Vision: January 2008

Thursday, January 31, 2008

About Our Family Goals

Remember when you set goals it's because you want change and/ or consistency. Posting your goals helps you remember them and makes you feel more committed. So don't think were prideful, were just letting you know our weaknesses. So were counting on you to follow up with us, because we want to improve:)

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

We Made 11 Weeks

Mark and I have been parents for 11 weeks now. These past weeks have been hard, heart wrenching, fun, awesome, and lovely. Eve Mahealani has brought us even closer together. Mark and I really are a team. You just have to be in order to make things flow and never forget that God is our coach. Well Mark is studying at BYU-Hawaii in his last semester. We are just waiting to here back from a few law schools. We are not sure where we will be this coming fall for law school. Only time will tell. The end of April we will be flying up to Utah so Mark can graduate. We are so excited!

Juanita's Conversion Story

I feel that Heavenly Father has blessed me with the desire to play softball. The fact that the Lord was guiding me to play softball became more evident to me when I was offered a scholarship to play ball at BYU-Hawaii. The thought of attending BYU-Hawaii just seemed right and good at the time so I attended college there. My first year in college I was so excited to learn, play, and party. I discovered real soon that the students who attended the university had fun without drinking. I also discovered that the people were faithful and they had a strong sense of purpose and Identity. This compelled me to go on a spiritual search. I decided to take the lessons from the missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As I took the lessons I was taught things that I heard before and things that were new to me. Such as the Book of Mormon and the prophet Joseph Smith. These were things that were a challenge for me to believe. So I took these challenges up to the Lord and I asked him if the Book of Mormon is the word of God and if Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God. I'm so delighted to share with you that I do know that the Book of Mormon is true and that the Prophet Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God. I know that it's true because of the power of the Holy Spirit, because of these truths and much more I decided to be baptized and serve the Lord. Getting baptized was the best decision I ever made. It's because of this choice that I enjoy the blessing of life today. The church is true and I find myself indebt to the Lord forever.