Family Home Evening

On Monday nights we have Family Home Evening with the other senior couples. This last Monday, the 13th, we had three natives of Laie-"Uncle" Joe, "Auntie" Gladys, and Sissy! (Remember that you call anyone older than you are, "Auntie" or "Uncle")to sing and speak at our FHE. Uncle Joe has a fabulous low voice and sang to us. When he sang "The Hawaiian Wedding Song," Sissy sang the high part (which we had always thought was a guitar!) He also led us in Christmas songs. This precious man came with his walker and other challenges but entertained us royally. Auntie Gladys told us about when the church burned down in 1947 and they were going to have to come up with half of the price of rebuilding it which was a huge amount for the 300 members of this little community. But after prayer, they came up with the idea of having a "hukilau"-an activity where large amounts of people take a net about 300 feet long and 20 feet deep and go into the water and encircle a large school of fish. They pull it in and then have a big dinner. They had 1000 people (mostly tourists)at their first one. After 3 years, they had enough money to not only rebuild the church but also to buy an organ. The power of faith! She also recounted of when her dad came running in on a Sunday morning and said, "Happy! Happy!" (her mother's nickname) "The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor." Amazing to hear such things from a person who had actually experienced such a historical event and what life was like at that time. What an evening we had!