Crew Members, New Roommates, and Dyea

We survived the first days of the cruisers! Regardless that they were only 500 people, we still survived. When people are cruising, they know what they want, when they want it. Sometimes it can be super hard to keep a smile on your face while providing great customer service. A lot of the crew members are straight off the boat (hahaha) Filipino, which makes it so you can hardly understand them and most of them smell so bad of cigarette smoke. If you need something to pray for, please pray that we can have the gift of tongues so we can understand them!

Our next roommates moved in making a total of 7 out of 11 here at the good ole Kone House! It is becoming a party. Right now we are watching Star Wars (May the 4th be with You, duh) and before that we had our Sunday Roommate Prayer. Everyone is so chill and cool! So now we will do roommate spotlight.

Steph making brussel sprouts

On Thursday, the lovely Stephanie arrived. It was kind of a funny story, Daniel, Ryan, and Aisha were sitting in the living room Thursday evening when they heard the front door open and someone just walk in. At first it was pretty scary but then this cute girl popped her head up and said , "Hi! I'm Stephanie. I'm suppose to be in the room downstairs but its full of boxes." She is working at Duffs and is a total outside junkie. She does seasonal work where in the winter she works at Park City in a Ski Shop. She also does cool things like snowboarding and split-boarding. She also loves to cook brussel sprouts and hers taste pretty dang good. 

Alex all geared up. 

Next we have Alex! He is a BRAIN! He is so tech savy. You could even call him a Skagway native, he has been coming up here for the past 10 years and his Aunt and Uncle are Karla and Duff. He served his mission in Bakersfield, California Mission. He is also the Ward Mission Leader and is very excited about missionary work! He is also willing to serve in whatever way he can. He is a really great guy! 

Ashlee and Aisha at the Kone

Finally, we have Ashlee! She is such a sweet girl and so fun! She will be the one that keeps us all together and makes sure we have plenty of roommate bonding! She is from Logan and just finished her first semester at Utah State. She will be working at Radio Shack and it her also her first summer up in Skagway and is super excited to do all kinds of new things. 

Dyea!

This weekend we had Stake Conference which was a neat experience because the members are so spread out we had it all televised from the church and it wasn't just us, but everyone in the surrounding areas had it televised. It was amazing! The members in Alaska are so strong! They talked a lot about loving and hastening the work. Something to take away from stake conference was that it doesn't matter who you are or where you are at in your life. Everyone is worthy of Heavenly Fathers love always. Unfortunately, we had to work this Sunday, even though there wasn't a ship so we didn't have a lot of people, mainly just Canadians coming down from White Horse. Those Canadians are crazy shoppers. One woman Ashley was helping came in for shoes, ended up throwing up in the garbage can and still left the store with four pairs of shoes!! It was a crazy time but Ashley being such a good sales woman kept her composure and rocked those shoe sales!! :)

Roommates!

After Ryan, Ashlee, Sheeba and us went to Dyea. It is about 13 miles and it was so beautiful! We played Frisbee on the beach for awhile, walked around the tidal flat lands,  and climbed rocks. It was great roommate bonding time!

 One roommate spotlight we need to do is about Sheeba! She is 6 months old and is ALL puppy. We love her here at the Kone House! She is always full of cuddles and ready to play. She especially loves Ryan, basically, if she was human they would make the perfect couple! She loves chasing birds around and trying to sneak into the garbage to eat whatever she can find! She is so fun and we are lucky to have her around!

Love From Alaska.