Walkabout (it was really a driveabout)

 Today was the first time we actually use our P-day.  We decided to go on an adventure and see what we could see.  We drove to Dampier which is about 15 minutes from Karratha.  No really much there but it did have some pretty views of water. The one picture that has 3 white piles or hills is salt from the salt mine. 

Really cool Park 

Nice little tide pools

I Love this color!

Hearson's Cove

Salt Mines

 New Year’s Eve and Transfers

 

We had an exciting New Year’s Eve because it was also transfers day.   We drove to Port Hedlund which is a boring 2 ½ hour drive.  We got there in time for a city tour of Port Hedlund which is smaller than Karratha by quite a bit.  It was a fun tour though because the Senior couple that are assigned there do volunteer work for the turtle research and Elder Hurd gets to go to the beach in the late hours of the night or the wee hours of the morning and count how many turtles are laying and then later in the season how many are hatching.  I would love to do this but when I emailed to volunteer they said they didn’t need any more helpers.   These are the pictures from our drive there.  On our Way home on New Years Day the drive was much more exciting because we saw a giant lizard. 

 

Transfers 

 

The way transfers are done on this mission is all missionaries get a video made at the mission office.  The recorded message tells who will be serving where.  We had one elder who had only been here a month so he kept saying he would not be transferred he was safe.  We knew we wouldn’t be transferred so we were safe but the senior companion of the young elders wanted to be transferred.  He had been here 4 months and he said he couldn’t take the heat anymore. 

So as they start telling where everyone will be serving BOTH of the elders serving here were transferred.  It’s called a whitewash when you get 2 new elders.  The first picture is Elder Johnson from Mesa AZ and Elder Bicomong from Tonga who will always have a special place in our hearts because they were “our” first missionaries.   The 2^nd picture is our new elders.  Elder Ah Soon from Brisbane and Elder Meryhew from Layton.  We are excited to work with them.