One weekend during the Fall semester we host a "Spiritual Emphasis" Weekend. We try to get off campus and go camping for a couple days. There are not many places on island to go camping so this is a tricky thing. However this year, with Hollie and Aaron still here, we were able to go camping on Andersen Airforce Base. Each year has a theme and the theme this year was "Prayer". Sometimes we have one speaker but this year we had 3. Hedrick Kual, a graduate and a member of our master's program, spoke on why we pray and what keeps us from praying when we should. Ned Farnsworth spoke about how to pray and what to pray for. Hollie Schaub ended our teaching on the topic of spiritual warfare. Overall, except for the lack of rice (Most Micronesians don't go a single meal without rice - even breakfast), I believe everyone had a great time.
Leah and Joyce hanging out during breakfast.
The beautiful view from our campsite.
Lydia and Stella heading back from the very nice and clean restrooms. (A huge improvement over the last year.)
We also had some visitors during our weekend. These are baby wild boars. They were feeding them. Then two of our students actually caught one with their bare hands. Pretty impressive. However, they were asked to let him go since apparently hunting is only allowed on Monday thru Thursday.
One weekend during the Fall semester we host a "Spiritual Emphasis" Weekend. We try to get off campus and go camping for a couple days. There are not many places on island to go camping so this is a tricky thing. However this year, with Hollie and Aaron still here, we were able to go camping on Andersen Airforce Base. Each year has a theme and the theme this year was "Prayer". Sometimes we have one speaker but this year we had 3. Hedrick Kual, a graduate and a member of our master's program, spoke on why we pray and what keeps us from praying when we should. Ned Farnsworth spoke about how to pray and what to pray for. Hollie Schaub ended our teaching on the topic of spiritual warfare. Overall, except for the lack of rice (Most Micronesians don't go a single meal without rice - even breakfast), I believe everyone had a great time.
Leah and Joyce hanging out during breakfast.
The beautiful view from our campsite.
Lydia and Stella heading back from the very nice and clean restrooms. (A huge improvement over the last year.)
We also had some visitors during our weekend. These are baby wild boars. They were feeding them. Then two of our students actually caught one with their bare hands. Pretty impressive. However, they were asked to let him go since apparently hunting is only allowed on Monday thru Thursday. 
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