A few days ago the zone leaders had asked us to help fix a breakfast for the sister missionaries and we went ahead with the plan, except we fed them from our kitchen and not the stake center. The Visitors' Center was closed until the evacuation warning was lifted. All the highways were closed on all the islands and everyone living in the tsunami zone were asked to move to higher ground.
The person under the blue and white umbrella is Bruce Tuttle, the temple's AV specialist. The other picture shows some of the folks hanging out on Temple Hill.
The six elders in our zone had no place to go so we offered our "pad" to them. Here they are doing their morning personal study. Left to right: Elders Moncur, Stanger, Wise, Robertson, Laufiso and Wooten. Later Donna fed them pasta-fruity salad and chocolate cake for lunch.
It's now 1:30 pm and it appears the tsunami was mild, with swells around 3 feet; however, the evacuation requirement has not been lifted, so the VC is still closed and everyone is just "hanging out" like these two sister missionaries, Sister Kafusi from Tonga, and Sister Ochiai from Japan.
It's now 1:30 pm and it appears the tsunami was mild, with swells around 3 feet; however, the evacuation requirement has not been lifted, so the VC is still closed and everyone is just "hanging out" like these two sister missionaries, Sister Kafusi from Tonga, and Sister Ochiai from Japan.