Reflections Then and Now: MGM Grande

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Staying Focused and Pictures from the Park

One of the highlights of every transfer (6-week periods that a mission is broken down into) is most definitely Zone Conference.

On Pohnpei, in 2004, there was a north zone and a south zone.

Missions are broken down into small zones, smaller districts and smallest areas.
Each companionship is assigned to an area.
A district is comprised of several areas, headed by a chosen missionary district leader.
A zone is made up of a few districts, headed by a companionship of zone leaders.

Both zones attended the same zone conference.

In the next few posts I'll share more of the notes that I took at this zone conference.

***June 28, 2004 JOURNAL: Zone Conference
Losing sight of our goals - Sister Pulispher - Florence Chadwick swam to the California Coast. Stopped less that a half mile from the coast because the fog was so dense that she couldn't see the coast. Reminds me of my run senior year. One of the coaches told Thomas Akeo and I that we only had 100 yards to go, so we started to pick up the pace But because we both weren't wearing our glasses, we couldn't see the finished we thought he was wrong. So we slowed our pace and began to walk. Then Mrs. Hansen came up behind us and said "What are you doing walking the last 50 yards?!" Then we looked and we could see the finish line and ran. It was that lack of vision that slowed us. We should we had trusted in what we knew was there.

12 June 2013

That was a true story about running without my glasses on. Never did that again, simply so I wouldn't make the same mistake of slowing down and wrecking a possible great run time.

Yesterday was a local holiday, Kamehameha Day. It was nice to have Lloyd home from school and all the babies together. Unfortunately, Nakeu, still had to go into work but that's okay.

We went to the park for a while and the babies hammed it up!

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Picture Fun

I thought about waiting until the 26th but that would be a long time away.

***June 26, 2004 JOURNAL: One Month
Today was a long and hard day. I was thinking way too much about home because I realized I've already been away for a month. I'm in a new situation and I miss the normalcy, the comfort zone. I miss home and the people there. That was comfort zone #1. I also miss the MTC, that was comfort zone #2.
Other than that slight bout with homesickness, it was a pretty good day. Our morning started early (6:00am) because we had district conference tonight. For service this morning we picked up trash. The people here are so against us helping them!
We taught a lady named Laurline. I actually taught! Mostly in English, but it was still good. Laurline was awesome. The spirit was so strong - it was nice to feel that in a discussion again. It was weird though. We had "get in, get powerful, get out" ingrained in us at the MTC, and it's not that way here, yet. I think that's something that will help, to get to a place where we can get in and get straight to the point.
We found Yolanda back at her "in-laws" house. That was not a good environment for living. Hard, very hard, to feel the spirit with so many things going on in the background. Not to mention, her in-laws, didn't want us there. GOOD TIMES.

9 June 2013
A Photo Review from the past few weeks:

The awesome Mother's Day Dinner the ward had for us. Kahea Montgomery headed up the decorations committee. It was awesome.