Experience the Master Teacher and Birthdays

I should've known that counting down days of #100happydays was setting myself up for failure.  So, I decided to be more "room without walls" with it...

***July 2004: Messenger: President Pulispher's Message: Experience - The Master Teacher - pt3
          Hebrews 9:16 states, "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator."  Many people have given up their lives for their testimony.  We probably will not have to do that.  But somehow in someway, we will have to stand up for what we believe in.  Your mission is a witness to your father in Heaven that you have a testimony.  You have given up two years of your life.  That is a real credit to you.  That test, "What are you willing to do for your testimony?", will continue through out your life.  To our couples, you have passed the test one more time.  Experience - The Master Teacher.

9 February 2014

In the last few weeks we had two awesome birthdays for Alessandra and Itasca.  It's hard to believe that our little girl is already 3-years-old and that baby Tactac is real toddler.

We decided to have a small party for Pwopwo, so we needed to clean up the back yard a bit.  I enlisted the babies to help clean the back patio.

 Pwopwo (all of us really) really like the Disney movie "Frozen."  We're going printable on the birthday banners this year.  Pwopwo was excited to wake up to a birthday banner on her birthday.

We rented and bouncer and cotton candy machine for Pwopwo's birthday party.  The babies had fun while the mommies got to talk to each other.  Luckily the bouncer people didn't come to pick up the bouncer until 6pm.  We got to have some family bounce time after Daddy got back from seeing Lindsey Takeuchi at the temple and after everyone left.

One week and one day after Pwopwo's birthday is Tactac's birthday.  Tactac likes cars so we printed and put together this Disney "Cars" themed banner.  I don't know if Tactac has actually seen the banner.  It's a bit out of his normal field of view.

While Tactac's birthday party isn't until the end of the month (I couldn't handle back-to-back weekend parties) we had a small family celebration on his actual birthday (because he really knows ;)).

 Foodland makes an awesome chocolate sponge cake, and an extra candle for good luck.



Jerica bought Lloyd a glow worm for his 1st birthday because she remembered that I had a glow worm that I loved for forever.  We have continued this tradition and I managed to get these three still enough (although still a little blurry) to see all three with their respective glow worm lovies

Our babies fill our lives with joy and Nakeu and I continue to grow together each day.  It's amazing to think that 10 years ago Nakeu was gearing up for a mission and I was working on considering a mission.  And today, our missions are something we look on with fondness and thanksgiving and hope to be able to pass on to our babies.

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!