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I'm from Seattle Washington, and in a couple of years I will be travelling to Tokelau. I was wondering if Tokelau is in your mission boundaries, and if so, if you know if there are ANY LDS members living there, and if they hold Church on Sundays. I want to be able to go to Church while I'm there! If so, please tell me what city they attend Church in. Thanks!
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Elder Hicks saw Elder Valikoula at a Snow College football game in October 2004, but didn't get his phone number or address. Does anyone know how to get a hold of him in UTah?
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Lehlie Maing Ko! This is Sis. Manoa, I am currently serving on Pohnpei. We are looking for some missionaries that served here in the past: Brian MacMillan and any sisters that served in the Sokehs area. There are some people you met with that have been baptized since and want to say hello and thanks. Drop me a line.
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i am posting this message to let you all know who served in the marshall islands, that we, the lds marshallese members will have our christmas celebration on the 25th of this month. for the time and place i will post them later. please bring your family/friends and come enjoy the way of marshallese christmas style. hope to see you all there. fell free to contact me either by phone/email
home (801) 840-0536
Cell (801) 403-5324
garyz12gx@hotmail.com
namdrik10@yahoo.com
we really love to see you and your family/friends.
elon mona(rice, bao) island style
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I got a call from Roman Mark from Majuro. She is living in Hawaii and needs someone to help one of her friends who is flying into Los Angeles tomorrow Nov 30th. If you can help her give her a call at 808-232-2114 or 808-382-7562. I hope all are doing well. Take care and please get to her if you can help. I know it is short notice but if you can...
Janil Yearsley
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Gary,
Kwo tanaad le! Hey, bud give me a call at (480) 244-7267, or write me at Paul Petersen, P.O. Box 970, Mesa, AZ 85211.
Ejelok ao kubaak wot, akwe! Anyone who has the time, give me a call. I might even give out free legal advice (all offers come without a guarantee of future results).
Bwiro
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MY WIFE AND I SERVED ON POHNPEI 1994,95. WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW JOHN & ARMI WHO LIVE IN SAPWALAP ARE DOING, & HOW IS THE BRANCH THERE & IN MAND DOING.
WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW HOW FRANK & BETSY DARRA IN KOLONIA ARE, IF THEY ARE STILL ON THE ISLAND. WE LOVE THE PEOPLE OF POHNPEI AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT SOME OF THE PEOPLE THERE.
THANKS,
KEN ROBINSON
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This is a forwarded email. From what I understand things are looking up for Yap.
Subject: Re: Typhoon Sudal
Date sent: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:05:53 +1000
Hi Reed,
On April 9, Yap was hit by Typhoon Sudal. The storm started building Thursday night and intensified by Friday morning, finally letting up by Friday night. The storm came from the southeast and as it passed over Yap, then slowed down and veered towards the northwest, so it hung over us for quite a while. We are guessing winds were gusting to about 140-150 mph. In a nutshell, Yap is devastated. 80% of the homes are destroyed or are missing roofs. For most of the island there is no water, no electricity, and no phones. There were a few injuries and I think one death, but seeing the total demolition of Colonia and the rest of the island it's amazing that more people weren't killed or hurt seriously.
Teri, Ryan and I are fine. We rode out the storm in our house. Our house is fine, except for where our neighbor's house came crashing through our bedroom and living room windows. But we are among the very few lucky ones. We still have a house. Beyond The Reef is fine. Our boats were moved before the storm to a secure location and rode out the high waves and winds in the protected mangrove forests. God bless the mangroves. Beyond The Reef is located in a very solid cement building that suffered no damage, except for minor flooding. Even our dock was still in place (a true miracle because the channel markers lining the main harbor entrance up to almost a mile away are lying in the main road in Colonia. Teri's office, at the commercial port, is still there, althought the rest of the warehouse isn't. She had damage to her office but nothing that can't be repaired. At the same company, the commercial gas plant where we used to get our scuba tanks refilled (and the only source of oxygen, acetylene and propane) no longer exists.
Fisheries had three out of its four boats sink. These are large boats that go for weeks at a time fishing in the atolls of Yap. One of the sunken vessels is now in front of our shop. There is a sheen of fuel over the surface of the lagoon from these sunken vessels. Boats are scattered everywhere, some only half a boat. Most personal boats are either destroyed ar severely damaged. All of the hotels suffered major damage, although most are capable of handling some guests at this time. The high water levels did most of the damage. One 25 ft. boat went through the ground floor restaurant at one of the hotels. The Pathways Hotel is still standing but all of the cottages lost their roofs.
As I type this I just got a piece of glass in my finger from one of our exploded windows (I guess I need to sweep some more). When we returned home yesterday, we rejoiced at having electricity, and phone. Also, Beyond The Reef's phones were operational at the end of the day, although we had to do the rewiring ourselves. The power company is desperately trying to get power restored to the hospital, which was also badly damaged. Last night they were working (round the clock) in that effort. All of the stores, if still standing and open, are fast running out of supplies.
Basically, it's a mess, and will be for the next several months. The guardrails along the main road are grotesquely twisted and bent from the high water. Street lights and concrete utility poles litter the lagoon. Everywhere is the smell of dead fish. The outer-island community across the water from our shop is completely gone. Hundreds of people lived there. One of our guides and his wife, that used to stay in that community, are now living in our shop. So many homeless people now.
The U.S. Coast Guard flew in the other day, I believe bringing supplies and FEMA (disaster relief) employees.
On a brighter note, Beyond The Reef is operational, and we had divers out yesterday and today. We have our small air compressor so we are able to fill scuba tanks--slowly. Our dock, now slowly sinking, is somewhat still afloat and our boats are okay as I mentioned earlier.
I have never seen first hand such devastation. But, the people of Yap are resilient and look out for each other. Everyone is helping each other, rebuilding what was lost, and bonding in a way that brings tears to my eyes. So many people have lost everything they had, but still have a smile on their face and after a brief rest from the intense heat and lack of shade (most of the trees are down), stand back up and get back to work to rebuild the next house.
Dave
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According to the news 90% of the buildings have had some damage done to them. There is a lot of relief efforts going on including several starting on Guam.
I was informed of a University in South Carolina who might start collecting money donations to send over there. I will post more information as I get it.
As of yet there have been no deaths announced but the hospital has lost it's roof and water has leaked into the rooms so Yap has been asking for medical supplies. Phone service is available to some of the government buildings but not to the entire island.
Marilynn
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I heard that there was a hurricane (typhoon) that hit Yap this past week. I heard on the news that 98% of all buildings were destroyed. Any news?
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just few can be found at:
http://crane.uvsc.edu/~markcrane/reunion_2004/reunion_2004.html
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Humanitarian effort of the Church in Pohnpei...
http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20040211/localnews/388482.html
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I served in Chuuk for the greater part of my mission (93-95). Romanum (can't remember if I am spelling it right) is a small island that I served on near the beginning, before I could really speak Chuukese. It's a unique area. It's 1 mile long, 1/2 mile wide. The population was approximately 500 folks. It has one of the stronger members of the church there, named Samurai (sp?) Walters. His clan formed one of the 2 strongest branches outside of the main island of Moen/Weno.
In fact, his son and nephew were both missionaries in Micronesia back at the time I was there.
One humorous anecdote--while I was on that island, I was standing underneath a coconut tree....a coconut fell, struck me in the head, and gashed the crown of my head pretty good. Blood everywhere. Had to take boat in to the main island to get stitched up. I may in fact still be remembered on that island solely because of that incident.
On a broader note, you mentioned the no electricity/no plumbing. When I was in Chuuk, there were over 20 missionaries assigned there. Most of them were assigned on these "outer" islands, with no electricity or running water. We communicated on CB radios, and used motor boats for our zone and district meetings. When I returned to visit Chuuk in 1999, all missionaries had been removed from the outer islands, which frankly, made for a quite different experience.
I am pleased to hear that we now have missionaries on Romanom again. If you son's experience is anything like mine, he will have the time of his life. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. I would love to hear more specific information from your son about how things are going out there.
Kene nom non kiname (bye=you will stay in peace),
Arthur
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My son was just transferred to an outer island of Chuuk called Romanum. The only info I can gather is that there is no power or water. Can anyone offer more information?
Thank You,
Suzanne
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Please let me know if you get information on Elder Lipai. I would be interested in sending him email and a care package as well.
Rachel
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My husband and I just moved to a new ward and, at first, Bernard Lipai's name was on the ward roster. It is not there anymore. The only info we can get from the ward is that he is or was with a group currently deployed in Iraq. We'd love to send him at least an email if not a care package. Does anyone have any contact info?
Thanks, Rebecca Sanchez Devenport
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by chance, anyone here into sailing? I have gone sailing a number of times with a friend of mine on a 25-footer here on a large lake near Dallas, TX. My eventual goal is to sail out to Micronesia. Anyone out there with similar aspirations?
Arthur (Westover)
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Hafa adi.
Im currently looking for an address or Phone #
for an (Elder) John Allen Raymundo from the Phillipines,
Thanks Ya'll
Jared Andersen
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Hafa Adai, all,
I am trying to locate several missionaries who served at the time I was serving. Any info on the following would be greatly appreciated:
Rob Humble
Scott Worthington
David Broadbent
David Johnson
Brent Hales
Keith Price
Jerry Mason
Bryan Wallace
Loren Alberts
Sione Fifita
Thanks.
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Hey everyone!
Does anyone out there know how to contact Grant Johnson? He was on Guam in 1992-93 with his friend Aaron. They had started a business, but while there they both joined the church. I am trying to get in contact with him. If anyone knows where he is or how to contact him, can you please let me know?
Thank you!
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Hey when I served in the Marshall Islands (1985-1987) we had eight elders, two sisters and a couple on majuro. Three branches only: Rita, Laura, Long Island. By the time I came home the Delap branch had been formed and construction of the Long Island chapel was underway. My companion (elder crane) and I opened Mili (July 1987). We were the first elders to serve off of majuro (as well as Cook and Monaset(Arno)). Can someone give me an update... I don't think there are missionaries on Mili anymore (pity). ***DOES ANYONE KNOW TIMMY KEJU*** He's Marshallese, but was living on Guam in 1987. Bar Yokwe
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Hey, I miss Guam...... I wish I was there again, My dad was the Branch President in Guam before we moved here to California, My grandma is buried in Guam.....so if anybody remembes us give us a call at (760) 924-8977. Maybe My mom could cook you guys some tongan food.
Vika
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If anyone knows how to get a hold of Elder Sefesi Toki, I would love to contact him.
Thanks, E. Telford
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Aloha fellow Alumini. I look at the pictures and at the message board and I realize that there is something wrong with this website. Hey...doesn't anyone here know anything about my beloved Yap? I read messages on Kosrae. What with Kosrae. When I served my mission back in the days..a little over 15 years, Yap was the bomb island! Is it Kosrae now? or you Kosrae RM just happen to flood this website. Its all good. I am just remembering the good old days in good old Yap. Did anyone here serve in Yap? or know of anyone that served there? or maybe they close down Yap for good now (ha,ha).
Aloha
Sister Brown (Malu)
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I hear you Gali. I was looking at your profile and couldn't help but notice that you served in the South of Guam. Did you serve in Malojloj, Umatac, Talafojfoj, or Inarahajn? Those areas were my first areas as a greenie than I moved to town and ended up in Yap (most of my mission) & Pohnpei. I missed the fiesta (not the budweizer). I am often wondering how are those people I used to teach and visit are doing. If you happen to serve in Malojloj. Do you know the Meno family or the Toetu'u family? I feel homesick for Guam when I think about the roads we use to pass daily on our way to visit an investigator.
Aloha for now
Elizabeth Brown (Malu)
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Hello there, I was then Elder Aban who happen to served in Micronesia Guam Mission sometime 1997-1999. I'm wondering if I could hook up with the missionaries assigned in Yigo right now. I need to know the updates of Bro. Mel Ramos and family as well as Usitai Vaiau and family. If anyone of you can help me in this appeal I would surely appreciate them. Do you come accross also of meeting the famous Billy Aquino of Chalan Tun Luis? He's partly paralytic but indeed a great guy, he's the best bud of Guam North missionaries during our time since we were leasing their apartment before. Please e-mail me. What's up also with the Nicerio family, especially Freddie a.k.a. "d' pimp"?
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Hi there, I hope some of you guys can still remember me, the real born and raised guam north boy. Perhaps no one was able to beat my record. I'm too anxious of hearing several success stories and hello's to my comps and several missionary friends. You guys can email me or contact me in this numbers (6332)340-0426 or 63916-733-6143. I missed Yigo it's the bomb. I'm so glad I had the chance of browsing this site, I need to hear from this several fellows; Gardiner, Castillo, Ioanis, Aiono, Lautaimi, Van Allen, Eves, Hardy, Neeley, Cook, Naumu, Price, Payne, Mizutani, Chapman, Skeem, Bearchief, Robertson, Gee and the Typhoon "Paka" boys, and several more others. Hello to Pres. Lopez and family, to the great people of Yigo, Dededo, Barrigada and Talisay branches. I love you all!!!!
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Hey, eric hammond. I don't know if you're the "elder hammond" I thought. Where in Pohnpei did you serve?
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Kaselehlie kumwail koaroas! I served with Peter Bugulrow (from Yap) in Pohnpei several years ago. I'm trying to find him but am having a very hard time tracking him down. My mail doesn't seem to get to him. Do any of you recently returned missionaries know him and/or where he's at? Please let me know.
Thanks
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Don't any of you just miss the smell of the islands. The sweat and humidity combined with the sweet scent of the flowers, the ocean water, the trees and the food. I think about the rain, the smell, the scent, the people, the love. I think about the music, the buildings we met in (which were simply walls with a tin on top). I think about all those long days praying for the people and for help to teach with power and authority. I loved my first area and will always be ebon aten Foup. Dang, I've been home six years and still love that language, the people, the sights, the feelings. All I need to do is reflect on it and it comes back quickly. I love you all and just wanted to remind whoever reads this that the mission days were THE BEST! I played with the New England Patriots just last year when we won the Super Bowl and I have a huge Super Bowl ring but nothing compares with serving and loving God and his precious children. I've done many things with football and sports, TV etc. and to this day, the mission will always be one of the most memorable and great events in my life. God bless you all.
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