Our Little "Hale" now has 5.

                                  WE ARE NOW "ONE O'HANA SHARING ALOHA."
Sister Baker arrived last Sat evening, Mar 4 with the big rainstorm. They thought they would be washed away before she arrived. She is settling in nicely. She has the smallest room for awhile but in May when Diane leaves she will probably have the biggest one.

Polly,             Diane,       Cecely,        Karen  and now Raeola.

We had spent the day at Hanauma bay, swimming and watching the fish. It is a beautiful bay. I was there once before when we were here in "99". We saw many colorful fish but the funniest ones were black and white striped and they called them "convict fish."

    

Monday started with a sad farewell for the Clarks. They will be going back to Utah in a couple of weeks. They were one of the couples that met me at the airport and brought me to Laie. They will be missed but Elder Clark has been training an Elder to take his place as the "safety inspector" and Sis Clark was working in the cash office. I don't know who will take her place. Life will go on and someone else will be just as loved. That is the beauty of this place and we all come and go. (Notice all the beautiful lei's)

                                                       PLANTS OF THE WEEK

These flowers look like our petunias so I guess this is a petunia bush. Probably not but I will call it that anyway. Saw it while walking to stake conference today.

Side Track

At stake conference there were about a thousand kids of all different nationalities and a few, like about 20 "old" people. It was a good conference especially the afternoon session. Our General Authority was Ian S Ardern of the Seventy. He is from New Zealand. The most remarkable thing about it is that we FaceBooked 2,000 people with a message on keeping the sabbath day holy. It was totally amazing. He picked a young returned missionary and asked to see her phone and whamo it was done in a few seconds. 

Here they do not have an evening session on Sat because many of the kids work at the PCC in the evenings so we had two sessions today. It was almost like general conference.

Back to flowers

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This one was very interesting and quite large.

 

  

This is one of my favorites. It is like a tulip tree.

                           

                               The colors in this plant are scrumptious. The plants come from the PCC nursery          which the Carpenter's take care of.

                   

                        Wish I knew the names of the plants. Polly got this one from the PCC

                        nursery and it sits by our front door.