I have found a place! Jan 26 2017!

This is my place. I am in the PCC facilities in purchasing. I think I am going to like what I am doing. Today, Thursday, is the first real day that I have been doing anything constructive and then I messed a couple of things up, (I wouldn't feel human if I didn't mess up a few times). Hopefully I will get the hang of it. I have used an Apple Computer for the last four years and today trying to go back to a PC with a different operating system was unsettling for me. It started coming back but I forgot to add a couple of attachments. (Do attachments really matter?) I guess some people think they need them so I did it over and everyone seemed happy. I work with some wonderful people. I will get their pictures on another day. 

At the office they start out the day with a small devotional. They read one chapter in the scriptures each day. Pua and Mici have been doing this for about 30 years and have been through the scriptures 7 times. I think that is amazing.

It has been quite the crazy week for me and for my roomies. From some with sickness, to locking keys in the car, to forgetting the keys and locking them in the house, to having a car and not having a car, then having a car again, to roommates loosing their phones, and to top it all off finding a rat in the washroom tonight (aghhhhh!)

We got him!!!!!
and many other happenings that the Lord has helped us through this week. Each incident has a story of its own. There have been many gracious people to help along the way. I know this will all come together and I will get in a routine and I also know that when that happens our roomies will go home and we will have to start again. Each new day is a surprise.

It has also been a busy week with many goings on, FHE, 2 temple days, etc. I didn't make it to everything. They keep us pretty busy for "old" people. Sunday evening Elder Hafen talked at a fireside at the temple visitors center. He talked of many miracles that have happened on some of the islands. He touched on three or four incidents of how faith had saved the lives of these people. I liked the one about the stake president, who was a tribal chief before he became a Mormon, who died and they wanted to have an LDS funeral but the tribe wanted a tribal funeral and how with God's help they managed to have two funerals and please everyone. It took some finagling to get all this in place and a wonderful woman (who was the recent chief's wife) to get the ball rolling. It was like Queen Esther in the bible. 

                  

The gentleman pictured above is Seamus Fitzgerald. He is from New Zealand. He worked his way up through the ranks of the PCC. He taught us about some of the cultural ways of the different Polynesian people and experiences they had working at the PCC. He is a very humble man and excellent teacher. I loved his accent. The PCC is just like Wellsville used to be, everyone is related in one way or another.

                                             

Cart training was very interesting on Wed. There are golf like carts everywhere on the PCC so we have to be trained on running them. Yes, I passed and can now run a cart if I get tired of walking.

Laie is a very special place and has a very different feeling about it. The people are all very kind and helpful to each other and almost everyone talks to you and wants to know about your life as you do theirs. I can't explain it, except it is like being in the temple only you are in a town. I am sure there are problems but I haven't seen them, yet. This was a sacred place to the Hawaiians even before the Christians came. It was blessed by Joseph F. Smith and he said that not just 1,000's, or 10's of thousands would come but that people would come by the millions to this place and on this barren land would be food and even water enough for everyone. There have been many millions who have passed through the PCC since 1963. I can't wait for you to come and enjoy the cultures of the pacific people.