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A Life of Streiff: August 2009
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Friday, August 14, 2009. It had covered about 70 yards and as we drove in we noticed that the water came up to the top of our tires. We were, or should I say I, was a little nervous but Paul just barreled on through. Our battery light came on and the air conditioning stopped but we continued on. Paul jumped in first and turned on the water. I heard a loud gasp as the cold water came down. He turned the t...We at...
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A Life of Streiff: July 2009
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Pioneer day in Samoa. July 22, 2009. The blue star fish is my favorite because it is such a bight blue lying on the white coral and makes such a great contrast. We also saw an eel that was all the way out of its hole just lying on the sand. It had really different designs on its back which kind of resembled a rattle snake or something similar. This is Paul's jumping off the first waterfall.
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A Life of Streiff: January 2010
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Thursday, January 14, 2010. What a fun day for us, Dave and Ede arrived. They took a rather round about way to get here but they arrived safe and sound. We went to one of our favorite restaurants, Coco Bananas for dinner and half way through dinner we noticed that their eyes were slowly closing, so we took pity on them and took them home to bed. We had a great spiritual family home evening on Sunday night with a...
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A Life of Streiff: November 2010
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Wednesday, November 3, 2010. We took off today for Samoa and it was so fun to be back there again. It was warm and fun to be with our good friends again. The native Paul at our new beach. We were very happy with our time in Samoa. The training went really well and we finally feel that Samoa is on top of the game. They are all trained and the council is working great. Monday Oct. 18. We flew to Vava’u early...
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A Life of Streiff: June 2010
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Monday, July 19, 2010. We moved back to New Zealand the end of May and Tricia and Lee Arrived June 1st for a conference that Lee was speaking at. Guess what the name is of these falls? If you look and Lee and Dallin you could get a clue. They are called "Fairy Falls". Lee did a fabulous job on his presentation so now we can just have fun with them. Pat and Dallin at the conference with Paul and McKenna. It was r...
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A Life of Streiff: April 2010
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Wednesday, April 14, 2010. We had an interesting experience the other day; two Catholic priests came to the Service Center wanting to know about the church. The receptionist directed them to us so we invited them into our office. (I guess they think Public Affairs have all the answers….NOT….). Their question was “Why does the Mormon Church have such a presence in Samoa and what motivates us? Our ward went out to...
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A Life of Streiff: September 2009
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Busy as little Bee's. Last couple of weeks in August. It seems that we have been on a dead run the last couple of weeks. We have three projects going and they have required a lot of time and effort on our part. It’s a little intimidating writing letters for another person to present to a Prime Minister but we heard that it all went well! Just a new waterfall we found. Part of the ce...
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A Life of Streiff: November 2009
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Wednesday, November 4, 2009. October for the Streiff's. Well, the Big relief plane from SLC that was due at 9 PM didn't. These are the cute missionaries. There were five crew members and our two media guys on the DC10. What a way to travel for those guys. They could walk around lay out flat on their sleeping bags and one even got to sit in the cock pit while taking off and landing. Garret Batty and Lucas McGraw.
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A Life of Streiff: August 2010
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Thursday, August 19, 2010. We had a meeting today with President Callister to discuss the mayor coming for an Area Office tour. In the middle of the meeting Presid. Ent Callister decided to have a book made up for him all about the church. This is the book we put together. Anthony Wilson, Mayor Brown, President and Sister Callister, Ross. Jodi’s 40th birthday. Tricia and Natalie made a video about h. Er and her ...
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A Life of Streiff: June 2010
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We are serving a public affair mission in the Pacific Area and are now living in New Zealand. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Mother’s day May 9. It was a hard Mother’s day for me because I heard that my mother was in a coma and they didn’t think she would make it through the night. When I was in church I kept reflecting on my mother and how she was such a blessing to me. She always had such a great sense of humor and was so totally dedicated to my father. We set up the recorder and the camera just in case Pre...
