the garage and it’s seven feet tall so I
figured she would notice it right away, she didn’t. After we had talked for a minute or two she
finally got around to noticing her Christmas present. We will finish staining it together (unless
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Wednesday night we took off for Oregon to spend Christmas with Family. 9 our of 10 of Liji's siblings were all able to make it. We played A LOT of games; my kind of holiday by the way. </div>
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They took their traditional 7 brothers picture of their big ;) muscles.</div>
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Some of Liji's siblings built up a bunch of tumble weeds at the bottom of the bluffs behind their parents house. We had a lot of fun jumping off the bluffs and sinking into the weeds. We only got a few scratches. </div>
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The 27th was our 5th anniversary. Luckily it was the day the family planned for all the couples to go to the Temple together. So we got to spend the morning doing sealings and a session and then we went out to eat with everyone. It would have been nice to have a little more alone time but we got that before we went to Oregon so it was Ok. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I feel so lucky to be married to this man. He is such an amazing example to me. It was also his Birthday this week on the 5th so I guess it's a good time to brag about him a bit. He does so good at keeping us on track doing the things that we should. He's mainly the one making sure we're saying our prayers and reading the scriptures everyday, getting a full fast in, that we're paying our tithing, that we're fulfilling our duties in the church, volunteering us to do things all the time, ect., ect., ect. I love that I can sign up for us to be in charge of or show up to pretty much anything and I can do it knowing that Liji will be full for it. As long as it involves service I know that Liji will be jumping to action. To me that is such an amazing quality to have. We have gone through some hard things and Liji has always been so supportive of me and anything I feel like we need to do. I love him for always and forever, just in case you were wondering :)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-47473521372549247582012-01-09T14:36:00.000-08:002012-01-09T14:36:25.590-08:00Re-upholstering our Thrift Store Couch<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Monday
we started on our thrift store couch that we’re reupholstering.. I was worried that we would come into some
complications but we really didn’t have any problems and it was a lot easier
than I thought it would be. Monday night
Liji helped me take it apart. As you can see from the pictures there was a lot of staples to take out. We had to get all the fabric off still in good shape because that is what I used as a pattern to cut out the new fabric. Tuesday
and Wednesday I worked pretty much all day while Liji was gone at taking off
the old fabric and putting on the new fabric.
Then Wednesday night Liji helped me put it back together. It went a lot faster and turned out a lot
better than I thought it would. After
working so hard on it I don’t want anything to happen to it and I now know why
my Dad used to get so mad at me for jumping on our couches when I was
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">We got a couple of oak chairs from the thrift store for only four dollars apiece.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">They are really solid, but we didn’t like the color of the fabric on the seat and back so I took them apart and Christina used some of our left over couch fabric to reupholster them.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">She also sanded them down and re-stained them with linseed oil.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">They match our couch and rocking chair and they look really nice.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">We now have all matching furniture in our living room.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">We paid fifteen dollars for the couch, twelve for the rocking chair and eight for the two chairs, plus about 30 for the fabric and now we have a complete matching set of very sturdy (the couch has an oak frame) living room furniture for about 65 dollars.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">We are glad that Christina has her sewing machine and that she is so proficient with it.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">Since I made our coffee table and dining room table and chairs out of scrap lumber all of the furniture in our house cost us much less than $100.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span>
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For thanksgiving we went down to my parents house for the weekend. It was really nice to see everyone. My brother Andrew and his family are staying with my parents right now and so we got to spend a lot of time with these 2 cuties.</div>
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This one is Jane. My brother says she should be mine because he reminds him so much of me. I wish she were; she certainly has quite the personality. </div>
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After all the adults were done checking out the Black Friday deals they were so cute going through the ads showing us everything that they want. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-27248487716530978252012-01-09T14:00:00.000-08:002012-01-09T14:00:15.224-08:00Lunar Eclipse<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Liji planned such a fun date for us starting at 5 am one morning. He woke up earlier and set up a pillow bed on the floor by our sliding glass door that gave us a perfect view of the whole lunar eclipse and even made hot chocolate. Then he carried me out at 5 and we cuddled up and watched Psych on the computer while watching the eclipse all the way through until 7:30. Such a fun morning! And I am not a morning person.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-38760410070509097792012-01-09T13:49:00.000-08:002012-01-09T13:49:59.500-08:00Our New House for a Time<div style="text-align: center;">
The week before Thanksgiving we got word that we could move into the house further south in the valley, in Bellevue, that we have been wanting to move into since we first came to check out the area this last summer. We like Bellevue because it's a small, quiet town and closer to the High School for Liji than where we were first renting. Since we have been married we have always lived in tiny apartments where we have had to cram everything in(we're both pack rats). When Liji got this new job and we found out we would get a rental stipend from work we decided it was time we got ourselves some space. It has been so fun to unpack and get everything organized. It took us longer than we thought because we've never had more than one option for a picture wall, or where to have the furniture. I swear I moved our furniture in the living room around like 20 times before I was happy. We also like being on the edge of town and having our own space and having a garage is nice too. </div>
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Guest Bedroom</div>
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Hallway to the Bedrooms </div>
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Our messy workroom</div>
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Bathroom</div>
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Our bedroom</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-57947144303178363182011-11-07T15:20:00.000-08:002011-11-08T22:20:02.425-08:00Waiting Upon the Lord: Thy will be done<img src="http://lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/leaders/robert-d-hales-10.jpg" />This is the title of Elder Hales talk from Conference this last month and I loved it when I listened to it over the TV but today I re-read it and I have found so many more wonderful insights than I ever imagined I could find when I was listening to it. This was truly a talk prepared for me and I have a feeling for many of you as well:) All of you should read the full version for yourselves and here is the link:<br />
<a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng">http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng</a><br />
but I just wanted to share some of my favorite parts.<br />
He started out by giving several examples from the life of our Savior. He shares the 6 specific times when our He had to wait upon our Father whether it was for comfort, the time of his ministry, release of pain, or release from temptation. Then Elder Hale's says this: <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"I have often pondered, Why is it that the Son of God and His holy prophets and all the faithful Saints have trials and tribulations, even when they are trying to do Heavenly Father’s will? Why is it so hard, especially for them?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">He later gives this answer:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The scriptures give us an answer in one simple phrase: we “wait upon the Lord.”</span><sup class="noteMarker" guid="81812e4d-1325-4459-876d-f8e9f08fde70" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f6ed; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#12-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12</a></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, “all these things shall [be for our] experience, and … [our] good.”</span><sup class="noteMarker" guid="cbf4d14e-1998-402c-b200-927f026ac7bd" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f6ed; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#13-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13</a></sup><br />
I especially was grateful for the understanding that he gives. Saying that waiting on the Lord doesn't mean that we will always understand our challenges. That there will be hard circumstances where we may fall on our knees and ask, "O God, where art thou?" He then quotes Psalms and tells us that "yes, weeping may endure for a night, but that joy cometh in the morning." Then in the dawn of our increased faith and understanding, we arise and choose to wait upon the Lord saying, "Thy will be done." This was exactly what happened to me after my second miscarriage. That night I had no hope. I really did not want to go back into work because I didn't want to have to tell close co-workers that I had already told I was pregnant. And I just felt so sad I didn't think I could hold back the tears when thoughts of my loss suddenly hit me, which I knew they would. We were supposed to be moving a month from then anyways and I just wanted to leave right then and start over, not having to face anyone at work or church. But I went to sleep that night and it was amazing what a difference that night made. The next day I had a new perspective and a new Hope. I thought, well maybe I can go back to work and maybe I can get through this. Everything is going to be Ok. I'm glad to know that we are aloud that night of weeping:)<br />
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This next part is my favorite part. He gives us 7 meanings of "waiting upon the Lord." What I loved about it is that it was a good check up on myself. For many years now I have been waiting on the Lord for a very righteous desire. All of these meanings that Elder Hale's gives are things that I have been taught line-upon-line already through whispering s of the Spirit or other people that Heavenly Father has put in my path and it was just really neat now seeing this all put together and my thoughts confirmed.<br />
One answer came over Labor Day weekend when Elder and Sister Ballard came to our ward that Sunday and sat down next to us on our bench. I had the chance to chat a little with Sister Ballard and after asking how long we had been married she asked about children. I told her how much we wanted children but have not been able to have any yet. She shared with me that it took her 3 years to get married and how hard that was on her. The advise she gave me was that it takes a very mighty prayer, which is the 2nd meaning Elder Hales gives of "waiting on the Lord."<br />
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Here are all 7 meanings he gives:<br />
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"To wait upon the Lord means planting the seed of faith and nourishing it “with great diligence, and … patience.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="6ccf579f-438c-4822-94e2-6cb40c9698a9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#17-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">17</a></sup></div>
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It means praying as the Savior did—to God, our Heavenly Father—saying: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="dc3f716c-1e49-4176-b4f8-bf222dcd6b79" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#18-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">18</a></sup> It is a prayer we offer with our whole souls in the name of our Savior, Jesus <a class="no-link-style" href="http://jesuschrist.lds.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; color: #2f393a; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ</a>.</div>
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Waiting upon the Lord means pondering in our hearts and “receiv[ing] the Holy Ghost” so that we can know “all things what [we] should do.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="e2d35e85-26ec-4f9d-811a-e1b4455ea0ff" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#19-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19</a> </sup>As we follow the promptings of the Spirit, we discover that “tribulation worketh patience”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="42a3f541-1dff-4acd-819b-2f68b405ad3a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#20-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20</a></sup> and we learn to “continue in patience until [we] are perfected.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="28c48e19-5d4e-4a91-8407-0f100548558e" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#21-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21</a></sup></div>
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Waiting upon the Lord means to “stand fast”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="a6e47ff2-c45f-4989-899c-6e0410e44822" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#22-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">22</a></sup> and “press forward” in faith, “having a perfect brightness of hope.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="e6dbfb9f-51f1-4a56-ae18-f2c00e351680" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#23-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">23</a></sup></div>
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It means “relying alone upon the merits of Christ”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="247c5cbd-c377-4687-bc7b-9905a098ba88" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#24-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">24</a></sup> and “with [His] grace assisting [us, saying]: Thy will be done, O Lord, and not ours.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="b2802182-8b62-4fd7-9a15-bbf8187cd176" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#25-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25</a></sup></div>
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As we wait upon the Lord, we are “immovable in keeping the commandments,”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="4b2a5bf7-bc0b-4144-9199-c0596e54d73e" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#26-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">26</a></sup> knowing that we will “one day rest from all [our] afflictions.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="7db699ed-ffe8-4c11-bc9c-22ab646202d7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#27-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">27</a></sup></div>
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And we “cast not away … [our] confidence”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="c5bae196-0410-4c41-a965-3349233f8f49" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#28-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">28</a></sup> that “all things wherewith [we] have been afflicted shall work together for [our] good."<sup class="noteMarker" guid="9c4fe93e-babb-447b-bdb8-d317606e41c9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></sup></div>
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And what a great reminder he later gives us, that when we are waiting we should be reminded that there are many other people in our lives who are waiting for us. </div>
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He says, "In your daily Christlike ministry, you are waiting upon the Lord and doing your Heavenly Father's will."</div>
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I'm pretty sure that there are is a lot more that I should be doing as a servant of Christ and I hope that I will not leave many people waiting on me much longer. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Let us remember that as we wait upon the Lord, we are becoming “saint[s] through [His] atonement, … submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.”</span><sup class="noteMarker" guid="d689035c-7944-4bd8-a747-c972907cc00a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f6ed; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng#36-PD50029123_000_4020" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">36</a>"</sup></div>
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I am so grateful for all of our special witness' of Christ that are on the Earth today. What a blessing we have in having them to guide and direct us in such challenging, yet exciting times. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-62410722164263727622011-06-22T19:18:00.000-07:002011-06-22T21:23:24.317-07:00Sad DayRight now I work at an employment training facility for adults with disabilities and I love it, but I guess it can also have it's hard moments. This morning as I was walking into work my directors husband stopped me and told me that he thought I should know one of my clients passed away that morning. They found him dressed so they know it wasn't in his sleep but don't know what happened. I was shocked, there was nothing that happened with him recently to predict this; he was just at work happy and joking around as could be. I was shocked at first and it wasn't till I got inside that I just couldn't keep the tears away; he was a pretty big guy and so sweet. I always thought of him as our big brown teddy bear(he was also very dark skinned) The part that really gets to me is that just last week was his birthday and during a conversation with him he told me that for his birthday he wanted to go up to heaven to give his angel mama a hug and sing her a song; he wanted to know if that would be ok. I asked him what song he would sing and he said one he made up. I asked him to sing it to me and he just started singing this little tune about going to his angel mama and giving her a hug, it was pretty cute. Then he told me that he wanted to go up to heaven and he asked if he could go up there. I told him that he couldn't go yet because I would miss him to much. Well I guess Heavenly Father decided to give him his wish and I know that he is so happy up in heaven without his physical and mental limitations but I'm still gonna miss him so much at work. He had such a big heart, was never one to complain and always quick with compliments. It took me awhile to get to know him because he was very soft spoken and is definitely one to avoid attention but it was all the more reason to develop a really soft spot for him in my heart. The rest of the morning I found so much more appreciation in each one of the wonderful people that I get to work for. I kept looking at them and tearing up just thinking about how much I love them and how much I would miss them if they weren't here anymore but how easily one of them could pass away any day. Since I have been working here last August there have now been 3 clients from my facility pass away. I hope to do better at helping them to enjoy each day at work and to make the most of my time with them. July will be my last month here and I am not looking forward to saying goodbye.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-31772547367990248252011-05-22T19:03:00.000-07:002011-05-22T19:05:38.945-07:00My Mom; an Elect Lady<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">I’ve always known that my parents would do pretty much anything for me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But for my Mom especially, it seems very hard for her to see me go through hard times.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Throughout the years I have continually seen my Mom sacrifice herself for the needs of our family and I have always thought of her as the most compassionate, Christ-like person I know.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She has always been my greatest example of pure love on this Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I thought I understood what this meant but a couple of weeks ago she touched my heart in such a way that I did not know was possible.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Anyone outside of my family won’t know this but after trying for four years to conceive I was finally able to with the help of a fertility specialist, but then soon after ended up miscarrying.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’m sure you can all imagine the excitement that we felt of finally being able to conceive and then the huge let down that we then felt at finding out I miscarried.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are ok now and will just continue treatments at the clinic and we have hope that it will work again.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But just a few days after I found out I miscarried my parents came to visit for the day and make sure we were doing all right.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My Mom who is 64 told me that the other week she had been thinking about what she could do to help me and she actually thought about what if she carried our baby for me, and she was serious. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was completely shocked, I just told her that she was crazy and there was no way I would ever take the risk of her health by letting her do that but I was so completely touched that she would even consider that possibility for me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What a sacrifice to be willing to make.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’m pretty sure it’s harder for her to see me suffering than it is for me to actually suffer. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I feel so blessed to even know such a woman as her, nonetheless have her as my Mom. She has done and would do anything and everything for me; I love you so much Mom.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-66586960778373314572011-05-14T12:36:00.000-07:002011-05-14T13:23:12.290-07:00Feeling Blessed!!Maybe I'm speaking too soon and we won't end up liking Hailey but right now it just seems perfect for us. The more we think about it the more it seems like something that could really turn into a long-term thing for us and a great place to raise our family. It really just seems like such a miracle to me and I thought I would share. Since we have been married Liji has asked me several times where I picture us living long-term and settling down in but I have usually always put him off and shy'd away from answering him or discussing this topic because anyplace that I could realistically see us ending up, because of Liji's job and his need for a small town, I just couldn't see myself being happy there as well. All the things I wanted like, being within a few hours of my parents and our children's cousins, being near mountains and a ski resort, being in a smaller town(for Liji) but a place that still had fairly big size schools that would have good sports, music and arts programs for my kids and where they would get a really quality education(for me), being in a smaller town(for Liji) but a place that still seems kept up well and clean(for me), a place with a job for Liji that he would really enjoy and where he could make a decent income teaching to raise our family on, a place where we were both happy, ect., ect., I just COULD NOT actually see happening. For Liji it was a fun and exciting thing to talk about and it should have been for me too but it was just so hard because any of this places that he talked about living in were far from Utah and my family or in the middle of no-where with practically zero population, and just not exciting to me. I mean, I would get really stressed and worried thinking about this and would get really emotional or angry anytime Liji tried to make me talk about it. I just told him there was no point, it just stressed me out thinking about it, and we would just end up where ever we ended up and that would be where Heavenly Father needed us and where we were supposed to be. And then we were guided to this job in Hailey and it wasn't until thinking about it the other night that I realized that it has all the stipulations that I have ever really wanted. I mean it is just perfect for us and I really can't even believe that it actually exists. I felt so loved and understood by my Heavenly Father and for that I am so grateful. He really does know me and my desires(even my little ones) so perfectly and wants me and Liji to be happy(I've always known this but it just really sunk in for me). I don't know why we spend anytime worrying about the future; of course Heavenly Father will take care of us he always has and always will. Even if we end up somewhere else after Hailey and then somewhere else and somewhere else, I know that it will be where the Lord wants us to be and therefore the perfect place for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-82854276830441777632011-05-07T10:51:00.000-07:002011-05-07T11:06:20.132-07:00Life is moving us Forward<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Liji got a call Thursday for a really good teaching job offer in Hailey, IDaho. They told him that he was by far their best candidate and were really putting the pressure on him to give him an answer right away, but he put them off for a bit by telling them he wanted to see the school and Hailey first. The job is in a dual-immersion program where he will be teaching sophomore's World History in Spanish and from the beginning he has been really excited about it, it fits his abilities perfectly and they have the best pay by far of anywhere in the area. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Yesterday morning we took off for Hailey to find out what we think of it and we'll be here through Sunday to attend church here and see what the ward is like. We arrived around 10 am yesterday and went straight to the High School to meet with the Principle who wants Liji. Right away it was apparent that they really wanted Liji and what Liji loved the most is how supportive the administration seemed and all the other teachers were of him. He really felt appreciated. He stayed with them till 1 to observe, and I went to tour Hailey a bit. Hailey is a pretty small town of only 6,000 people 75 miles down hwy 73 from Twin Falls and it is 11 miles from Sun Valley Ski resort which is a really ritzy resort so this area is a pretty popular tourist place. We are surrounded by mountains and it is just gorgeous. Everything seems to be kept really nice and clean and the school is so nice. The principle told Liji that their budget is $80,000,000 and they only have 3,000 students so they are really supported by the community. They are the only school district in IDaho that is giving their teachers raises while everyone else is cutting back and laying off. After I picked up Liji from the school and they sent us over to the district office to talk to their Human resources department where they really schmoozed us over with the pay and benefits and all the other perks of living in Hailey. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; ">One reason that the salary is so high is because of the high cost of housing. Rent prices are higher than Logan, even though Hailey is in the middle of nowhere. It is however just 12 miles away from Sun Valley which really drives prices up. </span>He got to Liji with a lot of talk of hunting just 5 minutes away and getting huge bucks and tons of birds:) They wanted our answer by 3 so we took it all in and then went to a quiet place to pray about it. From the beginning I felt like this would be good for us even though I wasn't that excited about living in such a small town and we still felt really good about it and went back over to the school where Liji went in and accepted the offer! I waited longer than I expected to and he said it was because the principle had to take him around to practically everyone in the school announcing that he had accepted the job. Liji really likes how supported he feels there. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">From the beginning we have worried about this job because it means we will be farther than we planned from a fertility specialist but it just feels right and I guess Heavenly Father will help us with the rest. Boise is just 2 hours away which is how far I'm driving to the clinic now anyways. Hopefully I'm just pregnant before we come here in August. Just thought I'd give everyone an update; we are really excited if you can't tell:) We have always loved and wanted to stay in Idaho but knew that the pay in most districts wasn't enough to raise our family on, well here it is and we're just about half-way between my parents and Liji's parents. It will be about 6 hours either way; which is a do-able drive. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; ">Liji still has to graduate (he'll be defending his thesis on July 19th) and then he has a short contract to teach an ESL class at Utah State until the beginning of August, then we will come to Hailey. </span><div><br /></div></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-47462524766579061012010-08-26T11:00:00.001-07:002010-08-26T17:46:00.055-07:00CAUTION! This Could Get Long! First Stop: HAWAII!Liji is off to start of school meetings and lunch so I feel like I finally have a little bit of free time. Therefore, I'm finally going to be getting to our Summer Update. Since June we have stayed in 13 different States and I can't even count how many hours we've been in the car; but it was all worth it for the family and friends that we were able to visit with.<br />We started off by stopping in Hawaii for 10 days on our way home from Korea; and boy was it a fun 10 days!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNnnH-KucGomLxQGuXjb-fVMJnSOvEqWz_LY4_ZVrrGwNS6mPxKqTx4YRpFLdwifQ4d6jLXWLL4_ts1UICjf1-1httPPZhBYI4dD-66lkILioJER5gwRtQaW69LlRDSL1Eezv5lYF1Dw/s1600/P1120488.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509790733566535826" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNnnH-KucGomLxQGuXjb-fVMJnSOvEqWz_LY4_ZVrrGwNS6mPxKqTx4YRpFLdwifQ4d6jLXWLL4_ts1UICjf1-1httPPZhBYI4dD-66lkILioJER5gwRtQaW69LlRDSL1Eezv5lYF1Dw/s320/P1120488.JPG" /></a> We searched for sea creatures<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcag0fJBUxtakFhxWFGZ-M-QT6Z0EGRf9yq4hojRD-S730bWXUZ1lC84u3fdKtpN8BG7cKpL4QklJsQLS0-fi8T8yjgl3LZkmN9ucDuWE98WZkEaPLYJnWht3CYoAOyeP-_iZEtdonnI/s1600/P1120716.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509790719197940482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcag0fJBUxtakFhxWFGZ-M-QT6Z0EGRf9yq4hojRD-S730bWXUZ1lC84u3fdKtpN8BG7cKpL4QklJsQLS0-fi8T8yjgl3LZkmN9ucDuWE98WZkEaPLYJnWht3CYoAOyeP-_iZEtdonnI/s320/P1120716.JPG" /></a> We attended my nephew Charlie's baptism in the ocean and were the key note speakers.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_79WP-svsxE1vIV-OLYQyLDd51JEzG-zDTjX-kfwBSwyUFkOho4D08TQ7hePDNBCaV0tu3LS-jdV0I83iiu0dmsUCHYpzq5qWUT1K8fGzVxaBzdK3WRAkjfqVaKl6t1e5MESdheAKB_8/s1600/P1120714.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509790708818218434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_79WP-svsxE1vIV-OLYQyLDd51JEzG-zDTjX-kfwBSwyUFkOho4D08TQ7hePDNBCaV0tu3LS-jdV0I83iiu0dmsUCHYpzq5qWUT1K8fGzVxaBzdK3WRAkjfqVaKl6t1e5MESdheAKB_8/s320/P1120714.JPG" /></a> We had lot's of BBQ's in the park by the beach.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZsLUf0wKo5GK7A-aZlqgry_Hk0I2bwfxUe107ScndXeOH2MSle4A8k1HZ0w8zqW2EBS_Lv_Bgn7colVp7y1x5KNt1cpfdYL2BC3azSfGw2OuK18MgmKMcXfmQuBHOQilSRA1iLwm0Vt4/s1600/P1120687.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509789730027156562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZsLUf0wKo5GK7A-aZlqgry_Hk0I2bwfxUe107ScndXeOH2MSle4A8k1HZ0w8zqW2EBS_Lv_Bgn7colVp7y1x5KNt1cpfdYL2BC3azSfGw2OuK18MgmKMcXfmQuBHOQilSRA1iLwm0Vt4/s320/P1120687.JPG" /></a> Liji even caught his own meals:)<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUPrN787N9tt_HMfVdKUDsgqPidVQPe2UEcjnpW6HTWLbzBebbNn_39s6fbuKXeuQN2ezAnxtQgLBsayi4pZHowO6BccryaGu_17Yr2dnBTrxINutP3xtRU1r6I6ok0KQ9EQxnAs1Als/s1600/P1120683.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509789722176508690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUPrN787N9tt_HMfVdKUDsgqPidVQPe2UEcjnpW6HTWLbzBebbNn_39s6fbuKXeuQN2ezAnxtQgLBsayi4pZHowO6BccryaGu_17Yr2dnBTrxINutP3xtRU1r6I6ok0KQ9EQxnAs1Als/s320/P1120683.JPG" /></a> We tried out Paddle Boarding.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQf_lbLitF7wWH2jrnm96jp2xp_yzMLLb0aGE0f_2QK1fcRiv0-PiOBv4oUb0aCiEQnWRIBrSrmaquWAsm9sHA-iqyoB9Q4k9qjZ4M0UUoccOBZsJhY7MGsxkb_zF-PkJsta1qsm4pP8/s1600/P1120662.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509789692478114274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOI_LWAYwQYInY6ZNdpl_h2gy_oDyQev5G0D6zOIijVIh2OYage7Usm1L4I3351VsWw1isCtFerBDM6qA1pTBhw9d2ZHvC-bbTIXElMN50hwInzaJ3dOI1XQvKhkzTsToGD4aQuvC9G8/s320/P1120634.JPG" /></a> Found beatiful places to swim and play.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUW8mwM9ryue8r08iPSltchzckzWqUGRdJUy3b1sSiG35jc6brdvwZ93WVNqBko3ubrGImVJ0EGUtEyn6WZqncr39i-OKlgpzoAsSFDVpEAFGRbtfNDpxfbtrIFv3eVNBC1hOptEEvc/s1600/P1120604.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509787609045610370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVUW8mwM9ryue8r08iPSltchzckzWqUGRdJUy3b1sSiG35jc6brdvwZ93WVNqBko3ubrGImVJ0EGUtEyn6WZqncr39i-OKlgpzoAsSFDVpEAFGRbtfNDpxfbtrIFv3eVNBC1hOptEEvc/s320/P1120604.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8J3CjWpPPVTLYjmQntVoXXYofoCO8-J3FO2i7l5Z_c26TzL4RAivIAbOQrDrABYEhISvRo7ILUFiHAr9HrYsxTHW2J2LPP4mt1hD_MmVL1P2ijiQLqQCeC7Y0fUZAJd25td_C6r6VfY/s1600/P1120601.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509787606334123746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8J3CjWpPPVTLYjmQntVoXXYofoCO8-J3FO2i7l5Z_c26TzL4RAivIAbOQrDrABYEhISvRo7ILUFiHAr9HrYsxTHW2J2LPP4mt1hD_MmVL1P2ijiQLqQCeC7Y0fUZAJd25td_C6r6VfY/s320/P1120601.JPG" /></a> Made some twin island mountains to match the ones in view.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMjeTndrlpQu3eIi9K_LU5I8TnByJLKDJ6LspJ8y1zAZNsdataZ1Ub6dP0vZxF4HD4s_RXPw9FiqoqH7tqriYYbckvxbUPsw56OJ1qMaNzfo_hEnxMItqGGkDup0LXzefD5o01L4IvdnQ/s1600/P1120544.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509787590475771090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMjeTndrlpQu3eIi9K_LU5I8TnByJLKDJ6LspJ8y1zAZNsdataZ1Ub6dP0vZxF4HD4s_RXPw9FiqoqH7tqriYYbckvxbUPsw56OJ1qMaNzfo_hEnxMItqGGkDup0LXzefD5o01L4IvdnQ/s320/P1120544.JPG" /></a> Found some great rocks where the waves crash up HUGE on them!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRzEnVmYCwtJnHe0KhbPtHbiUDVoTCaQMd8dmDZ2sLF0ungTMiH5ky9YPafco08pTwcdk5dAu_L6m1wPgRhZ2hZqyNzwnT_QUhqhvpc2rfkTOyr8iC0wtHBEHdPFpNVYmLTrRyEFiLZA/s1600/P1120567.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509787584616139538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRzEnVmYCwtJnHe0KhbPtHbiUDVoTCaQMd8dmDZ2sLF0ungTMiH5ky9YPafco08pTwcdk5dAu_L6m1wPgRhZ2hZqyNzwnT_QUhqhvpc2rfkTOyr8iC0wtHBEHdPFpNVYmLTrRyEFiLZA/s320/P1120567.JPG" /></a>That's Liji in the middle of that wave.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOpUBKuM6n8Tdpr2__DiW4Cv2jd8J-45d2HJ3Y41K_xOcHdo0OjavMgVBcuCYgtFQ_KyEPrIFmQzIJ1t3vzAYqyc-NtmTV-KECcuo9-NA1sGV8AL9uVTkZxMT-ag9kdHPz5-YPnuKWFY/s1600/P1120558.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509787575968387746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOpUBKuM6n8Tdpr2__DiW4Cv2jd8J-45d2HJ3Y41K_xOcHdo0OjavMgVBcuCYgtFQ_KyEPrIFmQzIJ1t3vzAYqyc-NtmTV-KECcuo9-NA1sGV8AL9uVTkZxMT-ag9kdHPz5-YPnuKWFY/s320/P1120558.JPG" /></a> Before he got drenched:)<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhPP28ul0cOPVXWL0_NM0Jr7teZxsaD1T1ZsCWvDA3t4w3W0LqSgLXoDBEKJQWkbOFvvu3LB85LvBLYXGE20jm3HtHvXrkH0jUGt9vmry0kQpqbjPh2LAQaz3U16C-l0vCJdXLBw3pNc/s1600/P1120563.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509786252169603010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhPP28ul0cOPVXWL0_NM0Jr7teZxsaD1T1ZsCWvDA3t4w3W0LqSgLXoDBEKJQWkbOFvvu3LB85LvBLYXGE20jm3HtHvXrkH0jUGt9vmry0kQpqbjPh2LAQaz3U16C-l0vCJdXLBw3pNc/s320/P1120563.JPG" /></a> If you look close you can see me up at the top of the picture just out from the rock cliff.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKTzRV_7AiIAktqRSMjhnLcQdfM6f7jWAnV4f7ZzhO6jGb3wXutNPC4__pb018fM1rFTgUk9C29A9K4Lrgrg7r8Rn_MIzA-AfxEzu8lCij1ZiYz9k4zDa6xaoS6OOjIksqRnYVp7LsUQ/s1600/P1120622.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509786250014290674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKTzRV_7AiIAktqRSMjhnLcQdfM6f7jWAnV4f7ZzhO6jGb3wXutNPC4__pb018fM1rFTgUk9C29A9K4Lrgrg7r8Rn_MIzA-AfxEzu8lCij1ZiYz9k4zDa6xaoS6OOjIksqRnYVp7LsUQ/s320/P1120622.JPG" /></a> We hiked to a lot of beautiful waterfalls.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Q9kwZFkYMv0SiQUqiSFqc7ZKQQTg3EHNHKG9w5M7xeiV6x7rcC9wVi1MZumaHV8MUDW6NuDSiH_eYP-uvMuJ_ekBnwLv0glE3loTZY-zTBlTKOWEqVFWLtcXyzIeuXHKz5q-aYxRWyY/s1600/P1120537.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509786238993247154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Q9kwZFkYMv0SiQUqiSFqc7ZKQQTg3EHNHKG9w5M7xeiV6x7rcC9wVi1MZumaHV8MUDW6NuDSiH_eYP-uvMuJ_ekBnwLv0glE3loTZY-zTBlTKOWEqVFWLtcXyzIeuXHKz5q-aYxRWyY/s320/P1120537.JPG" /></a> Tried to see what it would feel like if we were Tarzan and Jane~!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqhuBu_2JVVS9W-N2eVaCZhyphenhyphenwp9LQO3hS7AMcyXjVHhwHxu6h9KSutMcLKo9ZSBnBX4qNdrhApYSCZ5xUGU43mDKAjUMx6vPRr3DBEKbh2o-eIk_wTvcTVun3dCXr9n1Owm3CyRMJVSPE/s1600/P1120513.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509786225339223938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqhuBu_2JVVS9W-N2eVaCZhyphenhyphenwp9LQO3hS7AMcyXjVHhwHxu6h9KSutMcLKo9ZSBnBX4qNdrhApYSCZ5xUGU43mDKAjUMx6vPRr3DBEKbh2o-eIk_wTvcTVun3dCXr9n1Owm3CyRMJVSPE/s320/P1120513.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-nr1fwlwlLXw01B_R2WnWJLZjq1N0EnSmACUCu4-x8tUpmdr8PojtcmeHxGmrAkHVo-yoWGeRQkBT53PXGkRr3D1cN4QMoZdZ99HFm3TBQPppMqiM9SocvGQ7Sfmrxw8AAVe8YvbwuA8/s1600/P1120509.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509786216360699490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-nr1fwlwlLXw01B_R2WnWJLZjq1N0EnSmACUCu4-x8tUpmdr8PojtcmeHxGmrAkHVo-yoWGeRQkBT53PXGkRr3D1cN4QMoZdZ99HFm3TBQPppMqiM9SocvGQ7Sfmrxw8AAVe8YvbwuA8/s320/P1120509.JPG" /></a>Got Wet, Wet, and Wet some more.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIrdyuCW4HpaegkccgoNYWrMZdIgut4f64f7z3T-ewiOO4QXiMrrChLiG_aKj0q6wNo43cQ2nRorMf7av9ybhKkojLGp3Sme9U3_64xrUlKA2P62DebPbSlnLoZDiQgAfEMqaUhmeSls/s1600/P1120490.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509784316123236162" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIrdyuCW4HpaegkccgoNYWrMZdIgut4f64f7z3T-ewiOO4QXiMrrChLiG_aKj0q6wNo43cQ2nRorMf7av9ybhKkojLGp3Sme9U3_64xrUlKA2P62DebPbSlnLoZDiQgAfEMqaUhmeSls/s320/P1120490.JPG" /></a> More Dinner! If you can't tell Liji was pretty excited about this one;)<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-y5K-77qthahI7X5l19rhRVMHmc4L9USM35w2G7fH3fDHcUnbUrHc_IUl1h3x_ocu3yku7eXGh2iXXevZ17lrKlNCcQoqdpmR3zJPFdtfaOOOKJlYarxa4rM-sCb6kHtrIdYN9XNei0/s1600/P1120482.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509784311730613426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-y5K-77qthahI7X5l19rhRVMHmc4L9USM35w2G7fH3fDHcUnbUrHc_IUl1h3x_ocu3yku7eXGh2iXXevZ17lrKlNCcQoqdpmR3zJPFdtfaOOOKJlYarxa4rM-sCb6kHtrIdYN9XNei0/s320/P1120482.JPG" /></a> Somewhere out there in the waves is Liji trying out surfing.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3QF1Ju1uCvYXkk_y8oegSjvGXuUjUt1r04O6wzq8UqznmxLcEJ0Zm2Wk-ZC8wEyf3qlyeQj4gcy0bWyAPvqsF-xDabpUhQeoIkUJBjdsGc-gZLxVtgSGJo8m89I5UIYoCiYwyhproNY0/s1600/P1120465.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509784296451718914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3QF1Ju1uCvYXkk_y8oegSjvGXuUjUt1r04O6wzq8UqznmxLcEJ0Zm2Wk-ZC8wEyf3qlyeQj4gcy0bWyAPvqsF-xDabpUhQeoIkUJBjdsGc-gZLxVtgSGJo8m89I5UIYoCiYwyhproNY0/s320/P1120465.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKppP-w6lNqsHnf-VEBUDp4-h7Vbm07Itj5CJ0xB4c-EOURX_q6eRFCpBAbiBOd9_rL4LB-E58nr7pAwNU9pS51k4HCkWjLyPMQc8Q16LYopWEUamKj19ldDj8wRpEQHK3JjABGkny1YA/s1600/P1120437.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509784289423538498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKppP-w6lNqsHnf-VEBUDp4-h7Vbm07Itj5CJ0xB4c-EOURX_q6eRFCpBAbiBOd9_rL4LB-E58nr7pAwNU9pS51k4HCkWjLyPMQc8Q16LYopWEUamKj19ldDj8wRpEQHK3JjABGkny1YA/s320/P1120437.JPG" /></a> Got to keep practicing our photo taking skills.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhierKOEobWLd5GHSwtBTWARSnq4VVoTMbh6mpSuJMR-I-niejbIRObpIMnmf7eZzZBzFBku1iD39ifUfwlSpS_vFk0qOCqZgr485Jb3huBxlzkDZHMWD4ddiyq-sc-mpRJ0DdKjPNkikA/s1600/P1120420.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509784282125420946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhierKOEobWLd5GHSwtBTWARSnq4VVoTMbh6mpSuJMR-I-niejbIRObpIMnmf7eZzZBzFBku1iD39ifUfwlSpS_vFk0qOCqZgr485Jb3huBxlzkDZHMWD4ddiyq-sc-mpRJ0DdKjPNkikA/s320/P1120420.JPG" /></a> Let's play; Where's Liji? He climbed some really massive trees.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfo9EfoiShoKBnPNi_XWaPcJQsJplevGQcyX3ReLi4hgWlBhmKD8maiL0QMIEM_8QhtfLR1ancvIfUfDWj9uoghD6XE2qNfSfQYbsYujmtzobR6XhByoLzn-Ai1saMtyOlW9a3OwmfiFU/s1600/P1120411.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509783278497773458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfo9EfoiShoKBnPNi_XWaPcJQsJplevGQcyX3ReLi4hgWlBhmKD8maiL0QMIEM_8QhtfLR1ancvIfUfDWj9uoghD6XE2qNfSfQYbsYujmtzobR6XhByoLzn-Ai1saMtyOlW9a3OwmfiFU/s320/P1120411.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0iSiL-PinRR8eksnNC3hcom_gLG-eZta-pO23pNg2Lps3VIohoxnVihSHC3BMaUsT2GzSD8UPv9AwNt7q7psF-si2NFZzSFuo-qPWO35qqeB38AGRaMrIdR3zo6mrLDzX4dhhh9D3J4/s1600/P1120379.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509783270003205938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0iSiL-PinRR8eksnNC3hcom_gLG-eZta-pO23pNg2Lps3VIohoxnVihSHC3BMaUsT2GzSD8UPv9AwNt7q7psF-si2NFZzSFuo-qPWO35qqeB38AGRaMrIdR3zo6mrLDzX4dhhh9D3J4/s320/P1120379.JPG" /></a>Hiked through the rainforest and got really muddy.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi93on1zG5NuBlcoQGGyth0ECI4RtGKiDsol_-v2g2KAWe0_Bj7hFTxQBCRbqkpc54byQxvhEzttGfqa83ZiM7cCVa0tTxGBwpx6wCBG1phA1nSGfV3SMntOLGCG-m5nugBFsKRgXSFLuU/s1600/P1120358.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509783260190308594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi93on1zG5NuBlcoQGGyth0ECI4RtGKiDsol_-v2g2KAWe0_Bj7hFTxQBCRbqkpc54byQxvhEzttGfqa83ZiM7cCVa0tTxGBwpx6wCBG1phA1nSGfV3SMntOLGCG-m5nugBFsKRgXSFLuU/s320/P1120358.JPG" /></a> Enjoyed some wonderful conversation with my long missed family.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6ZUpRvKl8d_xsHPerCjGuzjNXAe8i1ay0z6vBg8jfdelK_qKAfm2uftPj0HffUy_gjCsIgdYOg3ZYs8a05BKAu2gO3-yElDwWSGOsyhCB9OCmNR4ZBVmF_LvucpQEI_rx3O0QFqVjE8/s1600/P1120336.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509783250456865346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6ZUpRvKl8d_xsHPerCjGuzjNXAe8i1ay0z6vBg8jfdelK_qKAfm2uftPj0HffUy_gjCsIgdYOg3ZYs8a05BKAu2gO3-yElDwWSGOsyhCB9OCmNR4ZBVmF_LvucpQEI_rx3O0QFqVjE8/s320/P1120336.JPG" /></a> Dug out some pools in the sand with our adorable nieces.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRMLCdNjtNq4LbBmuVQXjHeu83nEhqoSNAkDKVuXLdUit5w5-M9tHezzkDfNB1ArebawuiOT-Rot5kCePg6XCFikvsSwDNIC6YvCAl3ngn8M4dKEZvpzJ4YJzQBL1SM95et_OkaBwQyc/s1600/P1120319.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509783235322305090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRMLCdNjtNq4LbBmuVQXjHeu83nEhqoSNAkDKVuXLdUit5w5-M9tHezzkDfNB1ArebawuiOT-Rot5kCePg6XCFikvsSwDNIC6YvCAl3ngn8M4dKEZvpzJ4YJzQBL1SM95et_OkaBwQyc/s320/P1120319.JPG" /></a>Watched some dolphins do some tricks with our very excited nephews.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCIXeRXY5I9FJp_cdEKNJ3Q27bmMfiBffIyUoXW87fTrbZxVSjqKAPifCzsL6dIe8lByRcb4MtgXvzm3L-3zMcXCtVPshJiXzTAbSmqxETcuv1VjcGcHINi5ldkCAW9GQhjcerOn6LGBw/s1600/P1120181.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509782122318200530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCIXeRXY5I9FJp_cdEKNJ3Q27bmMfiBffIyUoXW87fTrbZxVSjqKAPifCzsL6dIe8lByRcb4MtgXvzm3L-3zMcXCtVPshJiXzTAbSmqxETcuv1VjcGcHINi5ldkCAW9GQhjcerOn6LGBw/s320/P1120181.JPG" /></a> Swam in the hotels new tropical paradise pool.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_BIv2o3xyZEcaQQs06Mgik4n12LU09F_G05Zx95U3h3XfBnrSA6YjdHkTycIgv3XnR-NUqN47lxHHAgvFHMna3Wckni4c3o2-MYKgzQgAR6KvNZwjIbHcm0aFcQGxK2hvuvV-osd-jc/s1600/P1120305.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509782112772357746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_BIv2o3xyZEcaQQs06Mgik4n12LU09F_G05Zx95U3h3XfBnrSA6YjdHkTycIgv3XnR-NUqN47lxHHAgvFHMna3Wckni4c3o2-MYKgzQgAR6KvNZwjIbHcm0aFcQGxK2hvuvV-osd-jc/s320/P1120305.JPG" /></a> Did some more cliff jumping at sunset!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7w3h2neJw7deQeYmavLknkFhyTVGDYN8b5CrOJm3fmqSs4i4SLSKibPGLcKYzYRhjZRmxh4cqzidkP43YfJnKuSmy4DA5U6F8MspMesDALfAxWbcCiseHvPdHK9dImgcEoxosYIt3GM/s1600/P1120302.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509782102884150738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7w3h2neJw7deQeYmavLknkFhyTVGDYN8b5CrOJm3fmqSs4i4SLSKibPGLcKYzYRhjZRmxh4cqzidkP43YfJnKuSmy4DA5U6F8MspMesDALfAxWbcCiseHvPdHK9dImgcEoxosYIt3GM/s320/P1120302.JPG" /></a> Liji and my brother Paul gettin back from some fun in the waves.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPUb_xHsjfHS6ZbmXYRugFxVmZuB2KSh-9CgV4ONgTdBKLQlLSctJuCxN7zfm643JTyKeb7qiYGzfhVBJKfTz4rnYNyB4RRFFAWLKl7Pcqfy6gssLZdhEy7MkLHXv4XKLhvy_KLt26SE/s1600/2010-06-09+10.05.56%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 239px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509782095467824642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPUb_xHsjfHS6ZbmXYRugFxVmZuB2KSh-9CgV4ONgTdBKLQlLSctJuCxN7zfm643JTyKeb7qiYGzfhVBJKfTz4rnYNyB4RRFFAWLKl7Pcqfy6gssLZdhEy7MkLHXv4XKLhvy_KLt26SE/s320/2010-06-09+10.05.56%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a> And we of course left some time in there to go swim with some more sea turtles.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4NyynoNrCw1ejUHZ2qs3PgaYoarB8_hcnvyvx5s-Xj4Bgc2ZFLC0tAEumQUycBGlDZZKwLrtPQH4YKfsazcyskh5Ss01fzy2jQXILWLHZVEfJxTsi3z509DZQHUf2eGDVv3hVF9CHPXM/s1600/P1120309.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509782086820419730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4NyynoNrCw1ejUHZ2qs3PgaYoarB8_hcnvyvx5s-Xj4Bgc2ZFLC0tAEumQUycBGlDZZKwLrtPQH4YKfsazcyskh5Ss01fzy2jQXILWLHZVEfJxTsi3z509DZQHUf2eGDVv3hVF9CHPXM/s320/P1120309.JPG" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-86809124432568877232010-08-17T13:22:00.000-07:002010-08-17T13:31:30.521-07:00Finally SettledDon't really have time to update you on everything that has gone on in the last 2 and a half months since we've been back from Korea. I'll have to do that a bit later cause we have definately seen and done a lot. For now we made it to Logan yesterday and should be officially settling down. Getting everything organized right now and probably won't get to posting our summer pictures until after that's done; but we've stayed in 13 different states and I have now been able to see everyone on my side and Liji's side of the family. Thanks to everyone who put up with us, gave us beds, and fed us! We really do have the best family and are so happy to be closer to everyone.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-53651959078310359932010-07-28T21:34:00.000-07:002010-07-28T22:49:13.175-07:00Memory of a Lifetime<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvO59FLzZWS80RXwKTG7zlFWGvJ-8tyAyG2LPNxoTC_Vf5Xj5kbR-r1K1GZnZdvZ4ZmxpcIbuu8AArTSEyv8lWKMcFlkG45yM3TyOiAx3LoYIaOtmTH52tEED1KsJXEg03WjcKCjakBhU/s1600/P1130200.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499195725877456274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvO59FLzZWS80RXwKTG7zlFWGvJ-8tyAyG2LPNxoTC_Vf5Xj5kbR-r1K1GZnZdvZ4ZmxpcIbuu8AArTSEyv8lWKMcFlkG45yM3TyOiAx3LoYIaOtmTH52tEED1KsJXEg03WjcKCjakBhU/s320/P1130200.JPG" /></a> Sunday I drove to Nauvoo from Independence with my sister and her kids to spend a few days here seeing the sites. We both lived here for a semester of school so we both have very fond memories of the beautiful city. I hadn't been here yet in the summer when they have the pageant and all the other day shows and activites so we have been seeing a lot of shows, having ox and carriage rides, and visiting the old homes. My parents have also been here but left today. It has just been so fun to re-learn about and remember the early saints who sacrificed so much. When I went to school here before I got to live in the Joseph Smith Academy building(which no longer exists) just across the street from the new Nauvoo Temple. But I could only do Baptisms for the Dead at that time. I have been really excited to be able to go back to the Temple for an Endowment Session. I made my appointment for 4pm and then a little bit later for different reasons called and had it moved forward to 3pm. I was really excited to be back in the Nauvoo Temple and was praying that I would have a special experience. Well when I walked into the Chapel Elder Neil L. Anderson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was sitting there on the back bench with his wife. I gave him a huge smile and he smiled back. I went up a few rows and sat down and just couldn't believe who was sitting right behind me. We soon all went in to start and there was only 9 of us. I was so blessed today to have the privileage of being able to participate in a very small and beautiful Temple session with a man who is a special witness of Christ. Throughout the meeting I couldn't help but ponder on the early saints and I just felt such an overwhelming amount of gratitude for their strength and courage. I had strong feelings that I was meant to be there in the Temple at that time and with Elder Andersen to help feel of the Spirit of the Pioneers there with us in the Temple identical to the one they worked so hard to build so long ago. I felt that I need to have more courage and strength in hard times. It was an experience I will never forget. What a remarkable answer to my prayer. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is God's true Church. I know that He loves us and is so mindful of our needs; and even wants:) Jesus Christ is his Only Begotten Son. Please do not Doubt; but Believe!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYlUcYF47qSnz0Sziw1DbMeIr4puE342THN6z5jMr-feEXARjp2lqu8wKGO_FZe4lBU37i4IXT0iLub84uPLKx_HMMAFTpamaHewUmplaR_Ywj47R-ibdk2ia2Mh706KWZFg7izrl0rq4/s1600/P1130192.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499195716492930562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYlUcYF47qSnz0Sziw1DbMeIr4puE342THN6z5jMr-feEXARjp2lqu8wKGO_FZe4lBU37i4IXT0iLub84uPLKx_HMMAFTpamaHewUmplaR_Ywj47R-ibdk2ia2Mh706KWZFg7izrl0rq4/s320/P1130192.JPG" /></a> I Love the Sunset on the Mississippi!!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgadQCIWp_u77_ZxB9OEEjdIl9bN1N5RFA5qnvwxOFKqY87nxihOHKrofEGfpGkphHyqD_-JjHXE7y-xbTVF1N0UMHAWm1ortwj-EP6Pdrdg5yxiQMjXSUj5gUtlYGvPRIgvUjdX0Ivr4U/s1600/P1130195.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499195714090884098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgadQCIWp_u77_ZxB9OEEjdIl9bN1N5RFA5qnvwxOFKqY87nxihOHKrofEGfpGkphHyqD_-JjHXE7y-xbTVF1N0UMHAWm1ortwj-EP6Pdrdg5yxiQMjXSUj5gUtlYGvPRIgvUjdX0Ivr4U/s320/P1130195.JPG" /></a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-19145905420953780572010-07-16T12:21:00.000-07:002010-07-16T13:48:30.052-07:00Our Last few Days with the Students<div align="center">Oldest Class: Middle School 3rd Graders (Steve, Sandra, Jenny, Kristy, Jenny, Heather, Liji, Veronica, June)</div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnHdGcq8NsnAs9aaUJBaG9O66rVs3TFoJNuJJGa2ZbI-PjiusFPC29C1PM6eAJY6J10f9g3poC7RReM0ptIjiVkitqhQMqSw0ivhMeJT6cfRxBnNHoUuR31CSt7SwSGmpeFN-BWbRRtI/s1600/P1120159.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494598817538364386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnHdGcq8NsnAs9aaUJBaG9O66rVs3TFoJNuJJGa2ZbI-PjiusFPC29C1PM6eAJY6J10f9g3poC7RReM0ptIjiVkitqhQMqSw0ivhMeJT6cfRxBnNHoUuR31CSt7SwSGmpeFN-BWbRRtI/s320/P1120159.JPG" /></a>Middle School 2nd Graders (Leah, Monica, Emily, Christina, Lisa, Janet)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglk-Rmxpsd3PSXNid3k7Qk_3UsMlphnPaz_ruXDMtni7kLGV2Ck7cxMIBkvT9cQNTNtqre-1d3iyum5prAiGvKDmwo-Of0kjG87absKBbSqktNpww1CGEgWUIsnY11EAOPbTj51VtIZLQ/s1600/P1120151.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494598610619895394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglk-Rmxpsd3PSXNid3k7Qk_3UsMlphnPaz_ruXDMtni7kLGV2Ck7cxMIBkvT9cQNTNtqre-1d3iyum5prAiGvKDmwo-Of0kjG87absKBbSqktNpww1CGEgWUIsnY11EAOPbTj51VtIZLQ/s320/P1120151.JPG" /></a> Top to bottom (Chase, Harry, Howard, Steve, Blake, Lucas, Leah, Monica, Lisa, Emily, Janet)<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9sif22m-O4bph-RkPmUm7n6T5L9fngcVSQD3K2H_qv7gOadqtIJCNKLyNWUmPHTuDbsyq2yNpHPGwCpwI-mQ_fXeaS1zK5imGga9_oXemXi5goGVusZRCTJ2H4eCqj0wsn9cLBgM_Sw/s1600/P1120147.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494598591328864082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9sif22m-O4bph-RkPmUm7n6T5L9fngcVSQD3K2H_qv7gOadqtIJCNKLyNWUmPHTuDbsyq2yNpHPGwCpwI-mQ_fXeaS1zK5imGga9_oXemXi5goGVusZRCTJ2H4eCqj0wsn9cLBgM_Sw/s320/P1120147.JPG" /></a>Middle School 1st Graders (Brad, Jim, Jeff, Julian, Vin, Den, Luke, Tony, Kaleb)<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7lAZ-5YLfP9zBh4XIm09tt4x9JL04LN0h3A87nRF6EJ7smvu0J8V9eOdmDXapScBzdpcYHokblLUz3mW_sU3GKH7RBKSW6GNP8iF-NK8DrBqlWiYTSTIz6GvnT3gtbj77BLeaG6M6laA/s1600/P1120142.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494598583353996434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7lAZ-5YLfP9zBh4XIm09tt4x9JL04LN0h3A87nRF6EJ7smvu0J8V9eOdmDXapScBzdpcYHokblLUz3mW_sU3GKH7RBKSW6GNP8iF-NK8DrBqlWiYTSTIz6GvnT3gtbj77BLeaG6M6laA/s320/P1120142.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKmJLrUrRig1Glt_deY3q9eGz_I2Mlf3fMDYHAIl6ycIfrl8IUWgGwzhPJe_SBN5rtesp6ckDVytOtk6OrG_hnx_XsHWGksJ38bSkFU4tAyRExcDHmDfcaxOsFpCNE_Alk9zth38Ik7TQ/s1600/P1120138.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494597793765831250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWbEfKCaQHmN1GWG1deQIYfG1qriHHuC8iBoNdcEiN3RDgc7DGwT1ODMh1jnXDeHHXi9Np7IdkqoCP3KV2uhiN2_BdYlNeX4RUFbAiOOWRFL1ziCFwiDaEjuVUWiAB7URkFzMsfBQYrS8/s320/P1120107.JPG" /></a> 3-5th Graders (Sam, Michael, Tom, Ian, Adam, Katy, Alana, Tina, Emma, Vicky, Emily, Ella)<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEecVfU4wEBsYuYNdUhf2l43bTgnXEP8Y053W4kuyOQi7tzEVRUsBkqFq4m0RhD3DdC9lWNiCNDteHi1Z6YhA5wMLml4VSuKIFBHWZ3acgo4QyfgOK43p4PJDGDLeEbzw2h3SzAP-HRHc/s1600/P1120105.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494597779444692562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEecVfU4wEBsYuYNdUhf2l43bTgnXEP8Y053W4kuyOQi7tzEVRUsBkqFq4m0RhD3DdC9lWNiCNDteHi1Z6YhA5wMLml4VSuKIFBHWZ3acgo4QyfgOK43p4PJDGDLeEbzw2h3SzAP-HRHc/s320/P1120105.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_2Nk7XsjfxeYyhZx5IUiO4rhqq2R96Nt040akcEoB9giU_7JAP2WFn9cMDw0JfvQZT6PR3dzVebqqY_mdhKdhu0zuh-DloGpHkRtX3FaA_04OQQMpzEU1X2H7jCsfKr2BySN0LG83EI/s1600/P1120103.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494596855440416258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_2Nk7XsjfxeYyhZx5IUiO4rhqq2R96Nt040akcEoB9giU_7JAP2WFn9cMDw0JfvQZT6PR3dzVebqqY_mdhKdhu0zuh-DloGpHkRtX3FaA_04OQQMpzEU1X2H7jCsfKr2BySN0LG83EI/s320/P1120103.JPG" /></a> Mrs. Young and Jack<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIV9FWWmvfQWZVoLVRJ-cFOxLKkp6lV4jUzWaFam6dvIAFUsSiM-SkvGqnggpa0jlSuf0c0p-lqHm56OC2p8SftKmXD1u-2PK_Eq9-jM6cBKjdT5Ep8YZcG_SLLARLa4QdZ1Eo44SYRA/s1600/P1120094.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494596845709408722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIV9FWWmvfQWZVoLVRJ-cFOxLKkp6lV4jUzWaFam6dvIAFUsSiM-SkvGqnggpa0jlSuf0c0p-lqHm56OC2p8SftKmXD1u-2PK_Eq9-jM6cBKjdT5Ep8YZcG_SLLARLa4QdZ1Eo44SYRA/s320/P1120094.JPG" /></a>Our Youngest and Sweetest student (Nina)</div><div>We said our goodbyes to her in the afternoon but then that night as we were in with the oldest class there was a little knock on our door and there was Nina. Tears came to my eyes just seeing her there and I was so touched she came back. She had made us some little crafts and came to have another goodbye. She is one we will never forget. That morning she was the first one to the Academy and when she came into our office she came over to me, hugged my arm and whispered to me, "Mr. Waite and Mrs. Waite go uhm."(motioning her hands away) I nodded my head sadly and said, "Yea." Then she just squeezed my arm so tight and started moaning and saying, "nooooo." It was like the sweetest thing ever.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqbYO-70xZmd9wNdg2YHGmJeqlr7DZmFLkpeqe2z6cjCj2v_NthlZLn9_yqn6Z4SswbXeibWZl312IqObe_ZVYyNH7kleIqnIAiFnHcOAWKublIJbBK7QWgA17pnsMH6orPfEeEAIS4k/s1600/P1120170.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494596833990511314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqbYO-70xZmd9wNdg2YHGmJeqlr7DZmFLkpeqe2z6cjCj2v_NthlZLn9_yqn6Z4SswbXeibWZl312IqObe_ZVYyNH7kleIqnIAiFnHcOAWKublIJbBK7QWgA17pnsMH6orPfEeEAIS4k/s320/P1120170.JPG" /></a>Jenny, Veronica, and Grace some of our favorites.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHi19QnVAtWYnYUTJmaKlck_BYCSu3YXCc9KCrfhX_roEfC9fdyMb-RQwH4MO95yhrcXbooNLIiycrLd4C6jpSLyHG0DZI1Ds7RJaVEchxOqeQs6DPHND9szT5Qm0su09zLfT7HthNJA/s1600/P1120165.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494596828703932034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHi19QnVAtWYnYUTJmaKlck_BYCSu3YXCc9KCrfhX_roEfC9fdyMb-RQwH4MO95yhrcXbooNLIiycrLd4C6jpSLyHG0DZI1Ds7RJaVEchxOqeQs6DPHND9szT5Qm0su09zLfT7HthNJA/s320/P1120165.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7D6-VQ7lHo6uvhvcn0VOxceh_ufK2xTsg6X5UJmhcd2GeXE97_aU6F8mY8cBwU17y_kPV7q7yGYpFFpm25pQsUbVYPXKiFVItKKjbVh9b5PKLhd4AasZJ4Q2yUvPFxqXxBoBOdcxHkU4/s1600/P1120163.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494596818943910546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7D6-VQ7lHo6uvhvcn0VOxceh_ufK2xTsg6X5UJmhcd2GeXE97_aU6F8mY8cBwU17y_kPV7q7yGYpFFpm25pQsUbVYPXKiFVItKKjbVh9b5PKLhd4AasZJ4Q2yUvPFxqXxBoBOdcxHkU4/s320/P1120163.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQlRoa7r4X2JvVHibMRfABHWbo2iuNKPCdqUOeLlGdNoJAKTIo9E8RcT9cE1ik3jeiEqxQ5nmiazeZMJs_UhPTjalWDLwVCTx4VmzMovlX6RFKNIdJf5vMm9E-csgTLYk4rVkEfzDk1Ow/s1600/P1120164.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494596081552258946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQlRoa7r4X2JvVHibMRfABHWbo2iuNKPCdqUOeLlGdNoJAKTIo9E8RcT9cE1ik3jeiEqxQ5nmiazeZMJs_UhPTjalWDLwVCTx4VmzMovlX6RFKNIdJf5vMm9E-csgTLYk4rVkEfzDk1Ow/s320/P1120164.JPG" /></a>Leah was super shy when she came to the Academy and stayed that way for quite awhile; but we finally got her to open up a bit and ended up being one you could really see progress.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNctH14z2mnJMfmw9dsgKCEZVQu5UvhASGE9tXG5cgvWRHZ3KKKq6uPOSRCXEEODyS3ezT9mtGOSmT3Yv-PVGSco7XFK9TPnoAZoFiH3GG99Q3QinW7CWjI4v0Po1yZW2PUPj_2TkCOE/s1600/P1120153.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494596074850041442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNctH14z2mnJMfmw9dsgKCEZVQu5UvhASGE9tXG5cgvWRHZ3KKKq6uPOSRCXEEODyS3ezT9mtGOSmT3Yv-PVGSco7XFK9TPnoAZoFiH3GG99Q3QinW7CWjI4v0Po1yZW2PUPj_2TkCOE/s320/P1120153.JPG" /></a> My most favorite:) boys class.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9eYu_kCRyHjij14rWniujgry6-8JruFA-Jgfeq_3CumLxVoDayWWFtUznsOtDfCVf3r2uR3N7txN9TzGvCdCyk_Aizj-0m3R7Mq8WqCv7N3wUtkf24EsgCHBgpNlwyyYRLRKrVuu0wbY/s1600/P1120133.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494580191549721698" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAscpzex3iqhv76CpgQ0S1SHJexLjZsLHBOypOsT2OTjv4Gxze66njmmWoGWdPYZ2h_RgKfm2se-tCihU55_OM7bG8QVcWfWJoNAHIGMjf2IbFP6uaTERm9PaP23ciuuVoEe4dnokh3ec/s400/P1120166.JPG" /></a>Kim Nak June's Family: The father of this sweet little family was the first member of the Korean Ward that we met. Our first Sunday in Korea we only knew where the church building was but not what time the wards met, so we figured we should be there at 9am to be sure and not miss it. So we showed up about 8:50 and Kim Nak June was the only one in the building and he didn't speak any English. So he just showed us into a room to sit down and then the Elders showed up just a little bit later and filled us in on everything. Well when we stopped to say goodbye to this good family our last night in Korea Kim Nak June learned and memorized, "I wish you the best of luck with your life in America," to say to us. His wife and son speak English really well and they said that he had been practicing that all day. We will really miss this family and their great example.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsQ6m6XLvwMo1pNqkddcK1oGu1KYFGJpEoLRWOJ12FXaW8lyDPduFkEMgOohxQJ-km7ARpZFil0kESQfXA1lTshlEA0zUypjYYHoC0LgMAnWgk3CA6pRict7TuS8hol83ju8zfP5xoc6w/s1600/P1120168.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494580181412592786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsQ6m6XLvwMo1pNqkddcK1oGu1KYFGJpEoLRWOJ12FXaW8lyDPduFkEMgOohxQJ-km7ARpZFil0kESQfXA1lTshlEA0zUypjYYHoC0LgMAnWgk3CA6pRict7TuS8hol83ju8zfP5xoc6w/s400/P1120168.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgK_ezeaeGru8ncHlG-GO9xDaBl5c8BEsd7halQLtJNGYSylFOjvmWNIXI3pPVxzU4Mio4lYC18fxCGmBRZFrJpfHjS-73PG1kfqlg-Y0gdHaip-W4jKc8WxXN9Cbm9yMsOdMcmq7rbbI/s1600/P1120169.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494580168525729874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgK_ezeaeGru8ncHlG-GO9xDaBl5c8BEsd7halQLtJNGYSylFOjvmWNIXI3pPVxzU4Mio4lYC18fxCGmBRZFrJpfHjS-73PG1kfqlg-Y0gdHaip-W4jKc8WxXN9Cbm9yMsOdMcmq7rbbI/s400/P1120169.JPG" /></a> Saying good bye to our last Elder in Korea; Elder Brassfield.<br /><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5UkokgAcApgLVnZTbEH0STAkIvrfPhPwtUm6PU3M38mX_tsGpBHL3WnNh6TvWuPNiaPX0DGa63qfCZVZnsyDgGbNVGqV4Ls29FJrEwkAcnlOuodDPIks3pnKUCEf3GGdlNW-AT838F4/s1600/P1110993.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494578639026964418" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5UkokgAcApgLVnZTbEH0STAkIvrfPhPwtUm6PU3M38mX_tsGpBHL3WnNh6TvWuPNiaPX0DGa63qfCZVZnsyDgGbNVGqV4Ls29FJrEwkAcnlOuodDPIks3pnKUCEf3GGdlNW-AT838F4/s400/P1110993.JPG" /></a> The Bishop's Wife and I. She could hardly speak any English but tried so hard to communicate with me none the less and help me feel comfortable and at home.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlnRcA1TkaX28dQ9fDrMXfhVQQllwD49uiO7t_d1fFlu_Jytp_P4enoKR3BZt_h_XusWV0yx-48fmJoxqxYYIkXJrO75LmruKuoPX9sC3w2gKLWWwYyX3LSQd4docSBdzEpFLQ2gGv84/s1600/P1110994.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494578633616783442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlnRcA1TkaX28dQ9fDrMXfhVQQllwD49uiO7t_d1fFlu_Jytp_P4enoKR3BZt_h_XusWV0yx-48fmJoxqxYYIkXJrO75LmruKuoPX9sC3w2gKLWWwYyX3LSQd4docSBdzEpFLQ2gGv84/s400/P1110994.JPG" /></a> Here we are with Jason; one of Korean Ward's forever investigators. <div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Du8KK7JaDJVvRTfS7957crwIF2OzKpuELhyphenhypheniwW4AiONq9QOJdIF6K_81LYRHGHwVgmoVuXdt4TMg3sCRjffPS0sn1kNsCSyeft0iRCJNLv33xEJov4LGomt284GoxCds9KuxteEjWtQ/s1600/P1120072.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494578620266498818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Du8KK7JaDJVvRTfS7957crwIF2OzKpuELhyphenhypheniwW4AiONq9QOJdIF6K_81LYRHGHwVgmoVuXdt4TMg3sCRjffPS0sn1kNsCSyeft0iRCJNLv33xEJov4LGomt284GoxCds9KuxteEjWtQ/s400/P1120072.JPG" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-49510361138439343632010-07-16T11:35:00.000-07:002010-07-16T11:43:47.417-07:00Goodbye's at the Base<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5woazxKlGLY7ulx8T3Xt1SLwqLS9gsrmBvAGGoyxr1DVzZvSdDtgxMezJWJl417ur9yiIpNxOKxrZ9Wp38fMEks2j_fMq9uuvwqV9nvrm3Z8U6XqpEEYiAbU-YFTSb-CQffcqo90ynE/s1600/P1120085.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494575537671341602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5woazxKlGLY7ulx8T3Xt1SLwqLS9gsrmBvAGGoyxr1DVzZvSdDtgxMezJWJl417ur9yiIpNxOKxrZ9Wp38fMEks2j_fMq9uuvwqV9nvrm3Z8U6XqpEEYiAbU-YFTSb-CQffcqo90ynE/s400/P1120085.JPG" /></a> James, Jason, Pres. Ault, Christina, Liji, Elder, Jeremy, Elder Brassfield, Matt, Shaylee (left to right)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhsoZ-q-CknJiPj3OdrybiJib2cKHIoz4reluHLFLzYfAbuRksce9yHZKEf-uZsL2JDIcXyCl9S_cVcjomcihHZxVnLs4PVkMYI6iJgyck7J6z8lLyJT_hw6KNu3hLgKFNa02XJkyKKhQ/s1600/P1120084.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494575534560703762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhsoZ-q-CknJiPj3OdrybiJib2cKHIoz4reluHLFLzYfAbuRksce9yHZKEf-uZsL2JDIcXyCl9S_cVcjomcihHZxVnLs4PVkMYI6iJgyck7J6z8lLyJT_hw6KNu3hLgKFNa02XJkyKKhQ/s400/P1120084.JPG" /></a>Liji, Steve, Jeremy, Christina, Liza (Those of us groupies still left over from last year)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1dh6sZ5-LHrPUqOeZ2zL0SC9hGiKbFUL_GuP490WBGHGMaecN9HgITpWbjc6eGtaGBDLuDwm0fa3c4RqjHZLPRYylYuZp9k-i9dUMlXqYPCM6eyR6fTCEIi-QJWENUkzl_nMcI6Rf-Kc/s1600/P1120087.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494575524472475458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1dh6sZ5-LHrPUqOeZ2zL0SC9hGiKbFUL_GuP490WBGHGMaecN9HgITpWbjc6eGtaGBDLuDwm0fa3c4RqjHZLPRYylYuZp9k-i9dUMlXqYPCM6eyR6fTCEIi-QJWENUkzl_nMcI6Rf-Kc/s400/P1120087.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjGl1QriomMqX5B046XrdMK9ZsUjRW1CS-EqiqsrxY3P5ehVwRm_8-T_belbNqVH0bVdn6SYKIl0fuTH5iG3aZyD5h4Y32ymIwf2Yobn3ywscxK8KGx0nc8f9eWI46ZgRnbf4VE41fFk/s1600/P1120082.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494575496008189170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjGl1QriomMqX5B046XrdMK9ZsUjRW1CS-EqiqsrxY3P5ehVwRm_8-T_belbNqVH0bVdn6SYKIl0fuTH5iG3aZyD5h4Y32ymIwf2Yobn3ywscxK8KGx0nc8f9eWI46ZgRnbf4VE41fFk/s400/P1120082.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8qYGK_EX0FZ9AVMiu87m75IHIirfvalipKA4Wz8jRwl1-VN8QO_LAJPM3skxEWSRriACNs3RHq0EfnDHLWdgr3ucWci971HFtn1HQFKrkoGuE-l1t0dsacStf86qBjkARorUzVB8-xxE/s1600/P1120083.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494575488919783906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8qYGK_EX0FZ9AVMiu87m75IHIirfvalipKA4Wz8jRwl1-VN8QO_LAJPM3skxEWSRriACNs3RHq0EfnDHLWdgr3ucWci971HFtn1HQFKrkoGuE-l1t0dsacStf86qBjkARorUzVB8-xxE/s400/P1120083.JPG" /></a></div></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-18319911066411846672010-07-16T11:25:00.000-07:002010-07-16T11:34:53.932-07:00Seriously SpoiledJude Yeon seriously spoiled us with Korea memorabilia! She didn't want us to forget about her or our time in Korea; how could she ever even think that that could be a possibility? <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HFCD9kL9nZFihFH7EvEv3_IDtMfac-Ma9AErd_tsJ6bQmV-CyzmP_tOdUfcUttwRy_i3nCWaEVhBqS-VgRBA-zen7fNk7dt-_erx9MuZQzbrheN8Y7Qukqg5r2RHu6FWJ6OCbJz_smI/s1600/P1110907.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494573055236182930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HFCD9kL9nZFihFH7EvEv3_IDtMfac-Ma9AErd_tsJ6bQmV-CyzmP_tOdUfcUttwRy_i3nCWaEVhBqS-VgRBA-zen7fNk7dt-_erx9MuZQzbrheN8Y7Qukqg5r2RHu6FWJ6OCbJz_smI/s400/P1110907.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmVsBsMwJPmFWtFP23-KMvb_YouqE1a2tHE4WdIXjl1GVUTFiW8ntVfmPg2RLAs6tIEKJmoYjQxDoj9G7Q-cxxwSKCts3KXwD7bct3w9SWxVqrOeCBZwlXQ2s22tlKttdluex4C66DME/s1600/P1110916.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494573048525929506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmVsBsMwJPmFWtFP23-KMvb_YouqE1a2tHE4WdIXjl1GVUTFiW8ntVfmPg2RLAs6tIEKJmoYjQxDoj9G7Q-cxxwSKCts3KXwD7bct3w9SWxVqrOeCBZwlXQ2s22tlKttdluex4C66DME/s400/P1110916.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyPxZ2FW72WSf_r9wLB2fPkexs1sW2FMjDpY7VqFqr3ChSg5KvHhxj-pZYqgooUzJopHGER3mKDARQSgcntCD4N-juJSIXPhDLQ_9hpF0vlRjvPFe8QpvzTz2yXWpy1hciuqDreZtEN0/s1600/P1110908.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494573038772940034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyPxZ2FW72WSf_r9wLB2fPkexs1sW2FMjDpY7VqFqr3ChSg5KvHhxj-pZYqgooUzJopHGER3mKDARQSgcntCD4N-juJSIXPhDLQ_9hpF0vlRjvPFe8QpvzTz2yXWpy1hciuqDreZtEN0/s400/P1110908.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSSbPWQSJxmxqv7hsrXzRQlNvvFSb2UC7ACJdAZ4rEhV1fliI4nXCJeTEidZ5GfhV4TWf086Bz70HLn8m92SHYbg7WPSnuTjSRHlndClsvfUEt1ZizDO7TC_OC6fbq0TnWkrFrIAeKz8/s1600/P1110910.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494573030674329442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSSbPWQSJxmxqv7hsrXzRQlNvvFSb2UC7ACJdAZ4rEhV1fliI4nXCJeTEidZ5GfhV4TWf086Bz70HLn8m92SHYbg7WPSnuTjSRHlndClsvfUEt1ZizDO7TC_OC6fbq0TnWkrFrIAeKz8/s400/P1110910.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7rJGVX_WNEdyhx5ZlgZMpCmSHPwbW9Xd1ni42MUQ8pCQSjyghTp38dmQEIs7xh0AMXxhDwZfozdwXwacHgRx4KKOSdWa7Bg_7ERfql4o4S5S6kXDTkQKURmcF9nXVj31IQ1bKFAOsjwA/s1600/P1110911.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494573022440033298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7rJGVX_WNEdyhx5ZlgZMpCmSHPwbW9Xd1ni42MUQ8pCQSjyghTp38dmQEIs7xh0AMXxhDwZfozdwXwacHgRx4KKOSdWa7Bg_7ERfql4o4S5S6kXDTkQKURmcF9nXVj31IQ1bKFAOsjwA/s400/P1110911.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-9983222449881991902010-07-16T09:40:00.000-07:002010-07-16T11:25:51.660-07:00Farewell LunchOur 2nd to last day our boss took us out to lunch at a popular Italian Restaurant in town. She, along with the other two teachers, were so nice and showered us with great Korean traditional souveniers. We had our difference of oppinions and miscommunications over the last year, but overall we feel really lucky to have been placed at such a great school. Our boss really did do her best to look out for us and make sure that we had a very fun year.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEherLysvcMYc8Y8_B_BeUoPP4bwqC5W6dCyfKtINZMUtjDU6V0ykAG2hVL0KM6pwbpuqH2gyUIjYouwOAVpI1VS6WhKtkNpRalueCVPf_krkw_SrE59rz4y8fNaAOEmWLK86PR4ZopItyc/s1600/P1120008.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494570081867597570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEherLysvcMYc8Y8_B_BeUoPP4bwqC5W6dCyfKtINZMUtjDU6V0ykAG2hVL0KM6pwbpuqH2gyUIjYouwOAVpI1VS6WhKtkNpRalueCVPf_krkw_SrE59rz4y8fNaAOEmWLK86PR4ZopItyc/s400/P1120008.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtibIu1MkKOi0Z5IuKa4UdOKfAgEpiJ8MjTh5F2388peU9hRvbSP5lfHiTyTJ5ngVC0xDyB8SHVXHtDIdH3Xtzrz4ipun5mNa_CFi82-1oviCpCiv2tReX3WHNvFwVmNbKjQvUkaEM60/s1600/P1120002.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494570042870927042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizlETuxu8cYCj7nZ1eg2Y5YfGp9XHEDe02NJZymqcs_hzWjWOkrNogPt1bSGr4U9WhKi3khR9ISY-f8EafgOF29dyQvfprtrRaKU7ZrAD_wCrNqYHEVad1kRdq1QDx3B240tDQ3XzKufM/s400/P1120003.JPG" /></a></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-59270315423712658832010-07-16T09:31:00.000-07:002010-07-16T09:40:02.852-07:00Our Last DaysWe went back to the GhaiBi(the first Korean place we ate at) to finish off our time in Korea and to thank Jude Yeon and Chi Hoon for all the help that they gave us during our year here.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCybmHunjtPwcFMXkATwIA75l7Tch3Wd2Rb8SeULCXV03kG2YuRlhkdYmxnRs40sZTRmv_wTyXD7y-ckNhIgJmZ6dpgc_vsBZ8Lu9aweEy9mRUOWy8r0GSNoDQOIon1PCwxnZvONT5jtc/s1600/P1110983.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494543398434475794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCybmHunjtPwcFMXkATwIA75l7Tch3Wd2Rb8SeULCXV03kG2YuRlhkdYmxnRs40sZTRmv_wTyXD7y-ckNhIgJmZ6dpgc_vsBZ8Lu9aweEy9mRUOWy8r0GSNoDQOIon1PCwxnZvONT5jtc/s400/P1110983.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qPq0pty0OGUwY7BjMpQ0USlKohbs_3blEIW9dOG8LfYyzWbkB5m2xtDpRMolqERvP0-KkXXeeoBK479OKvhbeCFFkSscKrbn7H5saD5J5nrN8dEoX83LPGkBI6V_C8lBG43gmJdYbNA/s1600/P1110984.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494543391392027906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qPq0pty0OGUwY7BjMpQ0USlKohbs_3blEIW9dOG8LfYyzWbkB5m2xtDpRMolqERvP0-KkXXeeoBK479OKvhbeCFFkSscKrbn7H5saD5J5nrN8dEoX83LPGkBI6V_C8lBG43gmJdYbNA/s400/P1110984.JPG" /></a> Then we took them to a new Cold Stones in town.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyb0cE5jG6_tigofhrJImRBm0yHjc-_xJQinGmYL38xa-RxJLH2HKeYyrn3A90zX6QW1kei3npEuIoOkxRnvzi57D-d4ubf90fgizhtFP73S0Vow_zZaKoP1Pn0vNqlTIV5N2t4klE9Q/s1600/P1110987.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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She was super scared, but loved the thrill of it.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDicqlWEd3OxsQVsNopwzoOzHqRHYuV3Gg91k5imJLHhCeFlDtfxDO2n5QwZu1kEJwjWdZKc0g24-4rYpW_G3tPNPU_2-pGNsdIAp6uiT37v2EK41R16pTGTHcLxELhWQ3RtDlscd5BY/s1600/P1110991.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494543359687001458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDicqlWEd3OxsQVsNopwzoOzHqRHYuV3Gg91k5imJLHhCeFlDtfxDO2n5QwZu1kEJwjWdZKc0g24-4rYpW_G3tPNPU_2-pGNsdIAp6uiT37v2EK41R16pTGTHcLxELhWQ3RtDlscd5BY/s400/P1110991.JPG" /></a></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-83038068248596444312010-07-16T09:14:00.000-07:002010-07-16T09:30:55.381-07:00Exploring Sucheon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYe1Rabsg1Jp3iE5yDB731TQUI0m5hdYAufGPcMfXbRMkCIXoqp7IlbOKf4jIcz2uJEG3vRbU1R-CM6egxOIfGpq_uDHiN9UPbKnZlXoRKQTsomOeC5u3PdNGSkmIVEGTOHDOAi5HLfj8/s1600/P1110918.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494541459177020978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rf7Yi3c8mAfIuS834Huzb8eG5kL0WNLOo0Cry-KcYSwagLNSpa1QLQsJjbhL1BEdV1NKV5zPrdM8sCuJyq2v8JCy4hGlYUg9yy5I6qkuPx74T0ZdZXt5B29kZ1BdtwM-6_TJ-vpSNXQ/s400/P1110961.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfF4-xy_j8eSktmQhMg916g8LRQWq5ri9IDv7tXtUE4Tjmx9Ag1po5Dw2YjWDvzKsh3VbBObZeqOHDnD5vpRC8DCmDiEUE-hK370T6rniA7XMDV4JJYtYbhebkuqdhtC21IrkYlL-SOms/s1600/P1110963.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494540451732758946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfF4-xy_j8eSktmQhMg916g8LRQWq5ri9IDv7tXtUE4Tjmx9Ag1po5Dw2YjWDvzKsh3VbBObZeqOHDnD5vpRC8DCmDiEUE-hK370T6rniA7XMDV4JJYtYbhebkuqdhtC21IrkYlL-SOms/s400/P1110963.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ0reJA42Dn2GMcJoC8rmbEmyeZ1BP_P7pVlRC0D3HRiPlq-cb8aKlUbcqNlJQJNrG2ZT-rQaFIgY6NZ5q0tOCvkXXhw3UPkJgX3xBExQtuTNZHBHEmuqIWnyyguI97vtSiouizRRvop8/s1600/P1110973.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494540440993919330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ0reJA42Dn2GMcJoC8rmbEmyeZ1BP_P7pVlRC0D3HRiPlq-cb8aKlUbcqNlJQJNrG2ZT-rQaFIgY6NZ5q0tOCvkXXhw3UPkJgX3xBExQtuTNZHBHEmuqIWnyyguI97vtSiouizRRvop8/s400/P1110973.JPG" /></a> A very strange group of dressed up singing men.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW30bA-3Xphy-KyIYIeCjZpG4gIbhFoTyPs_s9GePO6YWiVH3od2R4t5eD_e_Vl6Jxt11wI_AkqyeylxUuXE4hYRdjFGOhKrKXzT5ovhXfm3U6Ze671TarYi1vznNKBo5SKU2hD5zkfk0/s1600/P1110942.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494540431904708546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW30bA-3Xphy-KyIYIeCjZpG4gIbhFoTyPs_s9GePO6YWiVH3od2R4t5eD_e_Vl6Jxt11wI_AkqyeylxUuXE4hYRdjFGOhKrKXzT5ovhXfm3U6Ze671TarYi1vznNKBo5SKU2hD5zkfk0/s400/P1110942.JPG" /></a>Getting ourselves drawn Oriental style:)<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BdKM71sHwr_9wS0iGkWdghGl23yLCkoCONtse-5SB9h_5gXU222ZUFZzH78oqAOusE-TpgcuqKcrL_L1yzpdzDfbsnvm5Rrww9AXmPjPF_gmMmVe9Omz2hsFZGt5E4TXDplmkEFNvkw/s1600/P1110933.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494540419052847410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BdKM71sHwr_9wS0iGkWdghGl23yLCkoCONtse-5SB9h_5gXU222ZUFZzH78oqAOusE-TpgcuqKcrL_L1yzpdzDfbsnvm5Rrww9AXmPjPF_gmMmVe9Omz2hsFZGt5E4TXDplmkEFNvkw/s400/P1110933.JPG" /></a>What do you think? Can you see the likeness?<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSE7oLapLkEcG8V3ttovbYlpwmw9l5Fs6YzTkAcIEbTqXzPJUnH6L8WaVjujlh4eNo2cRLKMsONnGs2Mx6BvOEXi_7scgZ1rnHSM0-BLr3CA2FPbCUqRBY0CVqRI-JNaaDdW7conmWtkI/s1600/P1110982.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494540401013127298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSE7oLapLkEcG8V3ttovbYlpwmw9l5Fs6YzTkAcIEbTqXzPJUnH6L8WaVjujlh4eNo2cRLKMsONnGs2Mx6BvOEXi_7scgZ1rnHSM0-BLr3CA2FPbCUqRBY0CVqRI-JNaaDdW7conmWtkI/s400/P1110982.JPG" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580541750711347637.post-66123964266407648892010-07-16T08:56:00.000-07:002010-07-16T09:14:16.884-07:00Hanuk Village in JeonjuI'm just gonna be posting a bunch of pictures that we haven't gotten to yet since things have just been super crazy since we left Korea.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxiscuboYyD702wC4nvevLE6E5U5F5ff8GLOH_UxW8O3fouNg1ekm9WYIp7hlJGyZqZABt9GTYvWtIE_JBumP-pQ7JIce5R7eqQ8-hH0yhJF2g0mqliLewpO6u89dejtggT3uM6wQXPk/s1600/P1110831.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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After Hawaii, where we had a blast (and might post some pictures soon of this) we went Oregon for a very short visit with the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Waites</span>. After most of the new nieces and nephews on the Olsen side ran from me, I was glad to have all of the nieces and nephews from the Waite side run to me. I really missed them a lot.<br />We also got to spend some time with one of Christina's old roommates. We went to a cabin and lake in central Washington, it rained until the day we left, but we still had a great time. We wanted to spend more time in Oregon but we kept feeling like we needed to get to Logan to find housing. I was especially torn because my brother really needed help with a fencing <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">contract</span> that he had. We didn't have a ride to Utah, but by luck (or most likely divine intervention) I met up with my old institute teacher and we found out he was going to Utah the next Monday. I really wanted to stick around Oregon another week because a cousin was returning from a mission, and another cousin was blessing his baby, but in the end we took the free ride to Utah.<br />We spent a day getting insurance and clearing up some other errands, and then we went to Logan. We spent the first day trying to find a cheap mobile home without success. That night we drove up <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Logan</span> canyon and camped out. The next day we gave up looking for a trailer and started looking for apartments. We called about 27 zillion numbers, but didn't have much success, but we did find a lot of places in our price range. After we had spent most of the day driving around and calling people that didn't answer their phones, we decided to check out an apartment that Christina had found that was listed <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">just</span> that morning.<br />We looked at it and liked it but found out that there was another couple who had filled out an application before us. The apartment was right across the street from campus, and only one block from the building that all of my classes were in, we really wanted it. It was one of the cheapest apartments that we had found, and it was in such a great location, the managers assured us that they never had any trouble filling vacancies, but that they would call us if the other <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">couple</span> decided not to take the apartment.<br />By that time we were both tired of the search, but we kept looking and did not make much progress. What I don't understand is why people list apartments for rent and then never answer their phones? Don't they want to rent them out? Or are they so sure of filling them that they only answer the phone <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">occasionally</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">just</span> to make it more interesting? Anyways, we got really annoyed with the search and decided to call it a day. We camped out again in Logan Canyon and went to the library the next morning to charge our phone and check to see if any new apartments had been listed. We didn't find any promising leads, and were just waiting for the phone to finish charging when we got a call (we had left about 27 zillion messages the day before, so we were hoping to hear something good) it was the place right across from campus, and the other couple didn't want the apartment. I ran down the hill to give them the money for a background check, and if we pass, we have the apartment.<br />We feel that we have been very blessed to find a cheap apartment so close to campus. As always, everything seemed to just fall into place when we needed it most. We will be in Lindon for a little while longer, then we're off to Logan. We are excited to start this new stage in our life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1