The Bus

We are just a few blocks from the nearest grocery store, Foodland.

Foodland=outrageously expensive.

For example, a gallon of milk is $7.

We decided to take a trip to the nearest Walmart.

The bus stop is right across the street from our house.

We met this local at the bus stop.

He answered tons of our questions & knew right away we were new BYU-H students.

Check out his tatoo of the Hawaiin Islands!

We see crazy tatoo's every day here.

When we asked him his name,

he turned around & had it tatooed on his back.

Meet Kalej.

Bus route to Walmart: 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Cost: $2.00
The prices were worth the trip!
Plus it was fun being on "The Bus" checking out the state of Hawaii.
After we were done in Walmart,
we condensed everything into less amounts of bags.
We double bagged & headed back to the bus stop.
This time the bus stop wasn't right across the street.
We felt like everyone was looking at us like we were crazy tourists, but we didn't care!

Being strategic about how to carry the 24 pack of water.

Jamie got all of her things into four bags.
Four heavy bags!


The backpack full of water bottles didn't stay on Lj's back for long.
We ended up spliting up the water bottles between our bags.
We actually got pretty creative about all of this.


Here is "The Bus"

The last 20 minutes of our bus ride, there were only about 5 passengers. We were sitting near the front of the bus & an older man a few seats behind us abruptly asked us, "How long have you girls been Mormon?" We weren't even talking about anything church related, so we were a little surprised. He looked tired & all he had with him was a garbage bag. He looked homeless. We replied, "Our whole lives!" He told us that he had always heard that Mormons are from the devil. J.Linn looked at him and in a goofy tone said, "No, no, no. Look at me, come on! Do I look like I'm from the devil!?" He thought it was funny. He told us that he went to the visitor center at the temple & met a really cute sister missionary there. He said, "I told her--I'll get baptized if you're still single!" We were laughing at him & then he said, "She just dissapeared after I said that! Just walked away!" Maybe she was a little frightened by his appearance or the way he was approaching her. He told us he stayed & watched the Jospeh Smith movie & that he was really inspired. He said he went back and watched it again & again. He said, "I never thought I would become a mormon, but I might. I might join the Mormon church!" He told us that he is homeless & can't be baptized until he has an address. He said that the missionaries are willing to help him find a job & get back on his feet. He said he has had help from a lot of other Christian churches and has heard many bad things about the Mormon church. He was cracking up as he told us, "I went back to one of those churches & told them--the Mormons are better than you! They don't persecute others. They are more Christ-like. I found out what they believe & they are not of the devil. In fact, I might be a Mormon!" In the midst of our conversation, Natalie noticed that we passed our bus stop. Luckily, we were only a stop or two past it. We got off & told the man, "The church is true!"