Thursday, October 26, 2023

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - cleanliness is next to Godliness

 Our Sisters LOVE to clean!…well, they love to clean the doors of the Visitor’s center. That and the glass around the temple model.  Not sure they keep their apartments this clean,  but they love to do it !

Sisters Morris and Lee

Sisters Johnson, Lee Aldridge, and Allen

Sisters Johnson and Alldredge

Also, the Jaeger family visited from Switzerland. They knew the Mullers we served with in France.




Monday, September 18, 2023

Sunday, July 23, 2023 - Laie Days Devotional

The Senior Missionaries were asked to sing a couple of songs for the Laie Days Devotional Al that was held in the Cannon Center. It was fun and we had some piano and ukulele accompaniment  for How Firm a Foundation, the Handcart Song and our mission song -The Cause of Christ. Elder Archibald was the narrator. 

(There is a lady on the front row, right in the middle, with a white dress and red shawl. Roger and I are standing just to the right of her. We are both singing and holding the ukulele music for the people beside us.)




Little did we know that this fireside would continue with so many performers and speakers that it lasted 3 HOURS !!!!! Here are some photos of other performers, all that have some special significance to Laie.


Sister Tonga and her family


Student at BYUH that is a violin virtuoso


Sr. Wolfgramm, from Laie, that used to sing with the Pop group - The Jets


Mt. Zion Baptist Church - they also had a full band accompanying them!

The Tongan Sisters



Sat. July 22, 2023 - Under Construction !

 We have so many things going wrong with this apartment that we live in! We try to tell the landlord about them and they don’t do anything. We offer to do the work and they don’t accept. But today, unbeknownst to us, they showed up to do some work on the deck and boards outside of the sliding door to our bedroom …something we hadn’t e en told them about!



We were very nervous that it would be like so many of their work projects that they just start and then leave half-way finished!  Especially since our. Ed room was totally exposed. But, luckily they had hired a workman and he finished and put it all back together! Whew!

Picture of Landon and his companion in front of a cool bldg. in Perth.

Another funny picture…one of our pass along cards was either thrown or blew into the fountain just outside the Visitor’s Center. Our Elders, who walk the grounds each day, tried to get it out, while being obedient NOT to get into the water! Ha!





Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Friday, July 21, 2023 - WATER AGAIN!!!!!

For the last 6 months the fountain in the plaza by the Visitor’s Center has been dry. The lights had quit working and they had to drain it to fix them. The trouble is, they didn’t have the parts and had to send off for them!! Of course, EVERYTHING takes a very long time in Hawaii. So there has been no water, no lights, no fountains. But now, they decided to re-fill  the fountain until such time as they can get all the parts .  When they do, they will have to drain it again, fix the lights, clean the fountain, then re-fill it.






We have really missed that working fountain!!!!


Thursday, July 20, 2023 - Tram Movie

 The sisters on our Social Media team- Sisters Fix and Romney, wanted to post a video explains our Tram tours from the PCC to the VC. They needed some people to act as Visitors, so they asked us. They did some filming and pictures, and Elder Handley took some video and pictures from his drone.

Sister Fix getting some of the actors ready for the video


Sister Romney getting ready to video people getting on the tram.


Elder Handley and his drone inside the VC in the temple hallway.


That night we went to North Shore Tacos to have a surprise birthday dinner for Elder Lee Young.


Left to right- Sister Ferreira, Elder & Sr. Sorensen, Elder & Sr. Neeley


Left to Right- Elder Mahaffey, Elder & Sr. Lee


                            Elder Lee Young - the birthday boy.



Saturday, August 12, 2023

Misc. Photos from June 12-19, 2023

 Here are some Misc. Photos…..

July 12-  Trevor in Rome and in front of theRoman Colloseum .



At our house in Utah. Arie and Sydney and Keely were going to Volleyball Camp at BYU.




July 13- on Pday we went to go see the newest Indiana Jones movie. Seein that Harrison Jones was 80, I do it think there will be any more films in this series!


As we were coming out of the theater we ran into Elder Paul Johnson, a general authority seventy who was on vacation with his wife.


July16, - pictures of the Monroes while on vacation at Lake Tahoe





And then - July19 - the Sanders are going to hear the pitter patter of little feet again at their house.  They just got a new puppy - Bucee !!!









Tuesday July 11, 2023 - Another power outage!

 It is always fun during a power outage.  We can only use the front Christus room since the huge windows let in enough light. But we cannot let anyone go to the back…too dark, or use the restrooms, since the pump that moved the sewage up the hill to the waste station is electric.  So we cannot flush the toilets.  Today, the President was holding a mission training in one of our theaters when the lights went out. So he just moved everyone into the front Christus room.



Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - cleanliness is next to Godliness

  Our Sisters LOVE to clean!…well, they love to clean the doors of the Visitor’s center. That and the glass around the temple model.  Not su...