The funny outing of the week was our Saturday trip to the famous Aloha Stadium swap meet (the largest in the world). It is a few shops (t-shirts, aloha wear, trinkets, etc) repeated endlessly around the University of Hawaii football stadium.
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| Kaye with her new swap meet purse |
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| Kaye outside the Aloha Stadium |
I purchased some dried squid that was not bad and some other strange dried fish and is suppose to keep for up to a year in your fridge. I suppose that is because it is too awful to eat. But I actually think they are tasty. When you eat it you really are not hungry any more which is good for my diet.
After walking around and around we dropped by a real mall to walk around. We found an old fashioned Farrel's ice cream shop. They were started in Portland, Oregon in 1963 and going big in the 70's when we used to make family trips to Portland to see the Morse's. They went belly up after about a decade and were recently revived in Honolulu and southern California. They went from 130 shops to a dozen. The food was very good and the ice cream delicious. I broke my diet and had a banana split with Mom. So good. They still have the Pig's Trough and other Farrell favorites. They were the first to sing to birthday kids. Too bad Bob was not with us, they would have sung to him just like it was the 1970's.
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| Dennis at Farrells in Honolulu |
Our little branch (Sunset Beach) added five new members today. They are all mainland kids who give us some stability. The polynesian kids all live locally with their families so sometimes they come to the branch and sometimes they go with their families. That is understandable but does not help with branch stability. We had our first baptism as a branch this week. A local kid took the missionary lesson and was baptized. He bore his testimony after the baptism and that was special. His surfer friend also bore his testimony and that was interesting. Both have really good hearts and are important to the Branch.
The new counsellor in the BP has four little boys so we now have 10 little guys under 10 in the branch so we started a primary. Kaye was happy not to be the Primary president, again. Things seemed to go well in the first meeting today.
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| Dennis' students on cover of school magazine |
At work, the school newspaper did an article about prospective missionaries. They featured my missionary prep class on the cover and an article inside. This photo is of the cover and the three girls are in my mission prep class (which is mostly girls due to the new mission age) They asked me what I thought missionaries should be prepared to do and I said "work". Then I said, "A missionary needs to know how to work and must learn to do hard things...missionary work is very difficult, it is full of disappointment, it is physically demanding, it is emotionally demanding and it requires the best effor a missionary can give." Maybe too negative but maybe balance to the circus like atmosphere that surrounds a mission call. They then interviewed some of my students (who are a very good bunch). It was a good article but who knows how the administration will feel about it.
We continue to enjoy our adventure and are waiting for the trade winds to return so we don't have 90% humidity. I bought a weather station so I could track weather. Right now at 7:00 pm it is 75 inside, 74 outside and 88% humidity. It will rain big time tonight. But soon it will change and the heat and sunshine will return. Hopefully in time for the visit of Elise's family.
A senior mission is a once in a life-time adventure. Well worth the effort for the opportunity to complain about things that one is really enjoying.
Aloha stadium shopping is great for stretching the "saved in a mason jar" hawaiian spending money :) I totally remember eating at Farrels with our Morse cousins. Fun memory!
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