This is our follow up to Ginny asking everyone to help Richard to get a picture to show up when someone googles Mormon. Check with Richard and get any additional details.

It was our time to organize Senior FHE this past Monday. We knew Elder Brinley was coming to our mission August 28th. We had read his book "America's Hope" right before we came on this misison. We actually read it twice because he talked about how the 3 peoples had been swept off this nation because of wickedness. He said we would have the same fate happen to us as happened to the Jaredites if we didn't stay righteous. Saving our freedom depends on the amount of righteusness we maintain in this country. Elder Brinley had just given a presentation on this at Education Week at BYU a couple weeks before he came here. We didn't tell the other 4 couples what we were doing for our activity. We invited Elder and Sister Eubanks and Elder and Sister McArthur. We had the most wonderful evening. Everyone loved the dinner, thanks to Stacy planning the menu and then Elder Brinley did his presentation using a projector. He referred to Glen Beck 3 times and how he is working hard to get people to wake up before we lose our freedom.

When FHE was over, the other couples were saying they were putting us in charge of all FHE's. After we got home and I had just gone to sleep, President Dalton called to say how very much he enjoyed the whole evening and thanked us for inviting the other 6 Saints to our FHE. He also told them to come back any time to our FHE. The bad part of that is it takes an hour to drive from Laie. Elder Brinley is CES at BYU-Hawaii and is the new Chaplain there. He took over Elder Cole's place who was our Stake President when we lived with Norma those 2 years. Elder Brinley has written 10 books. The other 9 are on marriage. He came from the BYU religion department. We had heard Elder Eubank on KBYU about a month ago talking about Kolob and of course weather patterns. We heard Elder McArthur speak on KBYU 2 Sundays ago about riding with President Hinckley to choose the location for the San Diego Temple. President Hinckley agreed with Elder McArthur that the land Elder McArthur had recommended 5 years before they decided to build a Temple in San Diego should be the site after looking at several locations with Elder McArthur. The problem was the land wasn't for sale. As you can guess, President Hinckley told Elder McArthur to obtain the land and of course he did. We hope the Eubanks and McArthurs can come speak to us at a FHE. The Eubanks and McArthurs are at the Temple Visitor Center in Laie too.

Elder and Sister Eubank eating Killer Brownies Sister Freeman had made for desert for our FHE. I tried to get pictures of everyone putting food in their mouth.

President and Sister Dalton at FHE with desert in his hand.

Elder and Sister Freeman, Elder Eubanks and President Dalton with their yummy desert.

Elder and Sister Webster, one of the regular couples at FHE. They are military missionaries. They have a ranch in Idaho.

Dad, Elder and Sister Brinley after his fantastic presentation. Sister Brinley wanted to share her desert but Elder Brinley said he could handle one by himself.

Elder and Sister Gilchrist. Sister Gilchrists grandfather was the Stonecutter. Maybe you have seen the video about him. He was the one who carved Holiness to the Lord over the doorway of the Salt Lake Temple. He lived in Alpine and walked to Salt Lake City to carve the stone for the Temple. He lost a leg so he made a wooden leg and continued to walk to SLC from Alpine to finish the work on the Temple. Sister Gilchrist told us this story when it was her turn to do the FHE. Wonderful people. They too are military and one of the 5 regular couples at our FHE. All these people have great pioneer heritage, especially President and Sister Dalton. Then there is Mom and Dad with not a lot of previous members of the church in our genealogy.

Elder and Sister McArthur. They said they are going to send us the video of his talk on BYU. They had been in the mission office and I had met them there a few months ago. We don't hear from them as much as the Eubanks so they thought we had them confused with a well known McArthur who teaches at BYU-Hawaii and had intended to invite the other McArthurs. I told them "no we have the RIGHT McArthurs. We love the associations with all the other Senior couples we have met.

President Dalton picked us up at 6:45 am Thurs. Sept 2nd to go to Pearl Harbor again. They had a lot of the vets, a Senator and a lot of other VIPs at this ceremony for the 65th signing of the peace treaty with Japan. This ship was in Tokyo for this event with General McArthur, Admiral Nimitz, Halsey and others. I hope to send everyone a program if I can get enough. When we looked at the aged vets, we wondered when they are all gone how many patriotic citizens will keep that spirit of America alive the way they did.

This is the USS Arizona with USS Missouri right behind it. Dad took this driving on the bridge to Ford Island.

President and Sister Dalton with Dad in the background.

All the red, white and blue was awesome.

Dad by the big guns!

Us!

Dad by one of the big bullets.

Military Band. They were pretty good.

Pearl Harbor

Dad liked being with all the servicemen.

The tower in the background is the airstrip where the Japs shot all the airplanes lined up for their easy target.

A picture of sailors on the lower deck and marines on the upper deck where they did the 21 gun salute. It was LOUD.

Big flag at the front of the ship. It was a beautiful day with a nice tradwind.

Elder Freeman, Dad and President Dalton in front of the big guns.

The men like their pictures by the big guns!

Freeman's, Dalton's and us. President Dalton took us to the 65th anniversary of the signing of the peace agreement between America and Japan Thursday, Sept. 2nd. This is the USS Missouri where General McArthur signed the agreement.

Mel the mailman bringing mail to the office. He gets overwhelmed some days by all he brings to us, especially Christmas and Valentines Day. It takes him several trips to get it all to the 4th floor to our office.

Mel bringing me the mail!

Here he comes

Bringing all those packages to us. Amazing how much missionaries look forward to mail - from anyone!

When we moved in this 29th floor apt., it was a nasty mess. The walls were filthy and the carpet was thread bare with 20 different colors of dirt. We talked the owners into buying paint and letting us paint this place and talked them into replacing the carpet. It is a very pleasant place to live now. It is right next to the tabernacle so takes us about 2 minutes to be in the Chapel and about 5 minutes to get to the office. So much better than the studio we lived in for almost 8 months.

This is obviously the bedroom. Yes, we now have a bedroom. It has been occupied by another couple for the last 4 days. They are here for CES mission and didn't have a place to stay. They were going to sleep in the Institute Bldg. and since they are 75 we told them to just stay with us for a few days. We sleep on a mattress in the living room.

This is our front door entrance.

Dad standing on our lanai (that is what they call a balcony here).

Dad on the Lanai with the ocean in the far background. That is Waikiki beach! We walk down to that beach every morning. It takes us about an hour.

Other end of our Lanai. That is Manoa valley where the U of H is.

A beautiful protestant church straight down from our Lanai. We don't know what they preach but it is a very busy church.

I am standing at the front door to take this picture. That is the Lanai in the background.

Dad is standing by the bathroom door. The bathroom is the only thing smaller than the studio we were in. The studio had a huge bathroom. This is a tiny bathroom.

Our favorite spot in the apt., our grandchildren's picture wall!

The front door in the the background and the bedroom doorway is just over Dad's shoulder.

The city didn't show up either past the Lanai.

We thought you would be able to see Diamond Head over Dad's head but it didn't show up.

Dad sitting at our little table on the Lanai. We like to eat breakfast there when we can. You can see some of the city past Dad.

Front door, digital picture with Dallas Cowboy's going past.

This sofa and mirror are a couple of the things I brought from the studio.

Our small kitchen in the background but at least we now have a kitchen and the fridge isn't a foot from our bed like the studio.

Dad and Brother Francis put this pergo floating floor in. It had 40 year old linoleum in before. The doors under the sink were rotten so I took them off and put these green curtains to cover the space under the sink. I also painted the cabinets and replaced the hardware. The manager is coming to take pictures of the apt to show the owners how nice this place is. Dad also put baseboards on. It is common for a lot of places to not even have baseboards. We saved the owner thousands by doing the labor. The manager got an estimate to have someone do what we did and the owners flat refused to do any of it because of the cost. She only agreed if we did everything.

The sun was shing bright in the kitchen window behind Dad to see the beautiful sky out the window. There are constant rainbows out this window and off our Lanai.

President and Sister Dalton came to our apartment after our Pearl Harbor trip to change. They were going next door to the Tabernacle for a baptism. The baptism was in the Freeman's ward. We took a picture of them in front of our grandchildren's picture.

I can't remember what this thing is called but it travels all over the ocean around the Island. We were told it can track an object as small as a baseball from New York City to Seattle. We pulled up close to it and Sister Dalton, Sister Freeman and I got out to take pictures. We were on Ford Island where no picture taking is allowed and suddenly we were being summoned by a military guard and he called the police to look at our cameras to delete our pictures. I told Sam he should have been a little faster getting us out of there. We later went to the USS Arizona and Dad was able to get this picture of the thing. If it is out cruising on the Ocean, we can take pictures but not when it is docked on Ford Island.

U.S.S Missouri - This ship was docked at Brereton, Wa. and the concensus of the Navy personel was it should be retired at Pearl Harbor because of it's history.

Same tracking device. Picture taken on the way to the USS Arizona.