Well, we were wrong. . .The hot weather is still with us. The palm trees are still but it is beginning to rain a little everyday. They say the tradewinds should be returning by Thursday. Even the locals have been complaining about the heat and humidity. Honolulu was 91 degrees on Thursday. Enough weather reporting.

This was a fairly typical week - work, ticket-taking on Tuesday at the Aloha luau, temple session on Wednesday. Friday was our big outing to Costco and Wal-Mart down in Mililani. We volunteered to go down and buy the food for the branch conference breakfast. Each general conference our branch reserves the Little Theater on campus and we gather at 5:30 AM! to watch the first session of Conference live. We have always done pancakes and eggs (and rice) for those who show up but this time the leaders said to simplify it so we had muffins, fruit and hot chocolate. The first time we did this I was a little skeptical. What YA is going to drag him or herself over to campus from the North Shore to watch Conference? I was happily surprised at the number of kids who come. This time we had around 35 attend. Here are a few pictures of our Saturday morning.

Nayomi (recent convert), Noah, and Sister W preparing breakfast

"Big Screen" TV Church

Zach (boy w/ hat on backwards) just received mission call to Mexico City.

That's about it for this week, except a big Happy Birthday to Elise who turned, never mind, on Friday and got to go to a Lone Peak football game. Better there than Cougar Stadium. That was a sad night in Cougar town. We felt bad for the team. Now we will see what happens this week.