Lovely Luau's

It's fun to dress in our alohawear & head over to Luau
after being so busy in the Research Office

An interesting thing about being a PCC missionary is that once or twice a week we are assigned to work at a Luau.  We wear “Alohawear” and serve at various venues with varying assignments. Last night we had our second experience helping with Luau!

Today we were in a three hour Sales and Marketing Meeting.  I'm remembering a line from a movie "If you build it, they will come."  I'm learning that building "it" is not sufficient without some marketing.  Marketing is so important to keep people coming and keeping people coming is important to help the PCC be more self reliant.  We have around 5,000 guests per day.

The PCC is so good at listening to the guests comments and continually works to improve the guest experience.

We have four students working with us in the research office and they are just delightful!  We have already become Ohana (family).  Our students are from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippians and Missouri.   One of our assignments is to help them build skills that will prepare them for life so that when they step off the plane in their homeland, they will be ready.  We do that by starting each day with prayer and a spiritual thought and a short training from the PCC handbook.  Then we all go to work on our many assignments.

Our mission call is to serve in quality control which means we become a part of so many divisions. Once a week we have a staff meeting which includes a live chat with Dell from San Diego. Also once a week we attend the  Sales & Marketing Meeting, & Luau Committee Meeting.  Twice a month we attend the Guest Experience Committee Meeting, the Ticket Takers Committee and  a Kokua Committee meeting which is just Chris & I and the BYU-H VP over Marketing.   All these meetings keep us informed of much of the workings of the PCC and help us know how we can best be of help. We have a lot of notes and a lot of stuff to work on and we are exhausted at the end of the day.

This is Hawaii!  No, ha ha it is not a vacation but we are having a wonderful time and experience.  We work hard and sweat alot and then at the end of the day Chris will often grab a boogie board & walk to the beach!  When I'm not too tired I'll get in too ha ha!  The water is just wonderfully warm and so refreshing!

Other news:  Chris recently got called into the High Council for our YSA stake..  His assigned area is auditing.  A member of the stake presidency is a Laie friend of Chris's from long ago.  They were in scouting together.

This week has been filled with many faces and many voices and I don't feel much further along than the week before but I'm sure I'll find my groove at some point. I am grateful for the kindness of the faces and voices.  My body got tired of sitting so I went outside to walk and heard a kind voice from somewhere say "How are you doing today, Auntie?"  I turned to see a Polynesian security officer and he was speaking to me! Ha ha.  I'm auntie.  :). I like that.

Message from a Tahiti brother in the Devotional:  It's good to not do something bad.  It's better to do something good.  It's best when we do the right thing no matter where we are or what we are doing.

Message from Br. Tuia in Sacrament Meeting.  Say much, much mistakes.  Say less, less mistakes.  Say nothing, no mistakes.  But I have to give a talk so I must say something & hope I won't make mistakes.  Ha ha.  He then spoke on Pres. Uchtdorf April Conf address "Perfect love casteth out fear".  I loved the reminder of that wonderful talk.