Aloha Oe BYU-H Construction Planning and to the Senior Missionaries

This is our farewell lunch with the lunch bunch.
In the back left to right; David and Sherrie Anthony,
Wilf and Tina Mueller, and Kathy and Steve Kittelson

Bill's office took us to lunch. From left to
right; James Brown architect, Ed Rogers, Eric Conrad VP,
Elder David Tanner, DeAnn Tippetts, and Kirk Tyler

Bill served in the BYU-H YSA 2nd Stake High Council with
Pres. Casey and his counselor Pres. Logan.

This was our last senior missionary FHE where they bid you
and sing to you Aloha Oui. Here are Spring and Jean
Seiler who left about the same time as us.

Here are the Humphries who lived near us in Kahuku.

Steve Lundgren who oversaw the Hotel Management Program
at BYU-H, an employee.

You can see them serenading us with the ukuleles behind us
while they sang to us.

We were surprised to see all of our Salt Lake family at the
airport to meet us at 7am!

One of my coworkers from BYU-H actually surprised me
and came to our homecoming and brought a lei! She was
in St. George visiting her sister and drove up at midnight
 to make it in time. Taliani Pasi you are the BEST.

On our way to our homecoming Sacrament
Meeting wearing the beautiful leis that our landlord,
Finau Taufu, made us with loving care.

ALOHA OE ACS OFFICE

My final staff meeting

They had a nice going away party for me.

Lexi from So Cal ran the Alumni Office

Hyrum is from the Philippines and is a
husband and father

Hiva is from Oahu and took over the internships

Miya is from Mongolia

Keni Kalama is a manager and from Laie

Will  Numunga is a manager from the Cook Islands

Riri is from Japan

Fale is from Samoa

They made me give a speech of course

Delta is from Hong Kong and Russell is a Filipino

Sherrie Anthony and her husband are senior missionaries over
the on campus internship class

Tita is from Indonesia

Carolyn is from Canada via Tonga

AJ is from Seattle

Kiani from San Diego

Not mentioned yet is Drois on the right and to the left Emele
who is Tahitian

Fale live with us for 4 months when we
arrived home to do an internship at
the road home in SLC.

Geoff Lewis from Sacramento another manager

My boss, Mark Macdonald from Provo. I was
lucky to get a great position that was not
without its challenges, but very rewarding
and a perfect fit. I will miss all these great people.

"Aloha Oe” and our Hand Decorated Ukulele.

The last Sunday our Ward sang "Aloha Oe". It made me cry

to think of leaving these loving people

Dear Elder and Sister Garff,

Thank you so much for supporting my artwork, it was an honour to share with you a bit of me in gratitude for your service here at BYU-Hawaii.This piece was inspired by your shining examples of service and your family. The design begins with a Maori pattern in the form of a bird. The bird in the Maori culture represents high status, in my interpretation the call to serve as parents to four lovely children and as missionaries in teaching others about Christ is a noble call. Within the design of the bird shows four Koru also known as a fern coil. The two-big koru in the middle of the bird represents you two and the koru surrounding your children. The design moves into waves or clouds representing heaven or Hawaii and the time that you have had serving and working here. The design located above the waves is a Tahitian design depicting turtle shells; Just like a shell gives shelter to a turtle the homes that you help construct in the time that you were here is represented those efforts. The small pattern above those shells in another Tahitian design representing the overseeing eye of God in that construction. Lastly, the pattern above in a Tongan and Samoan design with a Maori element. The pattern represents the students that you influenced during your journey here. The little rivet looking circle shapes represents the knowledge and teachings retained by those students. One more design is located on the back of the ukulele representing Fiji which covers the majority of the islands that you interacted with. Thank you again, Elder and Sister Garff, for serving the Lord and his children. 
Arohanui - Hami

The Ward sang Aloha Oe to us and  it made me get 

teary-eyed. We will miss these students and those 

we served with.

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Following the song many of the students came up to say goodbye.

Chad the Elder's Quorum President. Bill
worked closely with him.

Paulo from the Philippines. Nice photo
bomb Jared.

These students had to wait in quite the line.

Nick  (from the Mainland) and Ezrym (from New Zealand) 

Ana the  loving Relief Society President. 

Took some missionaries bouldering
over to see some turtles and it did
not disappoint.

First time here for the Anthony's and the Kittelsons.

The beach was crowded due to low tide
creating a turtle traffic jam.

We spent our last Saturday having a great day snorkeling at
Shark's Cove and three tables and then fish tacos and shave ice.

Aloha to this beautiful isle and people.

Getting "Trunky"

I am going to miss these "peeps" in my office. There are
even a few missing that can be seen in the photo below.

Office Service Day picking up trash at Hukilau Beach.
Fale to my left, Taliana, and Emilee.

Rusell from the Philippines, Mairenda from Pohnpei, Emilee from
Fiji, Prince from Ghana, William from Cook Islands, Fale from
Samoa, and Taliana from Oahu.

Charilty Jung is the pretty Korean bride. She served  a mission
in the San Fernando Valley, in the CSUN YSA Ward with
my brother Dave and his wife Mary Lou. She married Jun, from
Malaysia.

On our P-Day we went to see the Iolani Palace.
It was fun to have Tom and Sandy Dunham with us.

They were filming a movie in front of the palace.

The queen's music box is fancier than Bill's
but is similar. It has the same picture inside.

This is a natural spring in front of the "coral" church.

The Kawaiahao Church is made out of coral bricks.
It was the first Christian church in Hawaii.

We had to take the obligatory photo in front of the
of the King Kamehameha statue. Afterwards
we went to Chinatown to the Golden Palace for
dim sum. It was $12.49 a couple and really delicious.