It's a New Car!!!!

 We found out that we inherited the car from the Maui Institute couple because they got a new car.  So we were able to turn in our older bucket of bolts car back to the Honolulu mission so they could send it to the auction and we got a 2019 Toyota Camry.  It is so nice to be able to drive down the road and carry on a conversation.  While we were in Honolulu, Kathy, the Institute administrative assistant took us up above the institute to an overlook of Honolulu.  It was breathtaking!  

We are having fun with the Young Adults and Institute.  Our lesson went well.  We taught on the trial of your faith and miracles.  They got pretty excited when they realized that we are surrounded by miracles everyday and that we just need to increase our faith to perceive them.  We have learned in our old age that you can only have so many coincidences in a row before you have to admit that it is a miracle.  Our call to this mission is a miracle.  Of all of the places in the world, we were assigned to serve here.  This is a place that is covered by our insurance to the extent that Janice can get her knees replaced fairly conveniently (well it is not convenient for her).  In addition, our mission president did not even hesitate when he learned that Janice needed her knees replaced in encouraging us to do it immediately.  Hence, Janice is scheduled to have her right knee replaced the end of this month.  She got a cortisone shot in her left knee to get her through the month and has been practically pain-free for a week.  Another coincidence?  We think not.

I took a little time Saturday to finish a painting we want to give to our last mission president and his wife.  The HoChings just live about 3 blocks from us.  Here it is without a frame.