It is Sunday 29 September.  Here I am at my desk working on our blog for the week.  I'm sure I will appreciate this at some point in my life, but right now it is my trial.  Fortunately, Dennis is very patient with me.  Maybe it is because he has nowhere to run! This is my little study area and you can just see the corner of dad's desk.  His area is much, much nicer.  haha.  We are separated by a lovely pole lamp and across the room is a fan by the window.  We have five fans in the apartment, all on 24/7. We clean the apt. every Saturday morning and do our laundry at the TVA laundromat.  It doesn't take too long.  Yesterday was a big day for us as we changed the roach traps.  So far I have only seen one roach in the apt. and it was dead.  Maybe word has spread throughout the roach community to avoid those people in apt. A200. I did see one little gecko dart across the kitchen counter.  It startled me but I'm not afraid of them.  Dennis said they are a good thing because they eat bugs.  I tried to go watch the Relief Society broadcast yesterday in 'real time.' The other sister missionaries and I ran around and checked out the three stake centers in our area but it wasn't being broadcast at any of them, so we came home and watched it on our own TV on BYU - TV.

Here is a picture of a few of the boys in our Sunset Beach branch.  I would tell you their names but I'm not sure yet who everybody is and I probably wouldn't be able to spell them anyway.  The kids are all very nice to us.  There seems to be a core group that attend all the Sunday meetings and our Family Home Evenings.  Others come and go.  Some are students, some have graduated, and most are working.  Most live in a small town up the road from Laie called Kahuku.  It would be nice if we could meet up there as it would be closer for most of them, but maybe there isn't room in any of the buildings.  We meet in the 'Little Theater' on campus with Sunday School and Relief Society held in classrooms in the McKay classroom building. Next Saturday, the Branch Presidency wants everyone to watch the Saturday morning of General Conference in 'real time' and so they are having a breakfast and watching it . . .at 5:30 am!


On Friday we went to the Dole Pineapple Plantation.  Here is a photo of two of the stages of growing pineapples.  As we were driving here, we passed many fields of red dirt which is very good for growing pineapples.  Workers were out planting some. They look like this.  In the second picture you can see a very small pineapple just beginning to grow.  I think they are fascinating to see because they look just like fully matured ones.  We learned that most of the pineapples in the world are now grown in South America, although Hawaii still grows a lot.  The Dole Plantation has become a huge tourist trap.  When we first came it was a small venture and we even toured the Dole plant and watched them cutting and canning pineapple.  Now it all about selling T-shirts.  They do make a tasty treat here called a Dole Whip.  It is pineapple sherbert.  I would have had one but the line was way too long.



2 comments:

  1. I can't believe the will power you had to not get a Dole Whip. I'd stand in line for hours for one of those.

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  2. You look so tiny and white next to those island boys! :) And that makes me sad that the Dole plantation has turned into a tourist trap... it seems like such a cool place

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