Happy Easter to all!   

A Special Easter Message

                                                   

After four months, we have established a schedule of sorts.

• We attend two wards every Sunday. 

• We have District Meeting, every week.

• We attend the Temple, weekly or more.
• We pick up trash at the Sunset Beach Shower & Rest Area, monthly.

• We volunteer at the Kuhuku Food Bank, monthly.
• We attend both Sunset Branch councils, monthly

• We inspect the missionaries apartments, every six weeks.

• We volunteer at Pearl Harbor, every eight weeks.

Not scheduled, but happen, frequently:

• Driving missionaries to appointments. (Not all have cars).
• Our own appointments with investigators, and less active.
• Zone Conferences.
• Interviews with President and Sister Warner.
• Elder Cameron cleaning the ceiling fan. Come on, I had to add this!

Aloha

We had our first official 'P-Day Pad Party'. One of the Sisters in our District is great at organizing any gathering that has to do with food. Elder Cameron cooked them hamburgers, hotdogs, (and toasted the buns) chocolate chip cookies and butterscotch pudding dessert.      ( The dessert has been renamed: "Sin".) There were a few tomatoes, lettuce and onions to go on the burgers, but that is about all the fresh nutrition they could handle.
One of our missionaries, who is Tongan, brought ribs to barbecue. He hadn't had any for awhile and was excited. He also brought some strange looking oranges. He cut them open and used them to clean the grill before cooking. So clever.
The "kids" played guitar, ukeleles, sang and played games in the driveway. The Sisters, dog-piled on our bed and two of them took naps while the others played. It was a great day for all of us to eat and relax. 

Our front door. A great custom to imitate.

Enjoying the music and the dogs.

Games in the driveway with our entire District.

Aloha

During the the winter months, when the surf is very high, there are continuous advisories that come on our tech devices to keep everyone informed about the ocean surging over roads, closed roads, etc.. There have been massive, fifty foot waves, this year.

Sunset Beach

Sunset Beach

Sunset Beach

Waimea 

We're prepared! We wear our snorkel gear to bed!

Aloha

Can you stand another cleaning experience on "Mighty Mo"?

We were given a tour of the Communications Room, this trip.

  Captain Cameron, in the background.

Can anyone give me the year this computer was manufactured?

Were there shipboard computers in 1944?

Emergency phones

Radar equipment.

Elder Manalo, a very tidy, Filipino, found dirt that has been in the gunnels since the war ended. We were complimented amply...for his attention to the details. 

United Nations cleaning crew. Awesome!

The only thing that will get hurt by this gun, is me fooling with it.

Aloha

With all the flurry, excitement and gratitude for our new granddaughter, I am a little behind in my posts. However, catching up will be worth the wait. 
The third week of February, Tyson and Breanna, came to visit us in paradise. They left 8° weather and arrived in Hawaii to a utopian 80°.

Sunset Beach 

Laie Temple

Visitors Center

We introduced them to snorkeling at Turtle Bay and then they went off on their own adventures. 

They got some incredible underwater pictures of fish, turtles and an octopus. 

Our three Polynesians in their new ties!

Okay, this was just a funny experience. Scraping the barrel. Begging. Call it what you want.

Tyson, Breanna, Elder Cameron and I headed to Hanauma Bay to do some snorkeling. We had spent the morning at Aloha Stadium
checking out the swap meet. We got to the Bay in the afternoon (bad idea) and the sign said the parking lot was full. As we drove away, some cars came out. Figuring that would allow more in, Tyson turned around and tried to enter. The attendant wouldn't let us come in. Tyson explained several reasons why we should be admitted, but, we were denied. Not ready to give up, he asked if he could "drop his mother off and then they would come back out and walk from a different parking lot?" The attendant asked if we had a handicap sticker. No, we didn't. Here's my favorite, desperate part...Tyson said..."do you want to look at her?"

I about fell out of the car laughing. Did he really just say that? 

Needless to say, we did not get into the Bay.

Two days later, when the wind wasn't blowing and the waves weren't raucous, we left at 6 a.m. and got a prime parking spot at Hanauma
Bay, for a beautiful day of snorkeling! Life is good and so is never giving up! I love you, Tyson!

                                              Aloha 

                                      ~ February 25, 2016 ~

"Your newest granddaughter arrived IN THE LOBBY at 12:10. 
She weighs a healthy 7.13.  Both mom and baby are doing well."

Our son-in-law, Steve, let us know as soon as he could, considering such exciting circumstances. Looks like we have an over-achiever.

Kelsie Hurst~Aloha