Expect partly sunny skies. The high will hit 80° on this humid and breezy day.
Monday, March 3, 2025
This is “Culture Night” week!! It is an extravaganza for the students in their Clubs. It is a two night event with 12 clubs showcasing their country through song and dance on Wednesday and again on Friday another 13 performing for us.
It requires hours of practice and costume preparation. With their already stressful schedule of class, homework and work hours. . . It is a dicey week!
Quite a few visits with students, tracking them down on campus at their hale or class or at work to check on them.
Finished the night with Ukulele class and dinner with Sister Parry!!
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Devotional Day! THIS is a fantastic hour of your time:
Now, there may be some of you here today who are thinking that for one reason or another, our Heavenly Father couldn’t love you or maybe He loves you but He would never be able to fully trust you. To that, I would simply offer up the words of Truman G. Madsen who said, “If there are some of you who have been tricked into the conviction that you have gone too far, … that you have had the poison of sin which makes it impossible ever again to be what you could have been—then hear me. I bear testimony that you cannot sink farther than the light and sweeping intelligence of Jesus Christ can reach. I bear testimony that as long as there is one spark of the will to repent and to reach, He is there. He did not just descend to your condition; he descended below it, ‘that He might be in all and through all things, the light of truth.’”
Sarah Sun Kanell writes, “In the middle of the story, Eve ruined everything. In the middle of the story, Joseph was rotting in prison. In the middle of the story, Noah built a boat for a storm that wasn’t coming. Moses wandered for forty years. Hannah was infertile. Isaac was not coming back from that hike. Jonah got stuck in a whale. Mary was going to get broken up with. Bethesda was too far. The Egyptians were too close. It was just mud. Lazarus was dead. And Jesus Christ underwhelmed the Jewish nation, was hung on a cross, and dashed all hopes of the revolution that had been hoped for for thousands of years. Everybody was ready to close the book on these stories.”
But those stories were not over and neither is yours. As Sarah Sun Kanell continues, “Joseph became second-in-command. The entire earth flooded. Milk and honey were everywhere. Hannah rejoiced. Isaac was spared. Ninevah repented. Mary became the mother of the Messiah. The paralytic leapt. The Red Sea parted. The blind man washed his face and could see. Lazarus was just kidding. And Jesus Christ pulled off the resurrection, defeating sin and death. And the earth that Eve thought she ruined was restored for all eternity.”
Trusting God with the rest of the story:
“I invite you to come to know the One who knows the rest of your story as knowing Him will create a trust that will get you through the difficult times that will inevitably come. I invite you to recognize opposition for what it is and to trust that, when that opposition comes as you are seeking to do what’s right, something good is likely just around the corner, and finally, I invite you to remember that as long as we are here on earth, we are always in the middle of our story but as we allow the Lord to co-author that story with us, the rest of the story will become more beautiful than we could’ve ever dreamed.”
Sister Pearson states it so beautifully that I just wanted to make sure you saw these parts if you don’t have the opportunity to listen to . . . the rest of the story!
We ended the day at the PCC:
Gateway Terrace location for the first timePCC Hall of Fame Hall
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
The campus Hope Squad did volunteer work for these nights. We were in charge of Ice Water Stations for the performers, of which there were over a thousand!
It is our first time amidst the energy and fervor of this
Night #1
This day started out at 8am on campus with student appointments and visits. Finished up in these seats until 11:00pm
Amazing Watch
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The sun still comes up on La’ie Point AND. . .there are still chickens!
We are still trying to conduct a regular school world in the mist of this wonderfulness. So, regular staff meetings. Then meeting for and with students, mediation for their life events, and so it goes. . .
P-day chores and errands. Mindy was at the cabin taking care of things:
Dinner for the young sister missionaries and then off to Kahuku 1st Ward to do a presentation on depression for their ward workshop night. Whew
Friday, March 7, 2025
We woke up to an amazing photo of our son Gregory reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro:
We survived the week of Culture Night(s). . . and it is Pday – we have chores and errands.
I sent Mindy my morning view:
Laie Point
Mindy went up to Bear Lake to take care of things for us up there and sent us wonderful pictures. I returned the favor and sent her my viewpoint of the North Shore. . .
Rescue HI SurfHigh Surf – No Swimming
On our Costco trip around the island. What used to be a 5 minute drive up the hill in Provo, is now a three hour trip for groceries and gas. The day was a success.
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – (Happy Birthday Mindy!)
Early Morning District Leader meeting 7:15am before church at 8am.
Welcome Daylight Savings Time
(oh that’s right, Hawaii doesn’t change time ever)
We had a wonderful lesson in Relief Society today it was the talk by Elder D. Todd Christofferson, “Burying our weapons of Rebellion”. The teacher Ema did a great job (and her New Zealand accent was a delight to listen to) left us with this challenge:
Don’t get energy from negativity
She asked us to write our weapon of rebellion that we need to bury. (Here is mine)
I am going to push send this afternoon before our devotional. We have the opportunity to hear Elder Gerrit W. Gong and his wife Susan Gong tonight on campus in the Canon Center. It will replace our Tuesday morning devotional. Again I don’t want to put two devotionals in one email. So I will start next week’s tonight with the devotional.
