Elders Quorum today -- 9/18/11

Announcements

• Endowments: Two members of the quorum, Gene Tamashiro and John Teves (with his wife Melinda) received their  endowments this week at the Laie Temple.  Congratulations to them.
• Activities:  Upcoming activities: Filipino Food Fest @ Thelma's Restaurant in Waipahu on October 8 Saturday.  We will meet at 10:15 a.m. on Mokulele Drive by the Parkway Rec Center and then carpool from there. Makapu'u Lighthouse See-the-Sun-Rise Family Hike on October 29 Saturday.  Meeting time is 5:15 a.m. at the Makapu'u Lighthouse parking area along Kalanianaole Hwy.  We will eat breakfast at the top and watch the sun rise.
• Service projects:  We are applying have applied and been accepted to the Adopt-a-Highway program (trash pick-up) for the section of Kahekili Highway from Haiku Road to Kaneohe Bay Drive. We have committed to four trash-pick-up outings per year for the next two years. The date of our first service outing is TBA.  Other projects we may do include Kawa'ewa'e Heiau (brush clean-up), Ho'omaluhia Gardens (adopt-a-park). and help-our-neighbors yard cleanup.
• Home visits via Splits with Missionaries (Wednesday evenings, ongoing).  Next split date will be 9/21 Wed.  (Kanoa Kanahele and Jershon Laimana).
• Home Teaching:  New assignments announced.  See updated Home Teaching Assignment List. Remember to complete your HT assignment and report to your district leader by the end of the month.  Mahalo!

Lesson today:
Today's lesson was based on Chapter 41: The Postmortal Spirit World.  Questions that were addressed and answered in the lesson included:

• What happens to us after we die? [Alma 41:11]   
• Where is the postmortal spirit world? ["...not far away."] 
• What is the nature of our Spirits?  [Ether 3:16 and Alma 34:34] 
• What are the conditions in the Spirit World? [1 Nephi 15: 28-30] 
• What happens in Paradise? [D&C 138:30]   
• What happens in Spirit Prison? [1 Peter 3:18-20]