Outside Chapel at Uatafo--end of the road in Samoa 

 "Inside" the "outside" chapel

 The Sunday School classroom

 Their daughter is cleaning the fish for our dinner

 A wood carver making plates to sell at the open market

 Our host digging for "muscles" I think along the ocean shore

 This Samoan is weaving a "fine" mat to sell.  It will takes her at least two months and it will sell for about $500 tala or $250 U.S.

 Our hosts served us lunch: #2 size pig including head and feet, tara, fish, and I don't know how to spell the other delicacies...they shared their "all" with us

 This is where we were--at the end of the earth

I couldn't resist a picture of this naked little "pigherder"  He wasn't about to let those pigs in the kitchen!

Nov 2012American Samoa

This is the airport we left from.  Yes, that is the luggage area and also boarding gate!

We are boarding a 16 seater plane.  They weigh every passenger and their luggage--only 6 pieces of luggage made the flight....if that gives you an idea of the passenger list...  

This is a World War II Japanese ship still on the coast line

This fishing boat is still used for fishing....hope they have an extra bail bucket





October 2012

 Man fishing in Apia Harbor

 Dense foliage everywhere we look

 Samoans make tapa cloth from tree bark then hand painting it

 Samoans hand print much of their fabric

 Samoans still hand carve outriggers for fishing and sailing

 Neighborhood children

 Anyone want some taro--you can buy it along the sidewalks

 Visiting the "Orator" hotel and restaurant

 Samoans love to dress up and dance

 Beautiful clouds and our "condo" in the background

L.R. playing "1 potatoe" in the backyard with the neighborhood

30 Sept 2012

 

 It's white Sunday on October 14.  Evidentally its a holiday for the children; many stores have all white clothes in the windows.  This is the same window that I put on the blog a few months ago.

 Photos from our walk this morning.  A fale with grave in front.  This must be a village fale not a private family fale

September 2012

 Inserting hot rocks to cook the insides of "dinner"

 Here's dinner at Sauniatu

 Senior Couples eating in a fale at Sauniatu

 Entertainers at our feast at Sauniatu

 Swimming hole at Sauniatu

 45 students to the top of Mt. Vaea.  Nola had to go get lunch for everyone so she couldn't make the hike

 Posing with students after our Institute hike up Mt. Vaea

 Children all dressed in white for their Sacrament program

 Dinner for the children after their Sacrament program

 Different items made out of coconut trees

 Two more Institute students

Student I helped fill out mission papers

August 15, 2012

 Bathing Beauties before swimming at the Trenches

 Samoan "soda pop" delivery

 The Trenches swimming pool connected to the ocean--note the ladder to get in--it is like the Homestead crater

 Samoan weed pullers

 

 

Gr. G. Church fan club

August 2012

 Samoan neighbors watching how to plant a garden

 Samoan Supermarket

 Sr. Couples in a swimming place called "The Trenches."  It's like the Homestead crater; you enter by going down 30-40 stairs.  There is also a passage way where you can enter out into the ocean.

 Sr. missionaries around a typical "fale" at resort called the Trenches

 LRG's garden after 6 weeks

 Miss Samoa contestants

 Carving at Robert Louis Stephenson grounds

 At the Robert Louis Stephenson Memorial Grounds

 LRG and Institute students

 Our students after a devotional speaker

 Our students at the Samoan Temple

Samoans love to wear white to "other" churches