Greetings from a rather warm evening in Hawaii! We’ve just come back to our new apartment from the monthly Break-the-Fast activity over at the Polynesian Cultural Center. The PCC is closed on Sundays but the senior missionaries have access to the Kawai Luau location on the first Sunday of each month for a potluck dinner. Tonight was a special dinner: Navajo Tacos. This was a meal put together by a resident Navajo and was very tasty! I’m rather stuffed and have certainly eaten in one meal more than I would normally eat in an entire day.
We’ve had another excellent week at here on our mission, both at the Visitors’ Center and at all of our other assignments. We’re pretty much moved in and most everything now has a place in our new apartment. I’ve started putting the ham radio station back together and may be able to push the transmit button in the next day or so.
The highlight of the week was on Saturday morning when we picked up Sister Smith’s sister, Aunt Pam at the Honolulu Airport. She’s here for the coming week, flying back home through Salt Lake City next Sunday evening. Both of them are at the dining table plotting out the week. We’ll be taking some time off from the Visitors’ Center while the Directors fill in for us (we’ll return the favor in a couple of weeks when they have family visiting from the mainland).
Aunt Pam was with us at the Visitors’ Center for our normal Sunday afternoon shift and was able to witness another proposal. A large group of young men started filing in around 2:30pm. I asked them what we could do for them. It turned out that they were her to cheer on their friend as he proposed to his girlfriend, in front of the Christus (of course). We’ve had several of these proposals and so far she’s always said “Yes!!”. Another event like that which happens fairly often is BYU-Hawaii students coming over to open their mission call letters.
This week started another transfer. We didn’t have any sister missionaries completing their mission this time (we lose four outstanding missionaries at the end of this transfer in middle October). Two new missionaries arrived from the MTC in Provo last Wednesday. We’re so happy to have them here! Both of them seem to be well prepared and anxious to be “all in” to their missionary assignment. Both are English-speaking, one of them also speaks Tongan. We have a German sister who has now been waiting for three months for a visa. As soon as the visa comes through, she’ll be on the next available airplane to fly to the MTC for a short orientation and then come here. In the meantime, she’s serving in one of the German missions.
Three and a half transfers to go and we’ll be headed back to the mainland. Time fiels by way too quickly! So, ’til next week!
Mahalo!
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