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04/23/17 Hawaii - Day Three - Church in Hanalei Branch

Birds on the patio

On Sunday morning we got up and went to Hanalei Branch for church.  They have a nice building just a few miles from our place.  Andy hadn't brought Sunday clothes so we decided to both go in shorts and t-shirts...really weird to go to church not all dressed up!!!  On the bright side we weren't the only ones not dressed up!

The Branch had only about 40 members and about 150 people came in total.  (Seems like that would be hard to put on church every week for a bunch of strangers!)

They didn't have a piano player -- a lady out of the audience volunteered.  I talked to one of the sister's and she said they didn't have a RS president or a Primary president.  There were 26 sisters in RS and only 6 of them were from the branch...the rest were visitors.  Crazy!  

The talks were excellent and we really enjoyed our visit.  And yes, they do say ALOHA, before every talk!

We wanted to keep the Sabbath day holy so we bought dinner at Walmart Friday evening and hung around the condo.  We enjoyed watching the birds fight over our left-overs. 


Birds were very aggressive when  we threw bread out to them. 


The birds loved our back patio.







Looks like the birds had a spat...not talking to each other. 

Aren't they cute?!








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