May Day ends and other Festivals begin.

Saturday was a day of devotion to our Christ and Savior Jesus Christ. We started Saturday morning with a devotional hosted by the Samoan Island in the PCC. It was a tribute to His loving hands and how our hands are His. He uses our hands on earth and everything we do for good is reflected back to His love for us.
    
Testimonies were given by the BYU-H students who work at the Samoan Island at the PCC. The students are the life of the different islands and they share their cultures and talents with the guests at the PCC. It is part of their scholarships to work and then when they finish serving here they go back and serve their country for a specified amount of time. How can this not help the world become a better place?
 The students decorated all week to make this a special devotional. It also was the beginning of a week of festivities in which they will end with the Fireknife championships. It will be an exciting week here because the Samoans know how to celebrate.
Here are some of the decorations. Notice the poles weaved in tea leaves, the beautiful flowers, a different variety of Heliconia that I have not seen before. The canoe that was carved and brought to the PCC and finished here. It is beautiful.

Notice the beautiful tapia cloth in the background and the pole woven with the tea leaves. The woven rug rolled beneath the tapa cloth was woven by guests as they visited the PCC.

In this picture you can see a bit more of the beautiful restored canoe. It is at the front of the stage. It is very, very, large. I wonder if it could float?

President Grace talked to us about good, better, best. He said, "Most of us don't struggle between right and wrong but struggle with good, better and best. He gave many examples of good, better and best. It is sometimes hard for me to choose best when good is easy. Something more to work on as I serve my mission, always striving for the best.

Let the Samoan Festival begin:

After the devotional the Samoan FireKnife festival was ushered in by a traditional dance. The young lady below is a representative of the daughter of the chief and is wearing traditional festival wear.

                       

 

YES! That is money on the ground. Lots and lots of it. When people love the performances money is thrown everywhere. It is so fund to see it fly through the air. It is then picked up and used for various charities or in this case to help fund the FireKnife festivities.

I love the doors at Prime Dining and the Island buffet. Sister Hanrahan and I was taking tickets and I wanted a picture of the doors. This is a beautiful place to enjoy part of my time here on earth.

Diane is leaving to come back to Arizona next week so we visited the place she worked. When inside I saw the purple chair, the purple flowers and I was dressed in purple so just a picture with the royal color. This was after the Samoan Festival.