WE'RE HERE

We landed in New Caledonia just as the sun was setting on Sunday, March 20, 2016.  The clouds were very pink as we descended through them.  The sky was brilliantly colored as we walked into the airport.  What a great welcome to the country we will be living in for the next 18 months.  

Missionaries picked us up.  Before we went to the hotel we visited the Magenta Bureau--our office. Grangers worked hard to get the office ready for us and were anxious to show it to us.  They had locked my side of the office so that the missionaries couldn't go in there so that it would be perfect when we got there.  It was after dark when we checked into the hotel where we have been living until we find and move into our apartment.  

This is what we saw when we stepped out on our terrace the next morning.

These are our neighbors.

While the Grangers and Elder Stevens were with us here we met with the Gurreras--a live at home full-time couple who have been doing everything here that needed to be done. President Granger gave us some assignments to help them.  President Granger took us and the office elders to dinner.

The next day we had a meeting and met  most of the full-time missionaries who are serving in New Caledonia. 

After that Elder Glade received more training and President Granger bought a few more things for the office to help get it in operating condition. We said good night and goodbye to the Grangers and Elder Stevens. They left early the next morning and we were on our own--feeling a little like we'd just been dropped off at camp or school.