4/1/25
Talofa!
Last Sunday I taught all the Young Women again, the lesson was taken from the Come Follow Me Lesson and it was about ‘Laying aside the things of the World and seeking for a better’.... It went well even though I’m not good a google slides and kept messing up. We had mutual on thursday and it was for the young women to do baptisms at the temple. Only Erana and Isla were able to do it, so I joined in so we could get some family names done. It’s been a long time since I did baptisms for the dead. It went well, I got Erana some McDs for a treat afterwards. Friday I had no school, actually the start of my Spring Holiday. Dad and I went and did sealings at the temple and then came home got dressed and went to shoot our hand guns at the range. Dad had bought him a nice new hand gun, that I liked better than mine, cause it’s smaller and way better to shoot. Again it’s still kind’ve loud and scary to shoot guns, but guess what? I’m way better at shooting the target than Dad was. There was this really friendly older man that came over and complimented me and also gave us some tips about shooting. He also invited us to come to gun competitions that he goes to with his wife. He was a member of ‘Salt Lake Practical Shooting Association’ something like that lol. We brought our guns back home and then went and got some food storage from the LDS Food Storage Center in Sandy. And we went to Trader Joes and Costco, and got a few things. I had to bring something for Uncle Scott’s 50th Birthday party. I brought bulgogi pot stickers and Honey dew melon to Uncles Party. Aunty Heather had a huge sign on the lawn for him. Heather’s family was there, and us except for the Wedlings. They were at Dodge’s grandads complex. Mina will probably write about it. We had Raising Canes chicken, croissant sandwiches, salad, fruit, Shrimp, rice and macaroni salad. Jeff, Val, KC, Lindsay and kids, Talia and boyfriend (Nate) and Jaxon were at the party. Uncle Scott got a ton of lollies and goodies for gifts. Saturday didn’t do much, I woke up early and helped cleaned the chapel again. This was our last Saturday and by now I’m a pro, doing 3 jobs at a time lol. Sunday the wedlings didn’t come over cause they were still gone. We had a stew I made in the crockpot and garlic brats sausages. I went and visited Isla Sanders and Daphne Ferguson with Julie Jensen, she mainly talked lol. Misty mentioned Ben is going to be Murray High Schools Salutatorian, he was upset he didn’t get Valedictorian. I was just amazed at how smart the Ferguson kids are lol.
Well that what happened last week. It’s Tuesday today and were off to Orlando tomorrow. And waiting for you to call. The wedlings will be sleeping over tonight. Love you talk to you soon! Mum and Dad xxx
Talofa Sister Wihongi,
Alisa and I spent the weekend at Dodge’s Grandpa's cabin with Mina and Tane and another couple. Dodge's Grandpa built the cabin for the end of the world. It’s on a huge plot of land out in nowhere. It’s pretty cool. We played a lot of games, including blood on the clocktower one night. There's also a pickleball court we played on one of the days because it was nice out, an atv track we rode around, and a lot of other fun stuff to do on the property. There’s also a massive playroom that looks like a marai where we played basketball and ping pong. In the basement there's a little theater room where we connected and played the switch. There’s a small town about 10 minutes away with a restaurant we went to called wheelers for shakes. Alisa got a raspberry shake and I got a coconut cream pie shake, it was so good. Anyways we are sleeping over at mum and dads house tonight because we gotta get up super early to leave for Florida. We miss and love you. Tyrell and Alisa.
Hi Sis Wihongi,
Basically we did what tyrell already wrote about, staying at Dodges cabin. It was really fun! I liked playing pickleball out there. Tane and I were in charge of making breakfast while we stayed there and we provided parfaits, sausage patties, cheesy eggs, and monkey bread. Monkey bread is pull apart cinnamon sugar bread and when i made it, it was waaay too sugary. But everyone ate it still anyways. I also got a spray tan with alisa because alisas sister is learning how to do them. It's not super noticeable but it does look like I'm tanner. Anyways, I can't remember if I did anything else other than that. It's been a slow week. Anyways hope you are having a great time. Love you heaps! -Mina and Tane xoxo
4/13/25
Talofa!
Wednesday April 2nd we (our whole family except for Leila) went on our family vacation. We asked Talia to look after Kiko while we were gone, left her $40 dollars and will give her more if she did her job properly. The wedlings slept over the night before. We woke up really early and drove to the airport and parked in long term parking. I had Scott’s van because they are in Tahiti and will be taking their van home when they return. We flew on Frontier Airlines. We sat together cause Dad accidentally paid for seats while checking in, but no worries lol We had a layover in Denver, we got some yummy sandwiches for brunch. We slept on the flights cause there was no tv’s. We were staying at the Hilton Grand Vacations at Sea World. This would be the 3rd time Dad and I have stayed in this Hotel, it’s one of our favorites. We were given rooms in the same building ‘Tucker Town’ on the same floor but at the opposite ends.
Thursday April 3rd. Early in the morning we walked to ‘Discovery Cove’, about a 10-15 min walk. We went and ate breakfast first, buffet style, eggs, sausage, bacon, fruit, waffles, french toast. I got my prescribed goggles and then we got our lockers, wetsuit vests, and towels. We saved seats in front of the Lazy River. We went and swam in the Grand Reef with fish and stingrays etc. They had changed it a bit with a wooden fence around it and you have to wear life jackets. Dad and I didn’t like the changes. They were also understaffed and the Lazy River and Marmoset lazy river were not fully running to it’s full potential. So I went and asked for compensation, which turned into giving us another free day. I chose Tuesday, which was our free day. Birds weren’t hungry in the Aviary, it was a little crowded cause of the Lazy Rivers not being fully opened. But it did fully open around 2pm. We ate lunch, shrimp ceviche, steak, salad, fruit. We got rained on in the Lazy River. When we got back to the hotel, we went and sat in 1 of the 3 hot tubs at the hotel pool area. Kids and Dad played a dice game.
Friday April 4th walked over the Sea World. We got each couple a Sea World Spring food festival lanyard. A nice lady let me use her membership which gave me 18 food selections instead of 15. Went on the Pipeline first a couple of times. Then we walked around and tasted food and went on rides. Did a lot more walking due to our food lanyards. Our favorite food was the Brazilian steak. Second yummies was lamb chops, poke, banana foster beignet, vanilla ice-cream with caramel popcorn. Went on the new penguin Tyrell got a headache from rides, Mina rode the water raft ride and got wet.
Saturday April 5th, caught the shuttle bus to Aquatica. We had to quickly beat the crowd to get a spot under a huge umbrella. And then after we got our spot, I bought every couple a All You Can Eat food ticket. We didn’t go on many of the rides, mainly because we didn’t want to stand in the long lines. We mainly sunned, went in the lazy river and ate food every 90 minutes. When we got back to the hotel, we rested a bit and also went for a dip in the hotel’s hot tub. Karaoke was happening and a lot of little girls singing Disney songs lol
Sunday April 6th we slept in, and then went to sun at our Hotel pool area. We found a nice corner spot and laid out. Wedlings and kids came eventually and we had a dip in the pool. And then when it was time Dad and I went back to our Hotel Room to watch General Conference on our tablet. After it was done, the kids went to ‘Disney Springs’ and Dad and I went for a walk to the CVS Pharmacy store and 7’11. We realized we should’ve bought our sunblock and after sun lotion there cause the hotel sunblock was a rip!! I got some hot wings from 7’11 and ate them while watching the 2nd half of General Conference. About 630pm we walked over to Seaworld to ride our favorite roller coasters, the Mako and Manta, then got an expensive ice cream.
Monday April 7th, early morning we walked over to Sea World and caught the Bus to Busch Gardens. There weren't a lot of people waiting so we knew we would be able to sit together. Busch Gardens also wasn’t crowded, which was nice. Went on some of the rides twice. The wedlings got the All You Can Eat deal again. Looked at animals. A bird pooped on Alisa as she walked into the bird aviary. My favorite was the Kangaroos. I got to pet them. The day was overcasted which made it nice!
Tuesday April 8th, it was a bit chilly this morning as we caught the shuttle bus to Discovery Cove. We should’ve worn warmer clothing, and it was raining. We slowly ate breakfast under the pavilion. Dad went and got all of us a towel each to keep warm. We stayed under the pavilion till the rain stopped. Then went and got our lockers and towels and a spot, which ended up in the same area as before. The weather eventually got better and we were able to sun and swim. We didn’t go into the Reef area this time, we stayed in the Lazy Rivers, because it was rainy and cold in the morning. We had hot cocoa in the warm pool area. I enjoyed eating the Margarita pizza, shrimp ceviche, steak. Took some cookies home with us. The kids wanted to leave before it closed and we were able to catch the 430pm. We rested a bit and then caught Lyfts/Uber to ‘Disney Springs’. Wedlings and Jaxon shopped in their favorite store, ‘Uniqlo’ - a Japanese store, they had nice comfortable clothing, but too expensive. We walked around and got dinner. Jaxon got poke, Dad got some fried chicken. I got some expensive beef ramen, and Dad a Korean Corn dog, they both were meh!
Wednesday April 9th, we woke up early to catch our flight to Denver. We had a very loooong layover there, 6 ½ hours long. We got some more sandwiches to eat, they were too spicy for Dad and didn’t taste the same from the ones we ate on the way to Orlando. Jaxon got Dad a grilled cheese sandwich. I watched my Cdramas/kdramas. And Dad and I went for a walk around the airport. Aunty Heather picked us up at the Salt Lake Airport and Mina and Tane drove home in their car. When we got home we discovered Kiko had pooped on the floor and on the shower floor and he had no water in his water machine, sad!
Talofa Sis!
Florida was so fun! Tane and I shared a room with Tyrell and Alisa. We stayed on the sofa Bed while they had the room lol. My Favorite was probably going to Busch Gardens because the Rollercoasters were so fun and I also loved seeing the animals. It made me feel like a kid again and seeing the animals made my childhood passions come up again of wanting to be a wildlife conservationalist Or biologist or something haha. Tane had fun on the trip! We ate a looot of course. Seaworld had a food festival going on where you can try a food item from around the world. It was a hit or miss. The best food was from Brazil, it was steak and beans. The steak was so tender. And lamb ribs from the polynesian market. We ate Korean food a lot by ordering it from Uber eats. Also, our feet would hurt at the end of each day so we'd rest them in the hot tub afterwards. It was so much fun and can't wait to go on another trip. I have tons of photoshoots this week. Almost one everyday so I'll be editing nonstop. my Favorite talk from conference Is Your Repentance Doesn’t Burden Jesus Christ; It Brightens His Joy By Sister Tamara W. Runia. Let me know what you think of it!
Love you heaps♡♡♡
Mina and Tane
4/20/25
Hi Sister Wihongi,
Last week was back to normal stuff. The weather had cooled off but is now warming again. The flower bulbs we planted last spring along the front path have all sprouted into yellow daffodils and white and purple tulips. We went out to eat on Friday at the Vietnamese Rollz place. It was yum. Mum and I went to the temple before that at Jordan River to do sealings. I also made some granola. We also got Jaxon a new air conditioner that goes in his small window and a new ceiling light that has a fan in it and led lights that change colors. We took down the bunk bed in his room Saturday. Sunday was a nice 1 hour Easter church service for sacrament. I felt the spirit during the music. And you know what we did for dinner. Only Uncle Shaun’s and Auntie Tania’s families didn’t show. Uncle Sreeve and Auntie Ryan are staying in Scott’s tiny home for now until they get a place to stay. I’ll share what I wrote to Kage as it applies to you too. I'm proud of the great work you are doing for the Lord. This is His true church and the people need to hear this message and receive His ordinances. Keep it up, stay strong and faithful. Even when we know the Lord is helping us we may feel inadequate or weak, but that's ok, trust in His many promises like in D&C 35:13-15.
"13 Wherefore, I call upon the weak things of the world, those who are unlearned and despised, to thresh the nations by the power of my Spirit;
14 And their arm shall be my arm, and I will be their shield and their buckler; and I will gird up their loins, and they shall fight manfully for me; and their enemies shall be under their feet; and I will let fall the sword in their behalf, and by the fire of mine indignation will I preserve them.
15 And the poor and the meek shall have the gospel preached unto them, and they shall be looking forth for the time of my coming, for it is nigh at hand."
Here’s more scriptures with awesome promises to the Lord’s servants doing his work and attributes his servants should have that we read in Come Follow Me today. D&C 38:7, 15, 24-25, 27, 33, 41-42.
Love you so much,
Dad and Mum
Hello Sister Wihongi,
Happy Easters, Alisa and I made guava cake and mango sago for the Easter get together at aunty's. There was a lot of good food. We did the Easter hunt for only like 4 kids, and there was sooo many eggs. Serinas baby is so cute, super chill and has the biggest anime eyes. We visited grandma's grave before the party. I went sparring for the first time this year at my boxing gym. I enjoy it a lot. Alisa and I are going to go see the king of kings movie today, it looks good and is about Jesus. We also went to IKEA today just to look around with alisa’s sister. Anyways, I hope you are doing well stay strong! We love you. Tyrell and Alisa
Hi Leila, sorry I haven't been writing my emails, I keep on forgetting. Everyone else should've probably been explaining the good stuff though, like the vacation in Florida a bit ago. Everything's been pretty neutral. Tausala started up and I am so rusty and out of tune 😬. Especially with solos, I am not very creative while doing solos. Mistborn is such a good book, Leila! I love it 😍. You should read it when you get back and I'll continue to read the scriptures while also sometimes reading Mistborn. I'm also trying to learn how to do the double poi. I now know how to get into the butterfly with one hand (my right), and I can kind of do it with my left hand (on rare occurrence and a lot of trying), but whenever I try to do both hands at the same time it feels like my eyes are going reverse cross-eyed like Pennywise. I've been nominated in Taylorsville by some of my friends to do the ice bucket challenge, so I'll also have to do that. I'm not sure I'll do it, but I want to and I have to film myself. POP is gonna do a little dance and teach the special kids at the special needs school next to Tville, but I've opted out because I'd be useless since everyone else seemed to be doing something/knew what they were doing while I was clueless. I'd also miss my English class and I already missed it to take the Aspire+ math test, so I couldn't do that since I have to take in class notes in my English class and we're starting to read Romeo and Juliet.
That's it. Bye, love you. - Erana
4/29/2025
Talofa Sis.Wihongi,
Not much happened this week. For mutual we had combined YW activity which was swimming inside at the Murray Rec. Their inside pool was small. Dad and I went and did sealings at the Jordan River Temple. And then Dad took forever deciding where to go eat out. I was getting ‘hangry’ with him! We ate at Apollo Burger. Saturday, just slept in and the next morning we were supposed to help with the Ward Service day but we forgot about it. We did our chores and trying to dejunk the house, spring cleaning lol. Baby and I went to the DI and I got a black dress, and baby got a cute comfy cream onesie outfit. We also got a treat (smoothie, dragon blood) drinks and ‘You&I’. Love you! Mum & Dad xxx
Hi Sister Wihongi,
Lately I've been really stressed with my calling last week and photoshoots. I had so many photoshoots and people asking for their photos a week later when I told them it'll take 2-3 weeks to be done editing -_- and then it was stake conference Saturday and Sunday so I had to help prepare a saturday lunch for the area seventy and stake president who came to speak at our stake conference. Was there at 11am and the lunch was supposed to be at 1pm but no one came -_- and then I just stayed Till the leadership meeting at 4pm and didn't Come home till 6:30pm. I was annoyed because we prepared this food all day but the stake council didn't end up eating it till after the leadership meeting at 4pm. It wasted a lot of time that I could have been editing photos. Then on sunday, I edited photos aaalll day right up until stake conference at 2pm, had to rush there. And apparently My president texted me that morning saying that she wanted me to come super early to take pictures of the choir practicing and post photos on the stake page for stake conference but I didn't see her text until We were sitting In the congregation during stake conference. She texted me saying “Are you mad or upset with me?” And I'm like “No?” And then I realized she texted me earlier to come take photos but I didn't see it because I was too busy editing and catching up on delivering galleries to people since a lot of time was wasted on Saturday. Anyways, I told her that and everything is okay now but felt a little bad because she might think I'm not “magnifying my calling”. Oh well, we had a stake presidency dinner after stake conference that was delicious. Garlic shrimp, bulgogi beef, mac salad, lupulu, taro, and yummy mango otais. Yesterday I ended up breaking down to Tane and crying a lot coz I am exhausted with everyone's expectations with my calling and photos, and I haven't been able to go to the gym or be active this past week because I just wake up>come home>eat> edit photos>shower>go to sleep>repeat. I feel like I'm falling short in every aspect of my life and yet I can't catch a break and have time to myself. Tane comforted me of course. I just need to not overbook myself with photoshoots and take it slow, and also raise my prices again.Anyways, hope all is well with you and that this next week will be a better week for both of us! Remember To have fun and recognize the tender mercies God gives us♡
Alofa Atu
Mina and Tane
Hello Sister Wihongi,
For Sunday Dinner it was just me, Alisa, and erana. We left early because Alisas ward has been doing home evening activity for the young adults so we decided to show up to it for once. Alisa and i went for a nice run outside one day, other than that nothing exciting or new other than school and work. Hope you are doing well and loving the mission. We miss and love you. Alisa and Tyrell.
