Anyway~
This week was fun. It wasn't much different from last week up until today, yesterday, and Sunday, so that's what I'm going to focus on. Sunday morning I got up early for some reason, and so I decided to make my companion some chocolate macadamia nut pancakes because I am 99.9% sure I will be getting a new companion for my final transfer. I'm also pretty sure I'll stay in Hilo, but this week is transfers so you know the drill. Wait until next week. In fact, it might be easier to just not send anything at all. Getting mail is weird in Hilo, and I'll be home soon enough anyway. The first thing I'm going to do next transfer is take everything I don't need, and just ship it home to make packing less difficult. I'm coming home with just the bare necessities because I get to fly 5 times in under a week right there at the end of my mission, and extra baggage is definitely not welcome on that journey. In case you're wondering what I'm talking about let me tell you the list of flights that all need to happen right around the same time.
#1. I'm on Big Island right now. As far as I know, Hilo airport does not run flights direct to Utah like Oahu does, and that means I fly to Oahu first. I also know I'm flying to Oahu anyway because my plane ticket for home (which they gave me the information on a while ago) says I depart from Honolulu Airport. So there's that. That flight is about 45min. I think. That's what it was on the way here anyway.
#2. Oahu to Utah. Self explanatory. Long flight and I'll be tired, but such is life. I'll be happy to see my family and friends again too. Technically I get home at 6:30am, so it will be wake up time when I land.
#3. Utah to LAX. I'm going to Japan about 4 days after I get home, just to visit for 2 weeks. I'm really excited about that, but the hour long journey from Salt Lake to LA by air is not a pleasant one. LAX is very, very busy. I know because I was there when I went to Japan the first time. I will probably be somewhat stressed until I get on the flight directly afterward, but I suppose that's normal.
#4(last in series) LAX to Tokyo. This is the longest flight of them all. It's a beast of a ride that lasts anywhere from 10 hours to 14 hours. But the destination makes the journey worth it in this case.
The point of that whole explanation is that I'd like my flights on the Hawaii side of things to be as stress free as possible, and that means packing as light as possible. I also have to make sure there's no cockroaches hitching a ride in my luggage, which is a whole nother can of worms (or should I say roaches) that can wait for another day. It's just bizarre to me that May is almost over and I'm almost 20 years old already. Things are going by way too quickly. I'm excited to come home, but I also know I'll miss Hawaii very dearly.
BUT I GOT TOTALLY OFF SUBJECT AND WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING ABOUT PANCAKES SO BACK TO THAT---
I was making the pancakes because I thought it was a nice act of service, and for those of you who may not be aware, which is probably all of you because I never said anything about it until now, our cookware in Hilo is just absolute garbage. It's usable, and we make it work, but it's not exactly what you'd call professional quality stuff. The only cooking pan we have has holes in the insulation so if you grab it wrong you'll wind up burning yourself. This was the pan I was using. Now a little known fact about me is: I am a genius. Yes, it's true. So I did what any genius would do while cooking pancakes. I grabbed the pan handle to hold it still while I flipped the pancake over, and I grabbed the exact WRONG part of the handle, and I burned my hand, because like I said: genius. So that hurt a lot, and I burnt the pancakes too because I was dealing with the fact that flesh retains heat incredibly well, but ultimately they turned out good anyway because chocolate and macadamia nut could save anything. So it works out. Let it be known however, that I hate that stupid pan, and I hold it a grudge. Oven mitts are to be worn when using it from now on.
So then Monday happened, and it's a temple trip week so it wasn't p day on Monday. Temple trip is the kind of thing I haven't actually had in a while because Kauai had no temple. In case you didn't know though, Big Island does. It's a relatively small building and it's located in Kona town, amd you know what that means. It means considering the lilies with the Tabernacle Choir for hours on end at 5:30 in the morning so we could make it to the Kona temple by 8:00. I was a bit tired and groggy, but it was much worse for Elder Brooksby, because he forgot to go to the bathroom before we left and it hit him about 15 minutes in to the drive. Going to Kona instead of Waimea means taking saddle road, and the only thing resembling civilization out there is military training ground, so with no place to stop, and no time to stop either, Elder Brooksby earned himself the award of True Champion. He held it in for 2 solid hours, finally going to the bathroom once we got to the temple, and it was because of his iron will and fighting spirit we made it to Kona in record time that day, much to the dismay of our Tiwi.The temple trip was today (Tuesday) by the way. I made it sound like it was Monday but it wasn't. Monday was just a regular day, so happy Memorial Day I guess. Anywho, the temple grounds were absolutely beautiful. I'm very grateful I got the chance to go to both temples in Hawaii while I was on my mission, and between this one and the one in Laie on Oahu, I think I like this one the most. It's just so peaceful and quiet. I love it. The coolest thing was seeing the birds afterwards, because I actually saw a rare sight in Hawaii. That rare sight is parrots. Or parakeets, maybe. I think it was a parrot though, rather than the Rose Ringed parakeet, because of its size and head. It's hard to tell in the picture, but it had bright greet feathers with a scarlet red head. There was actually a whole flock of them, but they flew away before I could get really good shots, so even though the picture is blurry, please deal with it. We had family home evening with the Arrudas Monday night, and it went amazingly well. I really love the Arruda family, and I know I'll miss them a lot. Their son just got back from serving in Idaho, and we had a blast talking story with him for a while.
Other than that, nothing too exciting. This next week promises to be an interesting one though. I see lots of change on the horizon...
Until then, this is Elder Rogers, signing out from Hilo, Hawaii.
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