The trade winds are blowing.  That is HUGE.  It means that the temperature in our apartment has dropped from over 80 to now mid 70s.  It is so nice and even a little chilly when I walk in the morning. Mom is working hard in the library to sort out and update the children's collections.  

Mom in the Library

She enjoys her service, especially since there are no hours and she can come and go as she pleases.  Here is a photo at the front of the library.

Mom at the Library entrance

At the education building they are have a crisis of sorts.  They have been storing all kinds of things in their building and do not know what they have.  So Mom is sorting out, throwing out, and upsetting the pack-rat teachers.  They all see a need but teachers are such hoarders.  She may also be working with students from the Marshall Islands who are in teacher training but struggling with English.  That will be interesting.

I lost my full time secretary which has been hard to get used to. I also lost an operations budget and all the perks associated.  But I do have student teaching aids.  Here are Samantha and Aubrey.  Samantha is a local island girl and Aubrey is from Dallas.  Both are students at BYUH.  Aubrey is in graphic design and looked up Leah's webpage and was very impressed.  Leah is her new career role model.  She has a serious guy but Samantha is still looking.

Elder Wright with Aubrey and Samantha

This is my office.  I share it with a Bishop

We are still in training for our PCC assignment.  They take this very serious and even to take tickets at the luau you have to have hours of training.  It's okay, we are still waiting for our costumes so we have some time to wait.  That will be an interesting assignment.  I guess ticket people handle complaints and catch people sneaking in...
Here is the new missionary badge they issued.  We can now wear the black one or this one.

New Missionary badge

We had dinner with Bro. and Sister Cardno from Langley.  They are missionaries in the PCC.  Bro. Cardno is an AC specialist and sister Cardno works in costume sewing.  They have been here for a year and go home just before us.  It was fun to make a connection.  Lucky also because our car AC was not working so well so Bro Cardno charged it up and it works fine.  Another little help.

Finally we are getting forwarded mail.  It takes weeks to get from Springville to Laie.  They have a very inefficient system in which mail comes to a central office and then it takes a week to even get out of that office.  Any more aloha spirit and nothing would get done.  But they do smile a lot.

Our branch is coming together.  We have our second FHE this coming week so we will see who comes.  YSA are so unpredictable.  They now have an EQ Presidency and other callings are coming.  The Branch Presidency are very young and learning as they go.  It is fun to watch with little real responsibility other than to encourage and get to know the kids.  We don't have any membership lists so we don't know what is out there in surfer land for us to contact.  They say there are hundreds.  I am guessing maybe one hundred.  If you have seen the living conditions of the surfer crowd, it will be interesting to go knock on their doors.

So work is going great.  The branch is coming along.  Soon we will be at the PCC.  The only thing left is the temple.  We go every week but have not signed up for a worker shift until we see how this branch assignment turns out.  We don't know how many evenings it will take.  The challenge of a temple assignment is that they require six hours and that requires a free block of time.

I watched the BYU game and was just plain frustrated.  Our boys did not even show up.  Where was our QB and where did we get that O line?  However it would have been nice to be in a suite and have the cougar tails.