January Adventures
Local Keiki (Island children).
We were asked to serve in the Visitors' Center, again. I enjoy doing this, very much.
Besides, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, we met two women from Poland
and a couple from Denmark, this time. The Danish woman was
very striking. Her mother is Danish and her father, Tongan.
Elder Cameron loves this picture that hangs in the Visitors' Center.
Our January has been very busy, as we hit the ground running, after the holidays.
We have served at the food bank, attended Zone Conference as well as a satellite broadcast from Salt Lake, explaining the changes to the missionary program. Missionaries can now customize their schedules to accommodate safety, local culture, health, and productivity.
For example, if you're serving in Hawaii, you get up at 6:30 a.m. and are home by 9:00 p.m.
If you're serving in Africa, you're up much earlier, because you must be home by 6:00 p.m. for safety concerns. If you're in Latin America, you sleep in later and come home later. Besides flexibility in daily schedules, p-day has additional time for emailing, laundry, shopping, exercising, etc.
Also, key indicators, which is how missionaries report their productivity, have gone from nine to four. Our missionaries are thrilled with the changes.
To quote Elder Bednar "I think one other thing that's intriguing about this is that this is a worldwide church and one size doesn't fit all".
I have decided (per request) to get somewhat more "personal" with this blog, so here goes.
President Uchtdorf came to Hawaii for a family vacation. He loved the food at the PCC and made a special effort to meet and compliment the cook. Well, "the cook" is the head chef at the PCC and our most recent baptism. Elder Cameron and I meet with him weekly and discuss gospel principles. He was pretty excited by the honor.
Aloha
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