I love all of your blogs.....

...it keeps me posted as to what you are all doing. And to see the growth of your little ones.
Sundays are my favorite days. We went to the Laie 4th ward at 8:00AM yesterday, for Napua's sendoff....we even had a photo taken for our college page.
We charged over to the Hau'ula 3rd ward at 10:00AM for Fast & Testimony meeting, Sunday School, and then made final preparations for our talks at the Laie 10th, Singles ward at 2:00PM. We broke our Fast with Jace's ohana and then we were so worn out. We just vegged out until it was time to go to bed, and still l woke up this morning, "tired". It's Monday, and we had to be at Seminary to help our teachers set up their classrooms, by 5:40AM. I love our teachers, and students.

Matt.25:35-40

That is our topic Elder M and I are going to speak on tomorrow to the Laie 10th Singles ward.  We love these young people.  We enjoy our Institute sessions with them each week.  Now they want to hear more about how we met and what we liked about each other.  They are well aware of the Racial difference.  We have an interesting opportunity to define our relationship with each other, which now is filled with a third party, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  He was always there, but we didn't figure Him into the triangle as heavily in our marriage.  Our temple sealing helped along the way to strengthen the marriage, and raising three of the Lord's sons was the pinnacle of this union.  This mission is truly a delightful way to thank our Heavenly Father for His goodness.  

New Memory

I just got me a new memory card for my camera, so I hope to take some pictures to share here. I love all your blogs, so please continue to keep yours up too.

Isaiah??!!

I love Isaiah. I am still learning so much about his writings. It will take me all the rest of my life to continue to learn about what he has written for us.

Labor Day

We need to take a new picture of the beach across the street.  The shoreline has been eaten away so that there is very little  sand bar left to sit on the beach, and the blue bubbles are aplenty.  Ouch!

This morning, I woke up at 4:15AM, and I thought I would just wake up and exercise.  It took about 20 seconds before I realized it was a holiday, and we could sleep in.  And we did, until 6:30AM.  We enjoyed visiting with the ohana in Needham, Massachusetts on Skype.  I love this technology.  

I have been watching the Dog Whisperer almost all day.  It was a marathon of DW on NatGeo!  But I did take time off to have a BBQ with the family in the backyard, and then we all went to the beach afterward.  A new young couple moved in next door, who has moved from MA, to teach for one year at BYUH.  They came to have some grinds with us all.  Justin and Chyna, and baby Logan also came from Honolulu to spend the day with the family.  

It has been a nice day.  

Bento for the Soul

That is the title of our Institute class at the UofH Institute class we teach on Fridays. The students will be served a Bento plate, while we teach them from the Gen.Conf. Talks. We know that many of the talks are used for PH/RS lessons, and so we have quite a challenge to pull out things that pertain to this age group in this time of their lives. We are blessed to be here at this time in OUR lives and in OUR AGE group. The youth of today are so wonderful, sharp and so good. But they do have so many challenges. The sweet part of it all is tha the Lord has entrusted us to be the parents and grandparents to teach them. It's sweet, and awesome too. What a kuleana! Aloha nui loa

Midweek

We're at the Emp.Resource Center right now, a woman made an appointment, and she hasn't shown up yet. We both get on the computers in the Seminary office and in here. It's church computers, so if I pull up any other kind of sites, like youtube, or even facebook, it is blocked. I can see why. So if I don't get on the computer at home, which is so slow, I don't get to see some of the other stuff that is sent to us.
We are happily doing the Lord's work, on His authorized equipment, so this is what we need to do only. We do have time to finalize our Institute preparations while we sit here, and we do go over our Seminary reports for our teachers. We are on top of all that, so we feel good about coming to the offices here 6 hours a day, for two days. The other times, we come over anyway, to run reports.
Life is good. I continue to follow along with the online Seminary Home Study Course, but it still has some bugs in it. I had to open another account with gmail, so I could get my homework. But I would have to give up my Yahoo. So I didn't do it, and now I find out that the system from Utah has been working on Yahoo again. This is pilot program for us this year, and we are still working with it. It's nice. It's inspiring.

Noah

We had a scare last Saturday night, when he had a fever that wouldn't go down. It was hovering around the 104. mark, and even when he was submerged in a tub of tepid water, it would come down a degree, and then 30 minutes later shoot back up to 104 or better, even 105. So his parents took him to the hospital at 10pm that night, while we all prayed at home for him to be diagnosed well, and come home. The doctor determined it was a virus, not Swine Flu, and that he would get better with some motrin. By Sunday night, it was down to 99, and the family breathed easier. This morning he said, "guess what Tutu, my temperature is down." I told him he had good parents who knew what had to be done. And we thank our Heavenly Father once again for his deliverance.