Happy Birthday Jayjay!

13 years already has come and gone so fast that I'm shocked you are getting older and more beautiful by the minute. Sweetie, I'm so happy to be your aunty and to know how much you are special to me and uncle Mika. I pray that you will continue to stay close to the Lord as he will bless your life through Faith and diligence. Stay true to yourself and never let the things of the world change who you are. I love you sweetie and I'm thankful the Lord bless you to continue to live another year and to learn each day. Study well in school and in church. You will be blessed by your dedication and knowledge in the future. Have a wonderful day and have fun!

Love always,

Aunty Jay

Pineapple Up side down cupcake and Mango cream Cup cake

Fresh fruits

Yes, yes, yes! Another shipment of amazing goodies from MTN OPS! Thanks Dad for ordering me more Weight loss and healthy products from a local based company here in Utah. I'm stoked up for the next few months and its gonna be great. My goal is to slim down a bit before I go back home to Hawaii in October. heheh I'm progressively trimming down but I'm loosing weight on my own time and pace. And I love it. So far I've lost 30 pounds and I have so much energy than before. If you want to know more about this company and their products, go and check out their website at MTNOPS. I'm not sponsored by MTN OPS but my Dad and I love their products and it helped us both better our health. Great investment and life rewarding results!

One of the nice things that I do enjoy doing on a daily basis is to meet new people. Today I was able to meet my husband's family friend from Minnesota. Julie knew the family for years and still visit the family whenever she's in town.She's really close to his older siblings and knew my husband when he was a little boy. We gathered together at Chuck-a-Rama in Lehi and met up with a few other family members. Hearing the stories of how she meet the family was pretty cool. Laughing and having a good time is always the highlight of my day. After eating we all just hangout outside of the restaurant and talked for another hour. Hey when you have ton of stories to tell, sitting down for an hour is usually not enough! It was a nice pleasure to get to know her for that short period of time, but I can see why my in laws still have friends from all walks of life...because they know how to be real, fun, friendly and understandable to everyone. Have a safe trip back home Julie!

Summer has begun and the heat is getting REAL! This week Sister Cluff and I have been trying to stay out of the sun as much as we can. We don't have AC in our apartment so its been kinda a struggle staying cool. We love the evenings like after 6pm because that is when everyone comes outside because its cooler. We have met soooo many people this week! Its been crazy! 

MIRACLE 

It was about 90 degrees outside in the afternoon when Sister Cluff and I decided to ride our bikes to go visit a less active member named Chelsea. We were dying in the heat. We finally made it to her house and she wasn't there. :( But her sprinklers were on so we decided to go play in them to cool off. After a while we decided to head back out on our bikes and then Chelsea drove up into her drive way! We were able to see her and we set up another time to come back! It was a miracle! 

BERTHA

We went to try a potenial investigator who has been on our records forever. Her name is Samantha. She wasn't home but her family was and they let us in and gave us water. We talked to Samantha's mother for a while. Her name is Bertha and she is super nice. Bertha is from Mexico and recently moved in with her daughter. She told us that she was born and raised Catholic but then decided to search for another church. She really liked the Jehovah Witnesses but then she said they were wierd. So she decided to search for another church. She decided one day to attend a Mormon church and really like it but she wished there was more spanish people. We then were able to tell her that there is actually a Spanish Ward just down the street from her! She was excited and kept asking us more questions about our church. She asked us if we could come back to teach her and she will teach us spanish. It was really cool. We are excited to teach her and we are also excited to learn spanish! 

JOHN

We met John as he was fixing his boat in front of his house. He's probably in his 60's. We asked him if we could help but he said no and that Its keeping his mind off of things. We talked for a while about fishing and then all of a sudden he breaks down in tears. He tells us that his best friend recently passed away and that he's been trying not to think about it. He kept crying and then he started walking away from us and went into his house. We felt so bad for him and wanted to share the message of the Plan of salvation with him. We hope to go by his house again and share it with him. 

Aw shucks I am out of time to write but so much more has happened this week! I am grateful for all the people that I've met! There are a lot of interesting people. But I love being a missionary and I love this gospel! I hope you all have a great week! 

Love Sister Tupuola

How funny it is when you live down the street from a restaurant that has great food and reviews and I have never been there. I've passed this place every day and never seem to cross my mind to even check it out. At first I thought this restaurant was an Indian style or Middle eastern because of the exterior design. But its a simple family owned home cooked meal and its very affordable. My sister in law Tiare told us that they had the best scones. Because i have a major sweet tooth and I really do love pastries, i totally wanted to get it. My husband and I got their yummy breakfast meal an it came out in big portions. The bacon was big and think, which I do like. lol What comes with their american meal was 2 slabs or thick bacon, country potatoes and 2 eggs. We also got 2 scone which were BIG! it was the size of a dinner plate. Our meal came up to $21.00 and we had water with it so it was a good inexpensive meal! The service was friendly and kind. Clean environment and had that old 1970's feel. If you're in South Salt Lake near 3300 south and 200 east, stop by and grab a good hardy meal at Amber's restaurant. Its totally worth visiting!!
Amber Restaurant
Address: 217 3300 S, South Salt Lake, UT 84115

Hours: 

Hi Fam! This week was sooo good! so much has happened but I don't have time to write it all! 

Lake Tahoe! 

I finally got to see Lake Tahoe! Everyone talks about how gorgeous it is so Sister Cluff and I decided to go hiking on Pday to the top of the mountain in our area, and we got to see it! And yes, its as pretty as everyone says it is! We went with some of the members in our ward. They are awesome! 

Exchanges! 

I got to go on exchanges with Sister Ellis who is currently serving in Reno. We had so much fun and witnessed a fire that broke out near Carson City. Here comes the fires! We talked to a lot of people. 

Walker Branch Miracle!

Sister Cluff and I got spend the night at a members home in the Walker Branch area in California. It was super fun! We are hardly in that area because of miles so we decided to go spend 2 full days there. We met so many people and tons of potential investigators who said we could come back! There was tons of hills that we had to bike. There was this one hill which was super steep. We hesitated to go up it but we decided to just go. We had a few people that we needed to see up the hill and we were determined to see them. Bad idea,,As I was biking my chains to my bike broke. But I didn't let that stop me from getting to the top. I just walked the rest of the way and prayed for the lord to heal my bike. we finally made it on the top! both of the people that we planned to go visit weren't home so we decided to head back down the hill. But then we met a guy on the street named Paris. He was super nice and he fixed my bike for me! He wasn't too interested but we had a good conversation. He said we were crazy for biking up the hill in dresses in 90 degree weather. haha I truly believe we were meant to go up that hill at that time just to meet that guy. He didn't know much about the mormons so we were able to plant the seed! 

We are ready to head out to Las Vegas than to Anaheim for the Jets show. I got all my snacks, drinks, pillow and blanket ready for a long and fun road trip. Here we go!!!

Playing guess the music title and artist using Spotify...it was kind of hilarious trying to figure out the names of the songs!

Breakfast in Bed!

Liz, Eddie and Mo doing a quick rehearsal before the show

Da Fam Bam Crew about to watch the The Jets Show!

It was a full house tonight!!

Everyone lighting up the stadium as Liz performs "Make It Real"...so awesome to see her perform!

Chilling after the show about to get some grub!

watching their tonight performance...gotta make sure everything looks and sounds good.

Visiting Kat's boys in Vegas...its been too long since we saw them.