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.