Another Week
Yesterday [Sunday] we went to a Hawiian church service, very interesting, and probably as Hawiian as anything we shall encounter here. All of the prayers, and some of the hymns were in the Hawiian language, and then in English. It is a 150 year old stone building, with 3 foot thick walls, newly refurbished, just a long & narrow building, interior all white, with absolutely nothing on the walls, and beautiful refinished hardwood floors. They had a Baptism [2] ,with the prayer part done during the service, and because it is located right on the beach, we went down to the beautiful blue Pacific for the immersion portion, what a gorgeous setting on a hot Sunday in Maui !
Ralph had several shifts of greeting new arrivals, helping with their baggage, and taking them to their rooms, so we didn't go very far for the remainder of the day.
Today Monday, Oct 17th, another perfect weather day on the Island. We ladies did more cleaning of lanias [balconies], the higher up we go, the more bird droppings on them!, made up some beds, and then 10 -12 of us scrubbed 75 of those white plastic garden chairs, and I mean scrub! After work, we went for a dip in the pool, not too hard to take.
Dinner was served in the dining room tonight, as most of the next group of participants are now here, so we only get our own breakfast, in our room, each morning.
We would love to hear from some of you who are able to read this blog, at least we hope you are able to access it, from time to time we have some computer problems.
May God keep you safe and well until next time!
Ralph had several shifts of greeting new arrivals, helping with their baggage, and taking them to their rooms, so we didn't go very far for the remainder of the day.
Today Monday, Oct 17th, another perfect weather day on the Island. We ladies did more cleaning of lanias [balconies], the higher up we go, the more bird droppings on them!, made up some beds, and then 10 -12 of us scrubbed 75 of those white plastic garden chairs, and I mean scrub! After work, we went for a dip in the pool, not too hard to take.
Dinner was served in the dining room tonight, as most of the next group of participants are now here, so we only get our own breakfast, in our room, each morning.
We would love to hear from some of you who are able to read this blog, at least we hope you are able to access it, from time to time we have some computer problems.
May God keep you safe and well until next time!
posted by Ralph and Marlene Robinson at 8:44 PM
1 Comments:
HI Ralph and Marlene
Wow, sounds great. Maybe you can get an extention to your trip. We will start the "40 Days of Purpose" on the 23rd of Oct. There are 23 host homes but Jon is happy with the response. It looks like it should be less work than the Alpha course was for the leaders but the participants still need to comit to their reading schedules. The weekly visual is only 20 minutes and will run for 2 hours each week.
Ed Stewart is up and about with a cane but doing well.
Ken Fowler was out to church last Sunday. He had lost some weight but is on the mend as well. Ken had an anurism which had to be removed as you recall.
Weather here is sunny but cool. But with the high of 16C in the day time ,we will gladly take it.
We will sign off for now and will stay in touch.
Cecilia and Larry
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