October 4, 2014

At Family Home Evening this week, brother Christensen from BYU came and talked to us.  He has spoke at BYU Education Week and been a Mission President.  He talked on missionary service and missionary work.    It was a spiritual meeting.  He expressed his testimony and love for the Savior and ended testifying of the truthfulness of the gospel.  He said each of us was sacrificing to be here and told us everything will work out for good.   He told us he had just been diagnosed with cancer. We had worked at the PCC that night taking tickets so we barely made the meeting.   We have new missionaries both at BYU and PCC arriving.  The audience looked different to me.  Many couples and missionaries that I don't know very well.   Many couples we know well have finished their mission and  gone home.

On Wednesday we drove to Kanohaoe to the Farmers Market at the Mall.  We had heard about it but never been able to go.  Sister Cardnal would always bring us red beets from the Market.  We went with Fullers and found we had been missing a great way to pick up fresh vegetables and fruits.  We drove over after work and picked up beets, bananas, bread, onions, celery, and more.  Everything looked fresh and yummy.  We were all hungry while shopping so everything looked good.  We finished shopping for vegetables and went to a restaurant to eat.   The weather is changing, the sun is setting by 7:00 pm now.  We drove home in the dark and it was raining hard.

Farmers Market

Pounding Poi at the Market

They take the taro root and mash it up to make poi.  It's very much like a potato.  A staple for the Polynesians.  It has a bland taste  

The girls in our Relief Society are so on the ball.  I love these girls.  They don't need as much help as Papa's Elders do.  The girls seem to be on top of VT and lessons and music.  We had over 80 to Relief Society this week. Becca will be leaving on her mission right after Conference Weekend.  She will be missed.  Her Father passed away suddenly about 6 years ago and she has been working and putting herself through school since.  A mission will be great for her.

Relief Society Presidency, Nana, Secretary. Nina, President; Becca, 2st Counselor

Becca and Nina after Becca's Farewell

Saturday we had signed up to go on the new Zip line in Kahuku.  I decided it was about time to try this before I die….on my bucket list!   We had a good time.  It was very safe and smooth.  We rode up top of the mountain on four wheeler and had 7 different zip lines to get back down.  It was breathtaking.  Ron was the only male leader in our group…sounds like heaven right?  We had one couple from Germany, a father with his daughter that went with out group.  The rest were all single sisters here.

Our Group

This was a bit more than a Zip Line….Obstacle Course too.

View from above

Safety First

We could see gardens and fields of vegetables, banana trees and papaya fields

Sisters Price, Smith,Despain,Miyasaki,Tilly,Pollock,Johnson,Nielsen, Tremea, Elder Tremea

Saturdays seem to come by so fast.  We are busy working all week and sometimes drive to Milliani for supplies and gas after work.  In seamstress this past week Jessica announced she was pregnant. She is from Hong Kong.  Their culture does not divulge they are pregnant until after three months.   Maybe that's so the wife has to be sick the first 3 months in secret!  Anyway, we were all thrilled for her.  Apparently, she has been feeling pretty sick.  Eliza was excited and you can see in the picture.

Eliza and Jessica


Elder and Sister Petty at Kahuku Grill 

Last night we spent the evening with Elder and Sister Petty.  We went to Kahuku to the Kahuku 
Grill for food and then went to the Beach and watched the sunset.  I will always be grateful for Sister Petty.  She was the sister that took over my first job as coordinator of the Missionaries and scheduling for Luau's.   They are from Texas.  It's a second marriage and they have 12 children between them. One of Elder Petty's sons lives at Stone Cliff in St George.  Maybe we will see them after the mission.

Snow Administration Building

This is the Snow Building and is the Administration building for both BYUH and PCC.  It is also where Elder Tremea works.

We are looking forward to listening to Conference this weekend.  We will receive it live four hours later.  We are able to get it on the internet with our Computer.  We are anxious to listen and hear our beloved Prophet and Counselors.  We hope you at home are able to listen with your family and loved ones too.

We miss and love all of you.  We are counting the weeks, days now.  It brings mixed feelings and anxiousness.   We actually have many things to do to get ready to come home.  

Love you, Nona and Papa

We leave with a little Quote, and are blessed with the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

Quote:
“The Gift of the Holy Ghost. . . quickens all the intellectual facilities, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of a person, form and feature. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eye, music to the ears, and life to the whole being.”

Parley P. Pratt, Key to the Science of Theology