Here are some picture of our good friends, the Bachelors- Margaret and Danny who are now studying with the young Elders. The first picture is eating at our Flat and the second is taken on a walk with Margaret near their home on the Queen's Birthday holiday. We have eaten with them 2 times and enjoyed many good times together.
We enjoyed taking a day off, from the Archives for the 2nd time and attending a Zone Conference in a small town about 2 hours away called Gore. The countryside is beautiful and the meeting always inspirational.
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| We have really enjoyed the Elder in the middle of the picture- Toomalati . He is from American Samoa and will be going home in 2 weeks. Next Fall he will be playing basketball for Washington State in Tacoma, WA. |
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| Bad picture but had to show you some more sheep. |
We often have the Elders and Sister for dinner and usually with an investigator.
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Most of the time our Sisters do not drive. They ride bikes, take the bus or walk and on occasion ask the Dickey's for a ride.
In May the senior couple from Invercargill (about 3 hours away on the southern tip of the island) spent the night with us and after church on Sunday they had dinner here and brought a set of Elders with them. Elder Harding served here as a young missionary many years ago.
New Zealand celebrates the Queens birthday in June so we had a day off from the Archives. To celebrate we inspected 4 missionary flats and then went for a walk on St Clair Beach.
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Looking down on the beach from above. Notice the houses of Dunedin, built on the hills. |
Another Saturday we drove to the outskirts of the city for this view of Dunedin.
There are always sheep to be seen and green pastures even though it is winter here.
Last week we were ask to give a presentation at the Genealogical Society of Dunedin (NZSG). Their meetings are at the public library and this month there were about 40 people in attendance.
We used a power point presentation showing a clip from our DC video, slides about Family Search and then some of our Probate records. It went very well and in 2 months we will do the same thing for another chapter. Some of the Probate records from NZ are now online and someone told us the next day that they had found a record they were searching for and really enjoyed seeing it online.
Needless to say, we are very happy to be here and to leave footprints for many years to come.
The outgoing chairman of our NZSG chapter, a retired Presbyterian minister.
