Saturday Joyce and I went down to Ypao park to celebrate the 14th Palau Independence Day. Pretty much the entire Palauan community on Guam was there and many of the candidates, or their representatives, for Palau president and legislature were there campaigning. Each of the Palau states sets up a booth overflowing with Palauan food and barbeque, there is Palauan music and dance and many other activities. We enjoyed getting to see many of our Palauan friends we have not seen in a while. The picture here with Joyce is of Asteria Dennis. Asteria used to attend Yigo Baptist when we were ministering there. We had not seen her in a while (how is it on an island this small you can go so long without seeing someone?) and it we were happy to hear that she and her family are doing well.
We mostly hung around at the celebration with John Aitaro and his wife Danette. John has been a student at PIBC for the last few years and works full time at one of the local hotels. They are also active in ministry leadership at the Guam Palauan Evangelical Church. John made sure that Joyce and I had plenty of chicken, pork, ribs, fish, shrimp etc. (John and I were both OK with the full food plates as we had scrimmaged with the PIBC basketball team the day before) The only disappointment was that we did not get there early enough before the taro leaf soup was gone. We brought home so much food we are still eating off of the leftovers. We also enjoyed getting to meet some other members of John's extended family and seeing other Palauan friends we had not seen in some time.
It was a perfect day for it as the rain held off for most of the day and the clouds kept things nice and cool.
Saturday Joyce and I went down to Ypao park to celebrate the 14th Palau Independence Day. Pretty much the entire Palauan community on Guam was there and many of the candidates, or their representatives, for Palau president and legislature were there campaigning. Each of the Palau states sets up a booth overflowing with Palauan food and barbeque, there is Palauan music and dance and many other activities. We enjoyed getting to see many of our Palauan friends we have not seen in a while. The picture here with Joyce is of Asteria Dennis. Asteria used to attend Yigo Baptist when we were ministering there. We had not seen her in a while (how is it on an island this small you can go so long without seeing someone?) and it we were happy to hear that she and her family are doing well.
We mostly hung around at the celebration with John Aitaro and his wife Danette. John has been a student at PIBC for the last few years and works full time at one of the local hotels. They are also active in ministry leadership at the Guam Palauan Evangelical Church. John made sure that Joyce and I had plenty of chicken, pork, ribs, fish, shrimp etc. (John and I were both OK with the full food plates as we had scrimmaged with the PIBC basketball team the day before) The only disappointment was that we did not get there early enough before the taro leaf soup was gone. We brought home so much food we are still eating off of the leftovers. We also enjoyed getting to meet some other members of John's extended family and seeing other Palauan friends we had not seen in some time. 
It was a perfect day for it as the rain held off for most of the day and the clouds kept things nice and cool.
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Awe! This is the first time I saw this. My good friend Asteria. Of course we miss you,Dave and Joyce!
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