It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas (Well, Sort of)

We attended the lighting ceremony for the BYUH campus and
it was very crowded.

This is the best pic of the tree, but not
the best one of Elder Garff.

This is the Aotearoa Devotional. It includes the
 islands of New Zealand, or the Maori people.
The carvings represent their various tribes
 which go back hundreds of years.
 The students all seemed to know  the tribe they
descended from and they told us about it as
they stood beneath their family carving.

The entire group. The couple in the front are senior
missionaries serving at the PCC. 

The haka can be very intimidating to unwelcome visitors. The
young man on the right of center with his tongue out is Sam
from our Ward. We had to speak on dating at our sacrament
meeting last week. There are many more young women
than men here so it is a challenge.

After the devotional we rode to the North Shore where this
was happening; the Vans World Cup. We were glad we
rode our bikes since the traffic was horrible.

There was quite the crowd on Sunset Beach watching the event.

The waves weren't enormous, but the surfers are judged on their
maneuvers and they have a time restraint to perform. They
have to catch the right wave in the allotted time.

Lots of wave runners and  lifeguard support.