Yesterday, was December 7 - seventy four years since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Elder Cameron and I were driving to Honolulu for some training and we had two Japanese Sister missionaries with us. As we made the journey, we talked about Christmas traditions that our families celebrate and how much we'll miss them, but, that we are happy to be where we are and do what we are doing. We love these Sisters and we each have the same goal of teaching others of Jesus Christ. In seventy four years we've gone from wanting to destroy one another to wanting to save one another. My Dad, who is 90 years old, served (Thanks, Dad) in World War II, on the islands of Tinian and Saipan, so the dichotomy of us serving side by side with Japanese nationals is not lost on me.
Every six weeks, the missionaries on the island of Oahu, clean "Mighty Mo", also known as the USS Missouri battleship, which was the site of surrender with Japan, that ended the war.
It is now a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Check out our group of ship cleaners. Japanese, Filipino, Cambodian, Hawaiian, German, Tongan, Chinese and a few
Americans. Happy looking kids, aren't they. Maybe we can learn something from the younger generations.
Aloha
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