MaeLyn's Musings

For our 25th wedding anniversary, Steven and I took a trip to Hawaii. Here are some of the pictures we took.  While waiting at the airport for our flight. I made a little friend to make some of our pictures more interesting. At the beach in Waikiki Steven was really impressed by the huge Banyan trees.  I love how all the statues were wearing leis! The sunsets were gorgeous! One day we went up to see the temple in Laie. We visited the Polynesian Cultural Center there too, which was awesome!  This is the view from our balcony in Honolulu. That is Waikiki beach on the right. On Sunday we attended church at the tabernacle in Honolulu. It is a beautiful building and we were informed it was the last tabernacle built by the Church. Here are a couple views from the Tantalus lookout.  Our visit to Pearl Harbor was a sobering experience. After spending a few days in Oahu, we took a short flight to Kawai, where we spent the remainder of our visit. One of our favorite things abo...

(I was asked to give a talk in sacrament meeting based on a talk called “ Abide in Me, and I in You; Therefore Walk with Me ” by Elder David A. Bednar from the April 2023 General Conference. Here is my talk. The bolded bits were to help as I spoke to remind me of the general point of each paragraph so I didn't have to read it word for word.) When I was a teenager, one of the youth in our stake passed away suddenly in an accident. This was my first real experience dealing with death; he was the first person to die that I had known. I felt so many emotions: I was sad, confused, lost , wondering why something like this could happen. I struggled for days trying to come to terms with what had happened. A few years later when I was a student at BYU, I was called to be the gospel doctrine teacher in my student ward and I was scared. Most of the ward members were returned missionaries and I wasn’t and I was afraid that they all knew much more than I did and that I wouldn’t have anything t...