Vision: February 2011

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Eve's Prayer

Lately Eve has been saying the following prayer for a few weeks now whether it's a prayer to start spiritual time or bless the food:

" Heavenly Father, thank you for the day we love thee. In Jesus Christ, amen."

Tonight as I put her to bed we kneeled in prayer and she began to say this same prayer. We don't believe in giving rote prayers but one that is sincere so I kindly and gently stopped her and said "Mahealani, mommy would like you to say a different prayer. One that comes from your heart. Okay?"
She nods her head and begins to pray "Heavenly Father, thank you for my heart. In Jesus Christ, amen."

My heart was softened.

Happy Valentines Day!

Thursday, February 10, 2011

4 months

Can you believe these two are only 5 weeks apart? Her cousin Hank is probably wondering why she's so scared. I wish we lived closer to family so the little ones could grow up together. My tiny chimichanga is growing up so fast. She's in the 86 percentile for height, slightly below average on weight, and below average for head width. She's simply perfect. To be honest I don't stress about numbers anymore. I did for my first two and its just waisted energy. To me as long as they are growing and their healthy their perfect:) I love my chimichanga, piglet all time suckling!

Monday, February 7, 2011

Mark's Birthday

Mark celebrated his birthday in Kentucky. His siblings were so kind, thoughtful and generous! They really made him feel loved. I'm so grateful that you were born and placed in my life hunny.

Christmas Highlights

Asenath first Christmas. In this picture she's opening a present from her great auntie Joanne. Auntie Joanne shipped the present from Hawaii to Kentucky. It was a pleasant surprise.

We acted out the nativity. Mark was one of the wise men. He grabbed anything around the house and gave it to people for costumes.

One of the shepherds.

One of the wise men.

Mary riding a donkey and being escorted by Joseph.

What a darling Mary.

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.