October 26, 2014

This week has been a mixed bag.  Emotions have been all at the service.  We have made so many friends they all feel like family away from home.

Friday night October 24, we went with a group of friends to Koneohe to the Haleiva Jo's Restaurant. It's a favorite of ours and they wanted to take us.  It was a beautiful night, and the fish dinner was oh so good.  Will be a long time for us to be able to come back here.  Good friends, fun night.

Fun Group of Missionaries!

Ron and Cathy

Wayne and Nancy Ricks

Deon and Gary Fuller

Bill and Stacy Pollack

Grant and Marlene Nielson

Terry and Ellen Johnson & Eddie

Our view while eating dinner.

Saturday we had our Stake Conference in the morning at 10:00 am.  Ron had an earlier Priesthood meeting with the young men.  It was a choice meeting.  Elder Pollack and Elder Lee talked. Unfortunately we didn't have the big attendance we had hoped for.  I think the Youth that made the effort to attend are the valiant ones.  They will be the leaders of the Church tomorrow.

The Ricks invited us over for Sunday Dinner.  We had a nice visit with them and Pollacks.  The Pollacks will go home in January.  They are anxious to get home too.  Ricks have just started heir mission and are enthusiastic and eager.  We just feel tired.  It's time for a change I guess.

Monday morning we drove our car to Honolulu to the boat.  Fullers followed us to bring us back.  It was a beautiful morning and we enjoyed the sunrise and ocean on the East side.  It took two hours to get the car on it's way.  After we went to our favorite Mexican Restaurant to eat, El Charro's.  It's a hole in the wall, but has really fresh good food.

This little car just got off the boat!  Notice driver is on right side of the car.

We stopped at Costco for prescriptions and gas.  When we got to the Dole Plantation we decided we needed pineapple ice-cream so we had to stop there.  I wanted to get a Pineapple Hat for Halloween too.  The ice cream was yummy.  They always have the fresh pineapple piled over the top of the ice-cream.  We drove home byway of the North Shore.  It looked like a big pond, no waves tonight.

We arrived home early enough to go to Family Home Evening.  A group talked about sponsoring endowments for the students education.  There is a good video called the Hukilau Principle found on BYUH site under Endowments/Entrepreneur.

My last day in Seamstress I repaired the American Flag.

Ivy  (from China) and Ukey(from Hong Kong)  were with me talking while I repaired the Flag.

This is the new crew in Costumes.  Left to Right…Sister Ricks, Sister Tremea, Sister Smith, Patai, Student from Fiji, Sister Dispain, Fatue and Cathy.
Patai looks big, and he is, but he's as gentle and kind as anyone I know.  

Tuesday was a regular working day.  Fatue invited me for lunch.  We had breadfruit and spam.   I must have been hungry because for some reason it tasted good to me.  I took home half of the breadfruit for Ron's lunch along with the spam.

Spam and Breadfruit 

Breadfruit is put in microwave for 20 minutes to cook.  It was very moist and tasted like a potato.

I have collected the zipper hooks from all the zippers I have replaced in the Costume Department.

Erik Rush a famous Rugby player was at BYU-H on the field with students.  We stopped to watch their workout.  He is the big guy in the green shirt.

Erik Rush

Coming to work Wednesday it was raining hard.  We drove in from the back entrance and noticed this fancy drain pipe from the roof of the building.  This is typical Polynesian plumbing and storm drains.

Cool Water Drain…..wonder where this water is collected to come out of the pipe?

Wednesday was my Farewell Party in Costume/Seamstress.  It was held in the Seamstress Room.
It was good, not quite as fun as Coopers, but good.  Too many tears.  I guess I'm too serious without Cooper here.  They gave me a pieced quilt and candy and Lai's.  Cathy and Fatue game me a black pearl ring and a bracelet from Samoa.  We had good food and entertainment.

Speeches….Fatai kept telling me not to look at her…we would both cry!

Left to Right, Students, Ivy, Ukey, Jessica, Vitti, Fatai, Elizza and me loaded with flowers and leis.

Goodbye

Students, Fatai and Elizza

Jessica from Hong Kong….,

Elder and Sister Ricks and Sister and Elder Tremea

Sister Smith with us

Cannon from India, Sister and Elder Tremea

I worked in Costumes in the morning and made two tablecloths from the fun fabrics.  Cathy said it was okay that I sewed my own!  We laughed about it.  We were short handed and Cathy was doing the wash and Sister Ricks and I were doing the mending and the sail.  Everyone was busy.

This concludes our Wednesday.  I was exhausted.  We came home and started to clean apartment.  We packed two boxes to be sent home Fed Ex.  Not sure how to get everything home, nor what to do with it once there.  I'm going to end this blog and start another because we have so many pictures. Looking forward to coming home.  Already seems like a dream that we will wake up soon.
Love and miss you.
Nona and Papa