Our trip to the Kwajalein Atoll to look into a couple of  Humanitarian Projects on the island of Ebeye Ebeye it is about 450 miles northwest of Majuro where we are staying now

 

 

 Sister Johnson took a picture of island and the runway just over the wing

 

 

Most the Kwajalein Atoll is a Military base and the airport is located on the base, to get Ebeye where we needed to go, we walked on the base to lagoon side and the pier where we could catch a ferry boat to the island of Ebeye

 

 

Look how the housing is layed out in neat rows on the base



 

 The island of Ebeye is 78 acres with over 10,000 residents  and is considered to be one of the most densely-populated places in the world.  It is such contrast to Miltary housing on island 5 miles away

 

With the base on 5 miles away they can get 5 tv channels, they don't have much to live in but look at all the tv antennas.  We were told that on this island people sleep in shifts becasue there not enough floor space in the houses for them to lay down at the same time. 

 

Looking up the street as we entered it from our hotel on the lagoon side of the island

 

The street on the ocean side of the island and the cars have to travel the same direction on the one road around the island.

 

Most of the people have to go to this one location on the island to get fresh water and it hauled to their houses most by bikes.

 

Look at the handle bars on this bike.

 

 



 Road Trip to the West Side of the Island

The island get very narrow in spots like this and only room for the road

Neat little store

 What we though the houses would like before we got here

 What most house are built out and look like here on the island

One of the nice's home on the island and Sister Missionaries live in it.

There is some parts of the island give the feeling of being in the tropics.

As we move about on the island, it has it beauty and it dumps, but the people here have made us feel at home and we have come to love them.

Our First Christmas in the Marshall Islands

 

 

Christmas Eve activites:



 

Earring exchange with the Sister Missionaries

 

Tie exchange with the Elder Missionaries I opened the box with the most uglyest ties 

 

 

 Lights on the Captial Building

 

 

Playing Santa with some kids who were hanging out along the streets with their parents

 

 

Here in Majuro they celebrate Christmas with a activity they call the "Biit".

All the wards and other groups come together to do group dances and sing.  It went on for 12 hours Christmas Day

 



 

They march into the hall singing

All the young women from one ward dancing

All those that wanted to from Rita ward. One of the wards we attend.

 

Our suprise Christmas gift

How many banana can two people eat.

 

 

Getting Ready for the Holidays

 

We wanted to fly home for Christmas but our plane is a little under the water 

We tried to book passage on a boat but it got beached

It looks like we have to  travel to Laura Beach to get our white Christmas

 

 

What is Christmas with out some vistors

Maybe we will have to travel to this inlet for Christmas so Celestia can go snorkeling again

 

Come dine with us at our under water tables

 

After watching this kid we are sure all our little grandkids should not be without a machete

Santa dropped a coconut from his sled while doing his test run the other night

It has has taken some time but we have and office now and a car.  Now we can do our work without moving desks, trying to get access to a car to travel to the other side of the island where the businesses are.
We are so blessed and hope we can be effective in help the Marshallese people.

Celestia always love Halloween,  She helped paint the young boy faces, and then helped a couple of Sister Missionaries get some packing material.

A couple of pictures of the youth at a stake dance, some of these youth attend our ward.

We  the missionaries on this atol watch General Conference last Tuesday and Wednesday

Boy can the young missionaries can eat a lot, the senior missionaries prepared a meal each day for them.

 All gathered at the Mission Home

 Lots of crocs and some sandals

We have been requested to post more pictures of the islands 

So here are some

 The Ocean the reef and n the lagoon

 The highest point the bridge that connects the two larges Islands

 Heading west to the bridge

Heading east of the bridge