Ensign State Of Mind

Aloha family a me friends, "Come over her...Don't be scured...Go down de road. Up de country...See her hur and how she curs bout it...Mah Sistahs!!!" For the sake of it, I don't think I'll ever get over Bermudians accents and the people. This place just cracks me up every single day. And "if your phonebook listing inclues your nickname because no one knows your given name, you must be Bermudian", holds so true as we go out and see our friends around the island...Flesh, Country, Grapes, Skins, Bootsie, and Foxdog. Given names? Don't ask me. I got no idear.  But really. Names are so so important. This past Saturday prior to the baptism starting, Sister Pennock and I were cleaning up seaweed from the cove and we hear some noises from the water. We look up and see a giant blue parrot fish right in the cove and super close to the shoreline!! I look at my companion and I'm like "This is a hoailona (or sign in nature). It's gonn

Sister Pennock and I at the start of our crazy Valentine's day by a moon gate on Cambridge Resort and Spa  Aloha Family a me Friends! This week... Cut  5  onions without crying at Meals on Wheels  Heartattacked  5 (x2) people's homes on Valentine's Day Found  5  Indian men to teach (Indians are scattered Israel fyi)  Walked  5  too many miles on Valentine's Day (mightve killed my companion haha) 5  (minus 1) friends that I taught got baptized in Harlem and India this weekend And roughly ate  5  loquats a day  ...5555555 as my brother would always say since that translates to "hahahaha" in Thai. Well what a week :)  Additionally we have found this book that talks all about being Bermudian and it said something I thought was applicable: "If your favorite fruit is a loquat...from someone else's tree, you must be a Bermudian". Haha I guess Sister Pennock and I are halfway there with all the fruit we eat as we walk aro

Royal Naval Dockyard Round 3!  Aloha family a me friends! Ohana. Isnt it about...food?! *Wait* Family. Isn't it about time?  There we go that is what the commercials used to say. Family family family. The more that I have been here in Bermuda, the more I have learned that God never will place us in comfortable situations but He will never leave us alone. He speaks to us in different ways and many times its through the people around us Just some casual weekly planning hike down to the beach  across from our house Word spreads fast on an island but I know word spreads even faster when it's between family. Bermudians. Members and non members. Male and female. Nice ones and angry ones. They are all family. I have witnessed this especially these past couple weeks as I have seen the Bermuda branch come together as three members of our branch had their mothers past away in this past month and many many many members going in and out of the hospital.  In

Aloha family a me friends! Lehi states: "And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit". ( 1 Nephi 8:12 ) Likewise this past weekend, I became desirous that my Bermuda family should partake of my dear Sister Dunne's delicious, man-slaying, mouth-watering chocolate chip cookies that are "desirable above all other" cookies.  Luckily, she had given me the ingredients necessary and the temperature and time so that I may make them myself. I mixed everything together. Put the correct amount of each ingredient but to my surprise and frustration, they were nothing as I had before. Good enough to give out but definitely NOT the chocolate chip cookies I had desired. These cookies did not reach the potential they could become.  if you're wondering what I did on my year mark W