My sister Eileen and her husband Phil have been in Hawaii for the past week attending to Phil’s son’s graduation with his masters from the University of Hawaii. We were able to work an afternoon visit with them into our schedules and we had a delightful visit. We bought tickets for the luau and the night show at the Polynesian Cultural Center (I get a pretty nice discount) and had a great afternoon and evening. They are now living in Knab, Utah … a place that we’ll certainly visit next summer sometime when we’re back from our mission assignment. I think it’s a great place for them to live and a good place for us to visit, but probably not where we would want to live.

Where to live when we get home from this mission is now starting to be a question that we’re discussing and thinking about. We sold our home in Pocatello before we left on the mission. While all of our stuff (and plenty of stuff at that) is in storage in Pocatello, we don’t intend to make that our residence. Our children are scattered coast to coast, none of them in Idaho. We’d like to be a bit closer to some of our family. We want to be close to a temple. We also want to be close to a good airport with lots of connection options. I’d like a little less winter, but that’s not a hard decision criteria. One of the places that fits the bill fairly well is the Salt Lake City area. We’ll be making firmer plans as the year progresses. Tomorrow it’ll be fifteen months since we arrived in Laie on March 19, 2015. Less than eight months left and that time will pass in almost a blink of an eye.

Ta ta for now!