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.

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.

Monday, July 10, 2023 - The Garden

 You know that Roger loves to garden. He really missed it the first summer we were here. So this year he decided to just have one tomato plant.  He wanted to plant it in a big ceramic pot and put it on our deck, but he decided the pots were too expensive. (So typical).  So, he bought a Home Depot bucket, drilled holes in the bottom, filled it with potting soil and planted and staked his tomato.  Our neighbors downstairs also got one, but theirs blew over and almost died, so Roger took it up to our deck and tried to resurrect it.

Several weeks later, we discovered that with all the salt and wind here, nothing grows very well. We have gotten a few small tomatoes, but they are ver thick skinned and smaller than a full sized tomato should be. Roger has begun bringing the plants inside at night hoping to avoid the big winds and so much salt…but it hasn’t made a ton of difference! Rats!

Sunday, July 9, 2023- combined!

 During the summer, they combine our Young Single Adult wards. We now meet with the 11th, 12th, and 14th wards. It is nice because, even though we still meet at 9am, we were moved to the big Stake Center chapel on campus. A real chapel again! So fun!  In Relief Society we did something unexpected, but wonderful! We all stood, held hands and recited the RS theme.

It was a great reminder!

Friday, July 7, 2023 - fun times

 Sister Glassett, who served here and has since returned home, came back to visit:

Then we went to go shopping for some fabric. Sister Judy Madsen, downstairs, said she would make me an outfit and a matching Aloha shirt for Roger. We went to this HUGE fabric shop in Pearl City. We found some really cool fabric!

Then Judy and Barbara had me come down stairs for some fittings -

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My outfit is called a Puletasi. It is a Samoan outfit that is 2 piece, longer top over a longer skirt. We haven’t worn it yet…maybe saving them for our going home Aloha Oe???

Tuesday, July 4, 2023- Happy July the 4th !

We started the day with a very welcome picture of Zach. He had surgery on his knee on June 30 and this picture of him standing with his crutches in meant he was doing a whole lot better. He really tore up his knee and he has all the stitches to prove it!

Later that day we had our district over for a potluck dinner out on our deck!  We BBQ’d hamburgers, people brought baked beans and potato salad, and chips and drink. We also had homemade ice cream!  We originally just had our district, but then the Cannons brought their district and we had desert and then moved our chairs out the the head of our driveway to watch the PCC fireworks across the road all together!

LtoR- Jim and Shari Craghead, Kelly and James Mason, and Stacy Duncan- in the other district

These are the Be sons….brand new in our district….turns out his sister is Fayonne Rigby who we served with in France!!!

The Cannon’s district - LtoR- Dan and Stacy Duncan, Sherrie f Grant Cannon, and Jim and Erin Curtis- who we knew from our last mission working with the Missionary Dept.

Then we lined up for the fireworks show….

Sadly, after only 3 minutes of fireworks, they suddenly stopped!  We found out later that some of the stands that held the fireworks fell over and was shooting fireworks into dangerous places, so they had to shut down the whole show! Bummer!d

We DID get one nice one with the temple in the background, tho-