October 6th-8th

  "The more you know of Christ, the more you love Him. The more you love Him, the more you want to be like Him."  ❤️ We served because of LOVE!  We want to set an example for our posterity. I testify that He lives! I love Him and He loves all of us, and He wants us to return home to Him and our Heavenly Parents. I testify that the Church is true, that the Gospel was restored upon the Earth and that the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. President Nelson is our living Prophet today. 

  "We each have been given the gift of life. It's up to us to unwrap that gift, and to do something extraordinary with it!"

   John 3:16 " God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

                                                            We have been so blessed!! 

                                 

                         We got released today at 12:45 as Missionaries by President Mehr. 😥

Such a fun welcoming home pizza party Saturday night at Stephen and Ashley's home! We have such a                                                wonderful family who we love so much! 

                 We played this game at our welcoming home party that Austin put together. So fun! 

Nicholas and Austin ran their 20th.

                                                 Austin, Thomas and Nicholas ran the full.

                                               This is half and full Marathon runners. 

This is the half Marathon runners. 

Full and half marathon runners. 

Pasta party Friday night a Nicholas's vacation home. 😋

We came home to this amazing family at the airport. 

Wish everyone could have made it, but so grateful for those that did and it was so wonderful!! ❤️

October 2nd-5th

What an amazingly wonderful blessing it's been to serve in the Laie Hawaii Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We love the Lord and and we're so grateful for the many friends we have made and beautiful places we've seen and we surely will miss it all! ❤️

It's 8:00 pm Thursday night and we're flying home 🏠. So excited to see our family, friends, & home!! 

Airport✈️

Marks were left in places from where they were attached. 

After dinner We went here! 

Ship in the ocean

Yummy dinner. 😋

This wonderful couple picked us up to take us to dinner at an Air Force Base right by the airport. 

Pictures of our spotless apartment as we left. 😥

Talie, Coles daughter bought car today. She was so excited!

(Thursday)

Our last dinner in Laie at Taco Bell and our sweet friend Thummim was there. So fun to see her again before we leave. (Wednesday)

Bromley's stop by our apartment to say goodbye. So nice! (Wednesday)

Sister Olson stop by this morning to check our apartment. We passed inspection. 🙂 (Wednesday)

Beautiful moon shining on the ocean tonight. 🌛(Took this from our balcony)

Decided to go to the PCC tonight, one last time, to see the "Breath of Life" show. We went down on the stage after it was over so we could get some pictures. President Grace gave us a lifelong passes. Sweet! (Tuesday)

This is a picture that hangs in their office. It's an Eric Dowdle. We have a couple of his pictures in our home. This one is awesome! 

A painting of the waterfall at the PCC

A certificate of their appreciation of our service at the Polynesian Culture Center

This is the plaque that it sits on. 

This was carved by someone at the PCC. It's called a Patu. 

We had our exit interview with President Grace today. Such a great man! They're mailing home some fun gifts for us. (Tuesday)

Went over to the Laie cemetery and put some of our leis on our friend Kristines husbands headstone. Today is his birthday. 🎂 (Monday)