February 1 - 15

Jaxson Branaum almost 1 

Laie Point

Laie Point 

Joyce and Von Kesler from our HK mission 

Fran and Brent Peterson's are good friends of Gary and Diane.  Just arrived to serve at BYUH

The ocean in turmoil Sharks Cove

Aloha oe's to the Beuhrings, Tanners 

Two of our Sister missionaries, Sister Carter from Meier's Ward on right

Gage's first time at the temple and brother Josh bapatised him.

Our temple engineers, Bro. Tuttle, Dan, and Casey

Temple Road looking toward the ocean

Helping out at the VC for the Seabrings.  The VC is closed for renovation so they are totally outside.

Missiionaries leaving the Temple who are going home.  Sister Hoffman on the right, grandmother is Sister Nabors from Manhattan Temple we served with.

beautiful Hawaii mountains

Dinner at Pounders at PCC

As you can see there has been a lapse in my writing.  I just can't seem to get into the mood to write.  That better change.

February has been filled with a few visits and running into people we know from other missions.  This last week Von and Joyce Kesler from Hong Kong mission were here in Laie for a visit.  They had just finished a cruise with his family and were spending a few days here by themselves.  They are now living in Riverton.  We were so happy they contacted us.  We spent Sunday together.  They met us for Church then we drove down to Sharks coast to see the big waves.  We had a very unusual storm this last week.  The winds were coming from a different direction than usual and the ocean was definitely in turmoil.  The waves were up to 40-60 feet and you could see the white crests way out, which we never do.  There was a little rain but mostly wind.  We ended up being without power for about 5 hours.  Emily and Stu Wolthus came to the rescue and invited several friends and missionaries over for a bbq around 6.  We ate by candlelight and had a delicious dinner.  She is truely amazing.  She defrosted steak, salmon, shrimp and bbq it on the grill.  Luckily I had a few things in my fridge and I took fruit and salad.

It has been the coldest here in two years, in the 60's.  Every day we see a little sun, lots of rain, actually buckets of it for about 10 minutes, then overcast, then sun again and it starts all over again.  Luckily we have not been caught in a downpour yet.

Paul and I went to the dermetalogist the end of January and got a few things burned off.  He had some things on his ears but they have come back negative.  We looked a little strange but they have all fallen off now.

President and Sister Hollstrom took us to dinner at Turtle Bay a few weeks ago.  It was fun to get to know them better and we had a delicious meal.  They also came to FHE last Monday and invited all the missionaries who had a desire to come and serve in the temple as ordinance workers, volunteers or whoever they could.  We are in need of more workers.  When the BYUH students leave, because they serve four hours it leaves a skelton crew.  now.