Our connecting flight from Salt Lake was to Seattle, then on to Honolulu. We sat by a really nice young lady who had been training at Hill Air Force Base for Water and Air Quality. She asked about our name tags and it was easy to tell her about our mission and the kind of service we would be doing at the PCC. I told her to talk with the missionaries the next time she saw them walking down the street in Seattle. She said she has seen them many times with their "black name tags" and promised she would.
Everyone was so kind to us, knowing we were missionaries. One lady from Kauai gave us her seat so we had an extra seat to stretch out in. It was great to have the extra room and I did survive the 7 hr. flight without '"fighting" too bad. Gary was happy for that!! We also met a young Bishop from Hawaii who was so kind in telling us about the Island of Oahu.
Elder & Sister Palmer greeted us @ the airport with gorgeous violet leis made of orchards. I've never seen that many orchids all woven together in my life! It took about 45 min. to travel up the Kamehameha Highway to our little apartment. We had a beautiful fruit basket on our table and several food items in our fridge, compliment of the PCC for new missionaries. We dropped off our luggage, then Elder Palmer took us on a tour of the PCC. We were pooped since it was now 2 a.m.
First night was a nightmare! We have 3 Labrador dogs under our window, one little terrier upstairs and a German shepherd next door. In addition to the barking dogs, we were awakened EARLY the next morning to wild roosters crowing. In speaking to the landlord, he thought there were wild boars in the back yard (thus the dogs barking so much). What an Aloha Welcome!!
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| Our little apt. We stay in the bottom half and landlords up top. |
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