Monday night we had another shift of Ask Me at the PCC. We had loaded up all 160+ cookies into a Playmate cooler and one other insulated bag and took them with us so we could go pass out cookies to the students after our shift.
I wish I had taken pictures while we were doing our cookie run, but since I forgot, here are pictures off the internet to give you an idea. Each of the cookies were individually wrapped like the picture above, only the cookies we gave out were larger than the one pictured. Then, the picture on the left looks like the playmate cooler we used except it doesn't say cookies on it, but it is blue. Picture it full of cookies.
We invited the young sister missionaries to come help us pass out the cookies to each of the student's dorm rooms.
We have two boy's dorms and two girl's dorms. Elder Rappleye is not allowed to go into the girl's dorms and I am not allowed to go into the boy's dorms. So Elder Rappleye had to pass out cookies to all the boy's dorm rooms by himself. Luckily there is not as many boys in the ward as girls. The sister missionaries came with me. One of the girl's Hales (dorms) just have 2 girl's to each room with a few single rooms, and the other girl's Hale has 6 girls to an apartment with their own kitchen. The boy's rooms were either 4 or 6 students to a room.
Last time we passed out cookies at the end of Fall semester we did not have very good luck finding the students home in their rooms. This time I posted on the ward's Facebook page ahead of time telling them when we would be delivering cookies. This post seemed to help because we probably caught at least one person in two thirds of the rooms at home.
The sister missionaries were so excited to be with me because they told me afterwards that they saw miracles happen. They have been trying all semester to meet and talk to several inactive members of the ward but could never get them to answer their doors. We were able to talk to two of the girl's they have been working on meeting all semester. I guess knocking on doors and announcing we have cookies can open even the most unlikely doors.
Just Elder Rappleye and I went back Tuesday night to try to finish passing out cookies to the ones we missed on Monday night. We got a few more, so I would say we reached about 90% of the ward members with our cookies this semester. As we continue to do it every on of semester, we hope they will excitedly anticipate our delivery.
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I have to do another shout out to my granddaughter, Lilli. She got inducted into the National Honor Society this week.
With the students having finals this week, I didn't have a field trip with the food warehouse team. We needed to go into Honolulu for some shopping and a gas run (the cheapest place on the island to get gas is Costco by at least 80 cents a gallon). While we were down in Honolulu, we took the time to visit Pu'u'ulaka'a, a state park commonly known as Tantalus. It's high above the city of Honolulu and the views were incredible! The pictures to the right are the view of Diamond Head (top picture) and Pearl Harbor (bottom picture) without being zoomed in.
It was also very windy.
The view of the top picture above is looking inland to the Ko'olua mountains. The bottom picture is a zoomed in view of Punchbowl, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, the green grassy hill in the foreground.
Pictured from left to right: Sister Kmak, Sister and Elder Archibald, Sister and Elder Duncan, Sister Pistorius, Sister Wright (she actually wasn't in our group, but we saw her as we were coming out and invited her to get in our picture), Sister and Elder Bodily, Elder Rappleye and I.
This week's town run was uneventful. Except they did send us on a little bit of a wild goose chase. They handed us a broken Milwaukee saws all and asked us to find a place in Honolulu that would fix it. That was hard since we don't really know about what companies are available in Honolulu that would do that. I googled places that fix Milwaukee tools and one suggestion came up. We were fairly close by it, but had to back track, so we headed over to the shop. I should have called them instead because when we got there, they told us that they don't do that kind of repair. That little adventure set us back at least 45 minutes. But as we were leaving a guy told us he knew a place that could fix it. We just wrote it down and when we returned to the PCC, passed on the information and will let them check into it. We could possibly be headed to that repair shop on a future town run.
On Friday, the motor pool and general warehouse had a luncheon for the boss, Anthony Wong. Wives were invited, so I got to tag along. Technically, Anthony is also the higher up boss for the Food Warehouse, but very rarely do I have any interaction with him. But Elder Rappleye has a lot of interaction with Anthony.
Can you see in the bottom picture to the left, the two Elder Bates? Ron Bates, on the far left, has been at the PCC longer than we have and is the electrician, and his brother, Mike, just arrived last week and is working in the motor pool with Elder Rappleye. The brothers look quite a bit alike, but we can tell them apart.
Here's a picture of the birthday boy, Anthony, in the picture to the right. He's wearing the lei and brown shirt. He never would tell us his exact birthday or how old he is.
Saturday, we spent doing things to get ready for our anniversary trip next week. I don't want to spoil it, so you'll have to read our next post to find out where we went and what we did to celebrate.
Sunday was a pretty full day with our church meetings from 9AM - 11AM, then Ward Council until 12:30 PM. This Sunday was our week to zoom with our family for a Group Family Home Evening, one of our favorite months where we share our favorite General Conference talk. Elder Rappleye's was Elder Holland's, "Motions of a Hidden Fire" and my favorite talk was Elder Bednar's, "Be Still, and Know That I Am God". After our Group Family Home Evening, I went back over to BYU-Hawaii and taught piano lessons to Tapu and Zaya. I think I'm the only one teaching two lessons every week. I may be losing Zaya because her church schedule just got changed to 2pm - 4pm and they may have to find someone who can teach her in the mornings, since I'm at church at that time. I hate giving up teaching her, but there may be no other choice.
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