On Our Way!

As we write this, we are about 1/2 of the way between Seattle and Hawaii on Delta flight 450. These past few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity as we were surounded by our family from Thanksgiving on. We had a chance to see everyone and fill up our "love buckets" before departing. Janice and I both had surgeries just before Christmas so we could be all fixed up for our mission. Around New Year's eve, there was an outbreak of COVID at the MTC in Utah (where we were scheduled to receive training) so we were offered a chance to go a week early to our apartment in Hawaii and participate in the online MTC training. This Sunday we gave talks in Church, Monday we were set apart, and today we are on our way to Hawaii for our mission. It is good to get to wear our nametags again. We are assigned to a brand new mission in Laie. Our mission President and his wife are going to meet us at the airpoty and take us to Laie. We are excited to meet them. We have talked several times to Brother Meyers, our Institute Director (and our "boss"). We are excited to go and make a difference. We will be working with young people in their late teens up through 30-years-old. That is such a critical time in life and we hope to be a positive influence to them as we teach them the hope that is available through Jesus Christ. We know that He lives. We know this not because we have seen him nor have we heard his voice. We know personally through the miraculous change he has brought to our hearts and the abundant blessings we have recieved by living his gospel. May God bless us all this coming year. We are so grateful for everyone who helped get us out here with your kind service and prayers. We have a wonderful friend that is staying in our and taking care of it. We will try to post a lot of pictures. I will try to attach a satellite image of where we will be living. The red dot is our apartment. You will notice that we are two blocks from the beach (second photo). We are three blocks from the Temple (third photo). Finally, we are 4 blocks from BYU Hawaii where we will be teaching (last photo).