Aloha 7/30/13

Aloha,

Here it is the 24th of July or in Utah "Pioneer Day".  We (the M&M Sisters') did talk about some of our pioneer ancestors and the part they played in the Salt Lake Valley. Joseph Lee Robinson was a patriarch who traveled around giving blessings.  Our side (Rose) came from his 5th wife.  Polygamy was a commandment they lived in his day instituted by the Lord.

 

We also attended the temple as patrons on the 24th.  We ate lunch at Lei Lei's in Turtle Bay and took this picture of the new stop sign color.  What do you think?  We then worked our 5 hour shift Thursday in the temple.

On Friday, I had to go to the dentist and have a new filling.  I wondered if I would have any tooth left by the time she quit drilling.  That night we stopped by Nanakuli Park to check on our Branch.  They were camping out the 26-31st.  ***I will tell a cute story in next weeks blog about Bro. Totau (in green shirt) and his frying food.  No!  We did not camp out with them... we were the smart ones!

Aloha 7/23/13

Aloha,

Here we are back on track.  Chuggin' along!  We worked again in the Hawaii Temple on Thursday and it was so wonderful to be back in that sacred edifice helping the patrons to do their own work and work for their ancestors.  I had to wait until Sis. McGiven finished a session, but visited w/ Sis. Murdock, who is our supervisor.  She is such a sweet sister.  We decided to eat at Halei'wa Joes that night.  We had a 30 minute wait and almost as long for our meal to arrive.  We got acquainted w/a couple sitting beside us that were celebrating their 15th Anniversary.  I took a picture of them after figuring out the camera.  I pushed down on the button and my left finger got attacked by the pop-up flash.  Finally got the deed done.  They had their meal and were eating dessert and we were still waiting.  We should have just ordered dessert!

Aloha 7/16/13

Aloha,

This was quite a slow week except for my family and their activities.  I thought this blog would be dedicated to the 4th of July and other family activities.

We did go visiting with Sister Rolland from Waianae 1st on the 10th.  We were able to visit a couple of sisters.  One sister has had much sickness, but is very active.  She also showed us her art work.  Her neighbor is not active, but we encouraged her to attend Relief Society and enjoy the camaraderie of her sisters.   We had lunch w/Sister Rolland and headed back to our apartment.

Saturday, I accompanied Sis. Fielding and attended a Volunteer meeting for the Temple... actually I did not need to go because it was only for office workers, but it was a nice way of getting better acquainted w/ Sis. Fielding.  We made several stops on our way home... 1) BYU-Hawaii bookstore to buy tie tacks for her Elders in her zone, 2) Ted's... they are supposed to have the "best" pies!  Sorry, they don't get my vote.  I did get Sis. McGiven an eclair and it was a little weird too!  Round and just filled w/ whipped cream. 3) Lunch at the Kahuku Grill.

Aloha 7/10/13

Aloha,

This was an interesting week.  We went w/ Sister Rowland on Wednesday the 3rd and visited with Waianae 1st Ward.  We said a goodbye to Sis. Canisbog whom we have visited several times in the past.  She had 9 of her 10 children visiting for a grandchild's graduation.  She is 80 years old and loves going out with her son on his fishing boat.   We also said goodbye to Beauty and found out more about her life.  She was #8 in her family, but the father didn't want her and she went to live as a baby with another family who raised her.   She visited her bio-family when she was 11 years old.   At this time that family grew to 11 w/ her as #8.  There were 3 in the adopted family.  That is one thing that we have noticed... family members are raised by Aunties and Uncles.

This 4th of July was the strangest 4th I can ever remember.  We were invited for dinner w/ the Tongan Branch, but declined!  Instead, we had an  early dinner at the "Outback" and later went to the Stake Center to watch the fireworks, but didn't see any.  I checked several times off our patio, but did not see one firework "blasting in air!"   Oh well, I will be at Lake Tapps next year on the 4th and there will be plenty of fireworks and lots of smoke.

Aloha 7/3/13

Aloha,

This has been a great week.  We held our District Meeting at the Makakilo Stake center on the 25th.  When we separated into Districts, Elder Howard conducted our class on a video we watched entitled "Voices" from a talk by Elder James E. Faust.  We are surrounded by so many voices that can sway us from doing what we are called to do.   We must learn to filter out noise and be able to discern the quiet, peaceful and subtle voice of the spirit.  In D&C 42:6 & 14 we learn unless we have the spirit we should not teach.   Many times we will have an "aha" moment wondering where that came from.  If we live with faith as in the Indiana Jones movie where he took that leap of faith... think what is possible.  After our meeting we fed the missionaries because it was the last meeting of the month and no $$$.  We had sloppy joes, chips, green salad and cookies.

Wednesday we visited in the Kaelaloa Ward and met Sister Gomes and her mother.  Sister Gomes is in the Stake Relief Society Pesidency.   We then visited Sis Iona.  She attends the Kaelaloa Ward but her husband attends the Samaoan Ward.  She was the oldest of 11 children and cared for her parents until they passed.  She has one daughter living in Utah.   She sent us home with a big plate of food.