Walkabouts & Wallabies

  A Miracle From Heaven A Miracle from Heaven arrived this week. After 8 years of waiting, our little Oaklee Sage was born. We missed her by 6 ½ days but we love her from halfway around the world. Big sister Remi has waited and waited for a sibling. Many times she would tell me when I picked her up from school “Grandma, I am the only one in my class without a sibling”. She is so excited for this baby sister and will be the best big sister. The cousins are also excited for the new baby. Monday, after being in Albany for only 5 days, we made the LONG ride back to Perth for Zone Conference. Compared to Albany, Perth was HOT but it was a great week filled with spiritual instruction from President and Sister Wi Repa and the youth leaders. We met lots of amazing missionaries! We are in awe of what spiritual giants they are. We feel so blessed to be able to serve with them. While at Zone Conference we were able to attend the Perth temple and enjoy the blessings of the temple. We were ...

We have Arrived in Australia…..finally 38 hours 47 minutes….that’s how long our journey was from Utah to Perth Australia.  Salt lake to Chicago (3 hours 20 minutes—our first time ever having to have the plane de-iced)…. Chicago to Hong Kong (15 hours 55 minutes—how do they even carry that much fuel??)…. Hong Kong to Perth (7 hours 40 minutes).  13,048 miles.  We departed Salt Lake City on Saturday January 11th and arrived in Perth on Monday January 13th. We crossed the international date line so we never did see January 12th.  We were exhausted. Elder and Sister Hadfield picked us up at the airport and we headed straight to a Senior couple’s brunch then headed to the mission office (which is on the beautiful temple grounds) to do some paperwork. We then took our driving test (they drive on the wrong side of the road) which we passed without crashing. It’s pretty weird. The steering wheel is on the opposite side of the dashboard and the blinker and windshield wiper ...