Amazing views from Makapu'u Point
This was a trip down to the southwest tip of Oahu to an area called Barber's Point (Kalaeloa). The J.W. Marriot resort down there has an area with live sharks (hammer head), manta/sting rays, star fish , and tons of other beautiful tropical fish.
So this is a trivial post to say the least but kinda funny that we've driven 7 different cars in the last couple months. These are the cars we've had come and go...
We sold the VW golf before we left, what a great car (we miss it).
Jen's old Nissan Pathfinder was given to our brother and sister (Jes and Ash), believe it or not, with over 215,000 miles, it's still running strong. [We don't got no pics of it.]
Our first rental car was a silver Chevy Malibu hatchback. The antenna was missing and didn't pic up any radio stations, plus the key-less entry didn't even work... so the rental company gave us an old lady car. It was a black Oldsmobile Intrigue. This car was fine but long story short of many details, I urge you (whoever you are) never, NEVER use Alamo if you need a rental car!
The Subaru Forester car was what we bought a week after we first got here. It no longer "exists" b/c Jen totaled it. Don't worry she's fine but the car isn't.
Next our insurance set us up with a white Mitsuibishi Galant. Good on gas and turned back in when Jen left to go back to the mainland.
The white Nissan Frontier is our new truck, it's a great ride (even has a subwolfer). Rush should have a great time riding around in it too when he gets here. What a nightmare of buying it though, that's also a long story with many details.
I hope we haven't "driven" you crazy reading about all these cars!
Alright so it's been about 5 months since we posted a new blog. I'll be sure to put up more now that we are "settled" and have internet but we are sending our computer in to get fixed so it might be a while til the next one. So with that said we'll catch you up on some of the things that went down during the last few months. I'm sure all you want to see is pics, without further a due...
These pics are from our trip to Pearl Harbor. We visited the USS Arizona which has laid to rest just below the surface since Dec. 7, 1941. It still drips/releases oil to this day (that's what I'm pointing to). This is also the tomb of over 900 sailors. Kim and Melissa blessed us with their presence while on vacation from Asheville.
P.S. The Pearl Harbor Memorial is funded on a volunteer basis and you may donate money at the website to help in preserving our historical site: www.pearlharbormemorial.com
We're sorry that it has been a ridiuculously long time since we have been able to post...we are still alive and doing great. Unfortunately, we have been living in remote areas which makes internet access difficult. To give you an update, we are doing great, our whole team is finally together (for those who didn't know, half of our team was stuck in Indonesia for over a week and half of us were here in Thailand.) Everyone is doing well except for Sammy (from Honduras) please pray for him. He is in the hospital right now with Dengue Fever. We're hoping with some good, air-conditioned rest and IV fluids he'll be doing much better in a day or two. Everything else is going fine. We are living on the Thailand / Cambodia border in eastern Thailand. It's beautiful here, the people are very kind, the food is delicious, the heat is sweltering and even though this country is a Buddhist fortress, we have had some great opportunities to serve and share our friendship and faith with these people... Jason and I have also cherished this time deeply to draw closer to each other and to stand up for our beliefs and passion for others. We've learned so much about being a team...Jason and I.
We'll try to post pictures and much more when we can and also get in touch with personal emails...for now just know we love and miss you all! ~ Jen and Jason
Our time in the Philippines was wonderful. The people of this country were so warm and open. We were surprised by many things, especially the changing of our schedule but the wonderful thing was that we were able to serve with long-term missionaries and ministries. It's always so much better to come along side an existing mission so that continued work and help will be given long after our time. First of all we apologize for not being able to post more often...internet is very limited and pricey here...and incredibly slow! We'll try to put another post up in a couple of days showing more of the people we worked with in the Philippines and telling more of our time. Thank you so much for the tremendous amounts of prayer and support. We have no doubt all of this has helped us immensely along the journey! Before we have to sign out...in the Philippines we were able to serve in many churches by preaching, leading worship, giving testimonies etc., we also lived and served in a city slum of Davao City and our group planned and ran a four day youth camp on an island off of the coast of Davao. We can't wait to share more of our time and heart of our ministry...more to come about the Philippines! (Just so you know, we are living in Indonesia right now. It is such an incredible ministry and very different because we are living in Muslim houses and in a Muslim community...please pray for our time and safety. We love and miss you all!) ~ Jen and Jason
