Dinner with SDR students

We call ourselves, SDR the Genius Bar.  ha ha  (Strategic Development & Research)  Our students decided to host a cultural dinner for all of us at Dexter's apartment.  It was so much fun!  Dexter brought Korean, AJ brought Filipino, Linda brought Taiwanese, Helam brought Chinese & I brought Danish!  What a feast!

Sea Life Park with Malatji's

Today we took Nature, Namzamo and Inathi on an outing to Honolulu and then we had lunch at Marukame Udon Noodle shop at Waikiki.

   

 

Artist Jaime Mendame

Each day when I go out to get the beam counts, I pass through the lovely art gallery at the Welcome Center.  A favorite painting holds my attention each time and I really love it.  One day I was passing through and "my painting" was gone.  I was so sad and wished I had purchased it.  The next day, to my great surprise,  the beautiful art was back!  Even better, the painter was there doing more beautiful art.  I had a lovely chat with him and he sold me "my painting" for a great PCC discount.  He signed the back and named it "Home Sweet Home".

 

Graduation

Our student, AJ Caduada, from the Philippines, was the student speaker at graduation today!  She did such a wonderful job and we were proud of her.  AJ will become a full time employee in our office now that she has graduated.  We are so thankful and hope it will be a positive experience for her.

   

Laie Happenings

We were serving at the Luau and then finished up the evening at Prime Dining where President M. Russel Ballard, president of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles was having dinner.

This is the beautiful Prime Dining Hall and the
white arrow is pointing to President M. Russel Ballard

 

After dinner we walked to our office and there we
saw again, President Ballard chatting with PCC employees.

       

Chris singing outside the Hale Aloha prior to luau

Beautiful flower arrangement at the luau
made by Misty

Visit from Aaron

We had a great week with Aaron visiting.  He brought work with him and worked at our place while we worked at the office and then we played.