Mike and Dot Hilbourne are on the deck of their cottage overlooking the bay on Weiheke Island. They have a beautiful view every way they turn. The picture was taken March 14, 2007. 

Mike and Dot Hilbourne are standing behind their cottage on Weiheke Island. As I mentioned before, this is a cottage that Mike built. He is a jointer by profession. This picture was taken the morning of March 14, 2007. 

Mike is trying to call Dot from down in the bush to let her know where to meet us. 

Mike took Alan me for a walk through the bush. I was holding Alan's walking stick while he took the picture. In the background, it is possible to see part of their beautiful cottage. Mike is a jointer and so he built the home. This picture was taken the morning of March 14, 2007. 

Mike Hilbourne picked us up at the airport where we returned the rental car. Later in the day, he and Dot took us on a ferry to their home on Weihike Island. This is a picture of Mike and my nephew, Alan. 

We took the time on our way to Aukland, New Zealand to stop in Hamilton and see the beautiful temple. Sharon was taking the picture. The sister with us was out for a morning walk with a friend. It was raining a little but did not reduce the beauty of the temple and temple grounds. This was the morning of March 13, 2007, about 8:30 a.m. 

In Opotiki we found the last remaining member of the two families that Alan and his companion found forty-five years earlier. A brother, sister-in-law and first wife had passed away earlier. He and his second wife took us to the farm where they lived when the missionaries located them and introduced them to the gospel. We stopped long enough to enjoy a delicious dinner and learn how they had progressed in the church. Meeting these people made the whole trip worthwhile for Alan. 

On the road to Opotiki where Alan served, we took this picture of some of the impressive vegitation that was so prevelant all over the island. 

At church in Tauranga we met Brother and Sister Tata whose son is the bishop. Here they are as a family in front of the "Pa" which is a community center where the Maori people hold a special activity to welcome visitors. 

They served us a lobster dinner our last formal night aboard ship. This was March 10, 2007, before we disembarked in Tauranga to visit the places were Alan served as a missionary forty-five year ago. 

This shows us dressed up for the last formal night on the ship on Saturday, March 10, before we landed at Taraunga, New Zealand, where we disembarked. 

This is one of the murals at the Antartic Center located in Christchurch, New Zealand, where the United States has equipment and supplies to keep the stations open in Antatica where exploration is going on all the time. Travel to and from those stations is easier from here than any other place. 

This picture of Walter Woolley was hanging in the front room of his daughter's home when we visited her in Glen Huon, Tasmania. Brother Woolley's children were very active in the church and were outstanding leaders. One of his descendents, Donald Arthur Woolley was one of the authors of the history of the LDS Church in Tasmania. The book has my father's name as one of the full-time missionaries who's name was found on the tithing rolls. It states that the missionaries had gainful employment at times to help support themselves so they paid tithing. Sister Lindy Prebble gave me a copy of the book. 

We were privileged to visit with Sister Woolley and three of her daughters in Glen Huon. She is the oldest living member of the church in Tasmania. She was born the year my father entered the mission. Sister Woolley's father, Walter Woolley, was one of the first members in Tasmania. 

This picture was taken at the chapel in Glen Huon, Tasmania, on March 4, 2007. This is where my father served his mission from April 1914 until 1916. VerNon, the bishop, Sister Lindy Prebble, Jeddie Alan and Sharon Bingham are in the picture. Bernice was the photographer. 

This is the chapel at Glen Huon, Tasmania, which was decided upon in 1927, to replace the orginal building which served as a chapel. Construction was begun three years later. The building was constructed by missionaries called for that purpose. 

Bernice, Sister Preble and Sharon Bingham are standing in front of the Preble home in Hobart, Tasmania. (March 4, 2007) 

This is the chapel in Hobart where we attended church on March 4, 2007, with Sister Preble. After church, she took us to her home and prepared lunch for us before taking us to Glen Huon where my father, Jeddie Archibald Bingham, served his mission in 1914-15. 

We arrived at Hobart, Tasmania aboard the Sapphire Princess on March 4, 2007. We were met at the dock by Sister Preble, the mother of a missionary serving in Boise, Idaho, who took us to the chapel where we were able to attend church.