A Unique Public Talk

Yarrabah is an Aboriginal Community about 45 mins from Cairns and there is currently about 3000 people living there including a few of our brothers.  They hold a Sunday meeting every 2 weeks at the local high school and have been getting anywhere between 35 - 60 people in attendance regularly.  A field service group also meets there every weekend and a couple of days during the week.

Jonno was asked to give his first Public Talk there so I thought I would share a couple of pics from that.  I only have a few as I forgot to charge the camera battery beforehand (bad wife!).  He did a great job and his facial expressions show he really got into his talk.  The talk was titled "Appreciating Marvels of God's Creation" and it was handy that the room used for the meetings is the science room, so there were some props available to use.  So Jonno got to give his first public talk in an Aboriginal Community, in the High School Science Lab without a 'coat'.

Service Group at Yarrabah earlier this year

Some of the properties right on the waterfront

What a great place for a service group!

Jonno & Nay xoxo

First Blog - a little weird!

So I (this is Nay btw...) have been inspired by a good friend of mine in San Francisco  to start our own blog (thank Enjoli! Check out her blog http://jonjolifacesandplaces.blogspot.com.au/).  They have shut down their facebook page and are now blogging to people who actually care to read about and see what they've been up to.  So I thought I would try it out too.  Although we still have FB, not sure if we'll ever close it, but we'll see...

With 2012 winding down I thought I would do a year in review for y'all in pics.

January -  The Falla's visited from Shepparton

The Falla Family

February - Quick weekend in Melbourne to surprise Simon & Nella and Antony & Belinda for their combined Anniversary Weekend dinner at the Cuckoo Restaurant in the Dandenongs.

Jonno got picked to Yodel...

The Stevens Family

April - Quick weekend visit to my parents in Weipa (a small remote mining town).  I surprised them by bringing my oldest niece with me.

Taking a break on the beach while out in service with Mum & Kiri

With Kiri - my oldest niece

 May - Caleb (my nephew) got baptized.

June - Wes, Di & Luci (Jonno's parents & sister) visited from Shepparton

Jonno & his sister Luci

Us at the Mamu Rainforest Walk

August - Pioneer School!

Class Photo

Had the privilege of attending Pioneer School with my nephew - Lucas

With Hannah's Mum - Jane at the school

September - District Convention & a couple of extra days in Darwin, NT

At the airport with some of my family - my parents, my sister, her husband & their kids, my brother & his wife and my Aunty

October - Our 11th Wedding Anniversary!! Our anniversary actually fell on our Special Assembly Day, so we took the next day off and went to Green Island with some friends and got to see heaps of sea turtles.

November - Solar Eclipse here in Cairns - best seats in the world!

(this pic courtesy of http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/clouds-part-for-2012-solar-eclipse-in-north-queensland.htm)

(this pic courtesey of  NASA SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory)

The year hasn't quite ended yet, so will keep you posted with what we've been "Up to Lately" in December.

Jonno & Nay
xoxo