Our P-Day Trip To Limbe

The Elders had been asking us for weeks to take them to a resort town 11/2 hours away called Limbe.  One of them had been there several months ago and said how wonderful it was.  We set a date and met at the church at 7:00 a.m. to get on the road.  One of the investigators that we thought was going to help drive us didn’t show up.  The Elders went to his house and he said that he couldn’t go and we would just have to pile into our little truck.


We ended up renting this van to haul the Elders.
This family, the Dims, from from one of the branches has adopted us.  They were so excited to show us around Limbe and borrowed a car from a friend to go with us.  Half way there their car died and coasted to the side of the road.  We figured out that the timing belt had broken, so we pushed it a little more off the road and went on in our other 2 cars.  It turned out that when the mechanic got into it, the piston had hit the valve and broke the cam shaft in three pieces.  (That’s Mechanic talk)  It cost him a lot to get it fixed.  Romeo spent the whole day going back to tow it and missed out on Limbe that he was so excited to show us.

 
One of the first places we went was to a botanical garden.  This stream ran down the side of it.  It was very lush and beautiful with vines hanging down and a lot of beautiful trees.

From the Botanical Gardens we got our first look at the ocean.  It was beautiful.
We also visited a primate sanctuary where the bring in injured animals to rehabilitate them.  Once they are better, they release them back into the wild.



This mother has a little baby asleep on her chest.  You have to look closely to see the baby.
Here we are at the ocean.  We had heard tales of the black sand beach, but the day we were there it was high tide and the beach was covered.  There were thousands of round black rocks all along the shore line.  It sounded neat because as the waves came in and receded, you could hear the rocks rolling across each other. It is volcanic rocks that are now smooth.  That is where the black sand beaches come from.
These are the Dim family girls.  The mom, Iren and the daughters Diabel, Kati, and Flora.

These are our missionaries, Elders Prince, Porter, Rambelosom, Hoiland, and LaFleur.  Elder Lavering, Rambelosom, Schmid, and Porter are below.