Across the distant waters...

You would love the island...
but I wish there was a LDS church.
This is what we did last Sunday to get to one:

1.) Wake up at 5:00am
2.) Leave by 6:00am
3.) Bike into town - barely make the boat by 6:30am
4.) Two hour boat ride to the mainland (and 30 dollars).
5.) Be picked up by the adorable senior missionaries.
6.) Drive a while to the church building.
7.) Three hours of church - sacrament!!!! (I hate not being able to get that. I use the word hate - because that is what it is.)
8.) Then drive for an hour dropping people off.
9.) Make it back to the docks by 2:30pm
10.) Two hour boat ride back to the island.
11.) Bike Home.
12.) Want to go to bed around 6:00pm.

So because of the long and exhausting voyage - Steph and I are on own today for church. I think she is taking it better than I am. Be grateful you have somewhere to go, if you do. Starting in June we will have a two hour block meeting and have the sacrement and everything... so I will be looking forward to that.

In other news:
The Island is turning out to be wonderful! Everything is an adjustment and I would be lying if I said none of it is hard - but there is such beauty and such opportunity for growth here.
Yesterday I met some people from Ireland and had the time of my life talking to them. I love the different kinds of people I am meeting here. All wonderful in their own ways. We will be posting pictures soon I hope.