MTC in Hawaii

Monday through Thursday, we dressed up in our nice MTC clothes and put on our nametags to join 11 other couples for the online MTC training. Brothers Napeirski and Lucas were our teachers. They did a good job taking us through the basics of the Preach My Gospel manual. Typically, they just work with 4 senior missionary couples each week but this week, there were 12 because some of them had tested positive for COVID and could not attend the in-person training. There were couples assigned to New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Washington D.C., California, Salt Lake, and Tennessee. Here is a picture of our district. We have our Church Educational System (CES) training this coming week.

We are still settling in and getting to know our surroundings. We looked for used bicycles and could not locate any that were reasonably-priced so we finally ordered new ones from Walmart that were $98. Nothing fancy, just one-speed cruiser bikes with coaster brakes. That should be sufficient however because everything is on the level here. It is a short ride to our office (when we get it fixed up and ready) and a even shorter ride to the market and the beach.

Just down from our house is a beautiful beach where we have been swimming every morning. It is at the end of Halela'a street which is the wide street that goes from the ocean up to the temple. Here is a couple of pictures of the beach. One was a spectacular moonrise that took our breath away.

We went to our Institute classes on Wednesday and Thursday nights. We are growing attached to the young people who are there and want to get to know them better. We will start teaching on Wednesday nights this coming week. We also attended the first ever after school Seminary class for students with special needs. It went really well and we will be attending every week to support the teacher (Sister Daniel) who is one of the student's mother and did a fantastic job teaching. Saturday, we participated in a senior missionary activity and rode down to the south part of the Island to Koko Crater Botanical Gardens and Sand Beach park for a picknic. We were riding with Elder and Sister Clark (Mission Mechanic and PCC vehicle clerk) and they took us to a Japanese temple that was beautiful. We got to ring a gong and walk the manicured gardens.