Through the week a word kept popping into our world...SET.   First I guess our badges, and our service, and our missions adventures are a constant reminder we have been "set apart" as missionaries to serve the Lord here in New Zealand.  The words on the mission badge open the door for lots of conversation and discussion.  We love to share our own little witness and testimony.   web photo Get "set"... In races (and life) you make preparations, you get ready. Then you get "set", you position yourself so when the time is right you can move forward and "go".  Getting "set"... We have spent much of the last week getting things all "set" and ready to go for our new semester this coming next week.    In doing so we have had more than a few folks just passing by the building stopping in to see what we are about.  We had a great conversation with Carlos (Spanish and Italian background but lives now in NZ) whose daug

While we've been getting ready for the next semester to start up soon, we got to spend some time with our niece Cheryl and husband Kevin Tew and family (Tanner, Kanani, and in-laws Ryan and Melody Tew) here in NZ. One of our adventures together was gathering sea shells.   We were struck by the great difference in SIZE.  These are the same little conch-type shell, both perfectly formed, but vastly different in SIZE. Lunch at the Auckland Domain with the Tew family-Tanner, Kevin, Ryan, Melody, Kanani, Cheryl and us.  Should have taken a before and after picture...our SIZE was bigger after lunch. We could spend hours finding all SIZES of shells...and we did. More SIZES The Tew family...families come in all SIZES too...(or Tew).  We had a chance to stop by one of the Kauri forests, not quite as big as the California Redwoods, but the biggest SIZE native tree here in New Zealand.  Lou found it too big to adequately hug.  Small SIZE Elder Downs next to some Bi