We’ve now, as of February 8th, been on our mission for eleven months … one year to go. There is so much (touristy) things to do that we haven’t even started! It’s time to kick things up a notch. We’ve been enjoying just fabulous weather. Highs in the upper 70’s or low 80’s, little or no wind, low humidity (50-60%), and brilliant, blue skies. It’s also delightful sleeping weather with the windows open and the breeze wafting through. The windows open have an added benefit in that the beach is less than a half mile east of the house and we can hear the surf all night long.
The visitors to the Visitors’ Center come in spurts. We’ll have a hundred to two hundred visitors one hour and less than ten another hour during the mornings. Today was definitely like that. From noon to 1:00pm we had more than fifty visitors. From 1:00 to 2:00pm we had 4 visitors. Nina likes to find a comfortable corner and read when we’re not busy. I also have my favorite chair and catch up on things in the world in my iPad as occasion permits. The sister missionaries will go back to the call center and connect with their online investigators so they can make good use of the downtime. Then, suddenly we get a group of 25 people from Brazil, all speaking Portuguese and little English, with a plethora of questions about the Temple and the Church. When that happens it’s all hands on deck to help them feel welcome and comfortable asking their questions.
We have the morning shift on Monday through Wednesday currently. After we got home today, Nina needed to make a quick trip to the store to pick up some items for Valentine’s cards for the sister missionaries. As she drove past one of the beaches she noticed that the ocean was quite busy and really churning up some impressive waves. So, we grabbed a couple of chairs and headed to our favorite ocean-watching beach, Sunset Beach about twenty minutes west of Laie.
I took a couple of videos. The first one is about a half-minute long showing the beach and the waves coming in:
The second one is about ten seconds long of a time-lapse on the beach, one picture every ten seconds:
The beach was a nice, quick break. We’re back home, Nina’s putting dinner together, and we’ll go back over to the Center a 8:00pm for a meeting with the Director, his wife, the other senior couple (Elder and Sister Andrus), and Nina and me. We get together fairly regularly right now since the other two couples are quite new and still figuring things out.
Life is very delightful! Ta ta for now!