Whale watching off of Honolulu

The missionaries that serve in the Kahana Valley. Elder Allen and Elder Armstrong

Sunday February 3^rd.

Danny & Denise came to visit, they had dinner with us and Kassi Hartle came over from BYUH also.  They stayed at Ko’olina which is on the other of the island several miles west of Honolulu.

Tuesday February 5^th.

We all went to a BYUH Basketball game that was played in Honolulu. Danny treated us to a great steak dinner after the game.

Thursday February 7^th. Kassi Hartle received her mission call.  Danny & Denise came to our apartment and Kassi and three of her friends came over also to open her call.  We set up “face time” with her family in Lehi, Utah. It was exciting to see where she will be going. She was called to the Little Rock, Arkansas Mission.  We are sure she will be a great missionary.

Our Wednesday class in Kahana Valley is going well.  We had seven Children attend with two non-member neighbor children.  One of them gave the closing prayer and did a beautiful job. He had been taught by the full time elders some time ago.

Celebrating Kassi's mission call at Angels shaved ice :)

Tuesday February 12^th.

We attended the BYUH devotional, the speaker was May Shumway the wife of our stake president.  After the devotional we were walking out of the BYUH book store, President Shumway stopped us and invited us to attend the luncheon for his wife the devotional speaker along with President and Sister Wheelwright the president of BYUH.  During the luncheon we were ask to share our experiences at Kahana Valley.  In Attendance was a couple who knows several of the families in Kahana Valley and their history.  They said they would to go visiting with us.  The members here are very missionary minded and are always willing to help.

We have a new Senior Couple here now they will be serving in the Tongan Ward.  They are Elder & Sister Wishart from Orange County California.  They are friends of President and Sister Dalton and are from the same ward in California.  They have some health problems and will probably be here for 6 months.  They are very nice and it will be good to have them here he is part Tongan and will be a great blessing to that Ward.

Thursday February 14^th.

Valentine Day,  Dennis did not feel well so we stayed home for the day and got rested up.

Friday February 15^th.

Dennis is going to help our 2^nd. Ward unload a container of supplies for the Bishops store house in Honolulu it is about a 45 minute drive from our place here in Hau’ula.  He dropped me off a the mall so I can get a pedicure and pick up a few items, I can spend two hours easily at the mall.

Saturday February 16^th.

It is our Stake conference this weekend.  They have a service project on Saturday mornings this time it was a deep cleaning of the chapels inside and out.  We do a class on Kahana for the children that are  not there during the week so we went there after the service project.

Sunday February 17^th.

Dennis was ask to speak at the Priesthood Leadership meeting Sunday morning and then we went to Stake Conference.   The Stake Conference General session is held at the Cannon Center on the BYUH campus.  That is where they have Basketball and Volleyball games, it was nice sitting in seats with arm rests.