Today is the three-month mark of our mission here in Hawaii. Two immediate thoughts: (1) the time has gone by very quickly and (2) it seems like we’ve been here forever. I don’t know how that works in the brain, but that’s definitely how I feel. We arrived in Laie a little after 6pm on March 19th and have been going pretty much non-stop since then. The whole thing will be over before I know it, I’m sure!
Yesterday for our Preparation Day we didn’t need to go anywhere. The furthest away from our home I went was to the trash can outside the garage. Nina set up with most of our kids a schedule for us to either Skype or Facetime with them. That was a great afternoon. We were able to catch up on lot of family news and the best part was being able to actually see people as we talked with them. We’ll be trying to do this a lot more often. It may not work to do it once a week, but a couple of times a month would be wonderful. We pretty much need to do these calls on our Preparation Day in order to get them all done in one day.
Earlier this week I had a crown break off while eating a chocolate chip cookie (it was almost sacreligious). This morning I drove an hour south to Kailua to a dentist who did some drilling to put in a post and cemented the tooth back in place in the lower left jaw. I got back to the Center just in time for the weekly 10:30am Story Hour put on by the sister missionaries for the local two-to-five year olds. It’s called Story Hour but actually only goes for about a half an hour. While that is going on in the front foyer in front of the Christus statue, I usually hang out in the back area to visit with guests who come in and aren’t interested in Story Hour. A lot of parents come to Story Hour with their kids and the sister missionaries have a great time acting out various stories from the Bible and the Book of Mormon.
All the preparation work is finally finished and the work crew started putting the new tile down in the fountain. One of the fellows told me that it would take about three weeks to complete the work. After they left I looked around the dumpster and found a small strip of the tile being put down.
I took a picture of the front and the back of the small strip of tile. It is normally in a block one foot by one foot in size. Since they had tossed this little strip away, we’ll probably use it for a coaster or something at the house. It’ll be very nice to have the fountain finished and working again!
Life is cool (it’s 73° and 78% humidity with a breeze out of the ENE at 5mph. Very pleasant).