Thursday, March 16, 2023 - Papa Ole’s and Waimea Falls

 One nice thing about traveling to Hawaii from the mainland is that you end up waking up very early each morning until your body’s time clock gets acclimated.  The nice thing is that you are awake for some beautiful sunrises!

Another nice thing is that we are able to start by going to Papa Ole’s for breakfast!

Papa and I always split the short stack supreme. It is 2 pancakes with banana bits and chocolate chips inside and this wonderful macadamia nut sauce on top!   Colby liked it too!

Lindsay and Cambria split an order of the thick French toast with the same sauce on top! Luckily I got a picture before they completely ate it all!!!

Then we headed out to Waimea Falls. A quick, easy almost a mile hike.

Along the way we saw some original Hawaiian village huts

Then we arrived at the Falls and some VERY COLD water!

We even got in under the extremely cold waterfall!  

Fun day! But, then we had to go to work at the VC…so the Sanders went in search of some waves to boogie board on. While they were here, we had amazingly flat water!  Not hardly any waves on our beach, or Pounders….so, they wound up at Pipeline to finally find some good waves!

Then, of course, no trip to the beach is complete without shave ice!

Later on that night the Sanders came to the Visitor’s Center to see what we do!

Had to take the traditional shot in front of the Christus!

Then, we played the narration of the Christus where Christ bears witness of himself.

And showed them the Welcome to Laie video.

And the Book of Mormon corner…

We always love showing our children and grandchildren how wonderful it is to serve a mission!

 

Wed. March 15, 2023 - Pearl Harbor

 I have seen Pearl Harbor now 4 times and it always makes me feel humbled.  It was fun to see it with the Sanders -  especially since Cameron has served in the military.

It is getting so hard to make reservations. We used to be able to just walk up to wait in a short line and see everything. Now you have to make reservation for everything here! But we managed to get reservations and even were able to get on the boat that takes you out to the Arizona memorial earlier than planned!

The Battleship Missouri is in the background- also a cool tour, but not for us today.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - Sanders come !!

 Sanders got here late last night and mostly we just all went to bed. Everyone was so  tired! 

We had a 7am temple appointment  so we had to get up early! Saw a great sunrise though….

It is always so great to be able to go to the temple with our kids!!

Then we had to go to work, but they went to a great little beach over by Sunset Beach that had a hike to a pillbox.

Then we met them for lunch and introduced them to Seven Brothers !!!

Then it was off to Pounders Beach….but surprise!!!!! No waves!  After having been there with all the other visitors, we were sure it would be some fun boogie boarding… but not today! I have never seen the water so calm!

So, we just enjoyed the beach!!!  Fun day!

 

Monday, March 13, 2023- Elder Cordon visit

 Elder Valeri Cordon is a counselor in our Area Authority Presidency. He is from Guatemala and is very smart…has a Masters from MIT !

Today, he came to tour the mission, go to zone conferences, do some trainings, etc.

He has been the director of the LA Visitor’s Center, and has been on the committee for all the Christus statues presentations

He did a devotional for all the Senior couples tonight. Because the Sanders were getting in a little later, we were able to go to it!

We are in the 3rd row from the back on the far left side.

Friday, March 10, 2023- some gorgeous pictures !

 Elder Handley, who works part-time at the PCC, and part-time in the office in charge of all the bikes and safety, is quite the photographer. He usually takes all of our missionary pictures, with drones, and regular cameras. Here are some of his recent beautiful pictures!

He is quite talented!

Wed. March 8 - helping the Sneddons

 We have an office couple who are service missionaries here. They sold their home in Immigration Canyon, UT and bought a home here. They have been renovating it and finally got to move into it. We went to help them.  They live out on Laie Point. When you open the front door, you have this gorgeous view through the living room out to the back patio.

They have such a gorgeous view of the water. Amazing!

Tuesday, March 7, 2023- New Teaching Center

 So, tonight we met with our AP Elders and Lead STL’s and others to move all the furniture out of 4 rooms in the TC. The church contractors will be here tomorrow to begin building cubicles for the sisters to use while they are working at the TC.

Elder Shockley taking the picture - 

LtR- Roger, Diedra, Elder Olsen, Sister Olsen, Sr. Weaver, Sr. Erickson, & Elder Kunz

Now our TC has many new cubicles with teaching centers equipped with monitors and headsets.

Sister Romney and Archibald

The sisters we work with that are in charge of the Teaching Center training for this transfer- 

Sisters Gonzalez and Beeson.