Monday started off with a goodbye to our "roomie" Diane Dykeman. She has served almost a year at the PCC in the Island Offices. She will be missed but as with all things we will soon have another sister to move into our Hale and then it will all start again. We have had some enjoyable times together and an especially fun week of goodbye's. This is FHE at the Grant Building. This is the chapel that Cecily and I attend Church in. I wish you could see the intricate artwork in the panels. It is beautiful and so is Diane.Here we are having our "Ohana" farewell at Lei, Lei's restaurant.
On Sunday we had a wonderful Mother's Day Brunch. With each of us going to church at different times 11:00 was the only time we had to get together. We had french toast with bread from Tito's Grill. It was so good to hear from my family. We did FaceTime and I said hello and I love you face to face. I am so thankful for each one of them. That little Addie cakes took the cake with her antics. I love to see her.
Roses were on the agenda for the day. My family sent me roses, they planted a rosebush at my house and as the day progressed and we attended church each of us received roses from our wards. In our ward Bishop Mahoney had each of the mother's stand, (there were four of us), two single sister missionary and two couple missionaries. He had some of the young men give each of us three beautiful roses with baby's breath. It made me cry. They also added a hug. People here like to hug. I said it was a real hug from my family back home.
Rose bush that was planted in UT. It will be huge when I get home.
This is what the roses looked like at the beginning of the day an by evening this is what happened.
They multiplied and divided. We all had a wonderful mother's day. It ended with a devotional at the visitors center at the Laie Temple. My roommate Polly and all the senior missionaries presented a mother's day veteran's day presentation.
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