Lei of Light ~ 150 years to celebrate

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What a fun time to arrive on the islands. We have already been able to help with this celebration. Sister Cameron has been at BYU-H sewing costumes for the local youth that are participating. Elder Cameron has located a fan and will be setting that up in the sewing room, today, to masquerade as the trade winds.
Note that Elder D. Todd Christofferson will be the guest speaker for the Sunday devotional. We will be attending. Lucky!

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To catch up...we arrived here last Saturday night. Sunday morning we were assigned to attend a Samoan Ward. What an experience! The meeting was conducted in Samoan and the talks were in English. The men sing like warriors. Magnificent! I didn't even sing, I just listened. Some of the men and young men wear suits and some the traditional lava lava. Some with shoes, flip flops or barefoot.
The women wear muu muu's and the young women dress like typical teenagers. All have assorted footwear. I'm telling you, I am a Polynesian at heart.
We've attended two Trunk or Treats. One Samoan, one Tongan. Much like what we experienced in Caldwell, Idaho.

We were visiting with a young girl, and her father, Matt, disappeared and came back with these avocados he picked for us. The lemon looking fruit don't taste like lemon. He said they're a cross breed of something and are quite bitter. He also picked a ripe quava, which was very tasty.

The avocados are much bigger than they look. When they turn brown, they're ready to eat. Mmmmm.