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New Church and Snorkel Adventures

This past weekend Matthew and I finally got up the nerve to venture out into the island and search out a new church.  The church on base is a nice church but not a good fit for us.  When we went to the base church we saw mostly single moms with children and older couples.  We decided that we needed to search out another church to better fit our needs and lifestyle.

While driving around the island we spotted a church named Marianas Christian Fellowship.  This was the first church that we have seen on island that is not Catholic, Baptist or Protestant in denomination.  Thus, we figured we might as well check it out.  This is a big step outside of our comfort zones but we got up enough courage and went through with it.  And God is good!  (All the time!)  He showed us a great small church that is very much like the type of church that we would attend at home.  And there are all different types of people that attend this church.  There were other Navy people, Army people, Air force, Wives, children and even some locals!  We are going to stick with this church for a while and try to plant our roots and make some good Christian friends.  We have been missing our Sunday fill and the community that surrounds a local church.  Hopefully this will be the one for us while we are on the island.

I also wanted to tell you all about the awesome snorkeling that we did yesterday!  It was amazing!  We went to a new beach that I had never been to before.  Matthew had been there so he knew what the expect as far as the ocean floor went.  So what I didn't know what going to happen, and what I had never experienced before, was the ocean floor completely dropping off from about 4-6 feet deep to about 50-75 feet deep.  At first I was scared!  I am afraid of heights and have come to the conclusion that if you are afraid of heights then you will probably be afraid of depths!  It freaked me out at first but it was a really cool sight to see.

We saw some new creatures in those depths and I did my first shallow dive out there!  Matthew dove down and got a pretty sweet looking shell from the coral.  We couldn't keep it though because there was some creature living in it.  After about 45 minutes out in the water it started to rain so we started our way back to shore.  When we got up close to the rocks by the shore and it was only about a foot deep we saw two baby reef sharks!  Yep, that's right we saw two sharks!  One was about a foot and a half long and the other was about two feet long.  It happened so fast that if they had wanted to claim their territory then we wouldn't have been able to get away but luckily they were more scared of us and swam away pretty quickly.

So fun stuff happening on Guam.  Another post is soon to come about our first official hike that we went on today.  It will even include a video that we took!!  So look forward to that one!

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