Russell in the Bay of Islands

We stayed at the Duke of Marlborough in Russell

The Chandelier in our hotel room

 In early days as the sailors came in, Russell was known as the 'Hell Hole' of the Pacific

 On Saturday it was their community anniversary

Their community theater put on a street show making fun of the 'Hell Hole' days

 They had a handicraft fair going on as well

We loved this quilt!

 These are Kauri vases and pots in one of the shops

 Beautiful flowers - The white trumpet

At church on Sunday, we ran into Elder Silva.

We met Elder Silva at the NZ Airport when we arrived on our mission here.

He is a wonderful missionary from Brazil!

 We followed this truck hauling a Loo on the road home

 We saw this inside one of the shops

New Missionaries, Radmacher's and Otara Market

It was exciting to have 2 Senior Couples and 1 Senior Sister
enter the MTC.
Elder & Sister Fillmore are serving in Samoa at Vaiola.
Elder & Sister Stewart and Sister Beck are serving in Kiribati.

We were so blessed to have Richard and Linda Radmacher visit us!
We served together in Tonga. We sure loved having them!
They recalled having their favorite hamburger at Burger Fuel.
They wanted it again!

Linda wanted a Coke. We stopped at the nearest shop in the mall to get it!

 Fish & Chips for lunch in Mission Bay

 Two great men at Mission Bay beach

Such wonderful friends!

See you soon in the states!
On Saturday I went with some of the sisters to Otara Market.

 Fun, beautiful ladies

Kris Saunders, Dyan Harris, Michi Matsumori, and Kathy Williams

Sister Harris wanted to find a silver pinky ring in this pile of rings! 😀😂

During the month we celebrated Elder Haleck's 70th Birthday.

At Family Home Evening, we celebrated Elder Rowberry's birthday

 We learned how to play the Maori Sticks!!
I will be teaching our grandchildren!

 We took an evening to go to a movie and dinner

 Atleast this fire drill was during the day 😊

 Bryce captured me while working with Sister Bunker and teachers on Zoom.
I was sharing activities they could do in their class to help with English & Math.

 Malcolm donned a new S&I tie and Michael's green jacket!

 As we were walking home, we saw this sign at the construction site by our apartment! 😂