Christmas Decoration !!!

In our dear little town of Kekaha almost everyone has lights and blow up Christmas Decor in their yards. Notice the beautiful sky and the palm trees in the background. Somehow with all our rushing around to get here, then trying to find a place to live, having 80 degree weather with the beach down the street we just can't seem to believe Christmas is about 10 days away.

Living Quarters!!!

I guess I should tell you that we are living in a borrowed house. There are 5 bar stools and an extra small regular bed that we sleep on. The former bishop owned the house and moved to main land for his company. They are trying to sell it and we can stay here as long as it is vacant. The Relief Society President, Sister Karratti kindly brought us towels, plates, forks, some utensils, bowls and a frying pan. It is so interesting what you take for granted when you have it at home and then move somewhere without thought of what you might need. We run to Lihue everyday for something else we need. It is a 26 mile trip on a 2 lane road. It takes about 40 minutes. Oh, the reason we are here in this house is I refused to live in the missionary pad. It is scary, I mean scary and filthy. The missionaries think it is a palace.... Help.

District Meeting

. Well, here is our zone. Here only day and already we have a zone meeting. They used the be the "Elite 8" now we have spoiled it making it 10. They don't know what to call us now. They are a nice group of Elders. Most of them have already been here for 18 to 23 months. We should be seeing all new Elders within the next few months and we will be the "oldies". This is our Christmas picture. It is going on the mission Christmas Card to all the missionaries. We are one of only 3 senior mls missionaries in this mission.

The Airport and President and Sister Dalton

Here we are with President and Sister Dalton. They are wonderful. The flight wasn't too bad and it was nice to have someone there at the airport to greet us and tell us all about where we are going and what we are going to be doing. We went straight to the Mission Home and settled in for the weekend. They fed us and treated us like they had known us forever. It helps that they know our Mandy and the Kershaws. We went to church in their ward and then to a Baptism for a family of 5. After the baptism we went to the First Presidency Christmas Fireside.
President and Sister Dalton took us for a quick tour of downtown Honolulu and then we went home to bed and we will head for Kauai first thing in the morning.

Last Day At The MTC

We had a picture of our group taken on our last day. We are going all over the world; Kenya, Argentina, Netherlands, Florida, and Hawaii. What a great week we had and we made some wonderful friendships !!!

At the MTC

Here we are at the famous MTC map. We knew we needed a picture at this map after recieving a picture of each of our boys pointing to where they were headed for 2 years.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.....

Postman delivering our mission call....but we had to wait ALL day until kids could come to watch us open it!!!



Finally able to open our call.....
Brother and Sister Fairbanks are called to the.....

Hawaii Honolulu Mission!!!!!
And we report to the MTC in 10 days!!!!
And we leave for Hawaii in 17 days!!!