Grant for Small Businesses Aloha! This information is meant for your company admin. It is meant to help your company fill in the financial gaps when you were forced to cut back or unable to work in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID.Does your business have five or more W-2 employees? If so, were you impacted at all by the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 (we all were right?) Well there’s a way you can get reimbursed MAJORLY through the ERC Program. If you haven’t already applied for it yourself, I can connect you with someone who specializes in it, get you pre-qualified and get you back the most money pe ..read more

What a way to start the new month! ‘Isi has been coughing for two days. He woke up saying that he felt sick yesterday, soIgave him some Alleve. It made him feel better, but he started coughing and it has gotten worse and worse. I did a COVID test on him which was negative. Liana came after work with a flu test and it was positive – type A. So she gave both of us medicine – mine is preventative. I am feeling quite tired so it may be the start of the flu. Both of us have been staying home for the most part. For Thanksgiving, we had ‘Isi, Emi, and Ali’i over for turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, ro ..read more

KJJC 1230 AM SLC UT Sam was just called to be a mission president – not sure where yet ..read more

Pacific Island Tales Episodes for Broadcasting on KJJC1230am SLC – Ruth Kongaika We changed the name of our Program to “Pacific Island Tales” All episodes will be found on https://grandmabloggers.wordpress.com Trailer for each episode:  https://anchor.fm/ruth09/episodes/Trailer-to-all-episodes-of-Pacific-Island-Tales-e1p2qpe October 15, 2022  – Hesikaia Fakatou SPOTIFY  https://open.spotify.com/episode/1pBOLnpBC3oXA4xZGQ5inJ?si=5e9667bed91b47ab  October 22, 2022  – Pacific Island Tales – SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/4OtX3nHQTjBEmszjj0TABv October 29, 2022 Sam ..read more

Anna Luiza Our family has had some major milestones lately. Our sister missionary, Anna Kongaika returned from her mission in Las Vegas West, Nevada. She reported her mission and shared a strong and inspirational testimony of the Gospel and of the work she had been doing for the past 18 months. What a blessing Anna is to our family. She will be attending BYU Provo this fall. Rachel Ileina Our sweet Rachel Ileina Kinikini got prepared by seeing her bishop and stake president for the purpose of submitting her application to serve a mission. Just this week she received her calling to serve in the ..read more

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The first part of our trip was spent in England and the Fakatou family had taken such good care of us. Now we were on our own and it seemed that everything went south! My mother’s family are from Denmark. Her mother is Ruth Zina Anderson and her father is Harold Christensen. Harold Christensen’s ancestors (familysearch.org) Our Danish Connection (familysearch.org) We landed in Copenhagen, Denmark late in the evening, and by then there were only two rental car offices open. Isi had been trying very hard to get in contact with Alamo because we had made a reservation and paid, but they needed his ..read more

It was with much anticipation and a bit of trepidation that I prepared for our trip to the UK and Denmark. We had previously visited Scotland and had meant to touch ground in England but because of the unexpected demise of my uncle Terry (my father’s brother) that our trip was cut short, and we had to take Dad home early. I had revealed my apprehension a few too many times, in fact, so much that it became quite a joke between my children and grandchildren. We had made sure that our living will and trust were in order and made well known in case of our untimely demise due to airplane dysfunctio ..read more

Brett and Sunie Thomas (Tomasi) We spent the end of February 2022 in Las Vegas. We own a timeshare week at Tahiti Village which is located on the south end of The Strip near the airport. We usually try to use our week every year. On our way there this time, we stayed in St. George overnight. The drive to Vegas takes about seven hours so it is good to break it up. We met up with Brett and Sunie Thomas and headed to one of our favorite restaurants, The Red Fort. They serve yummy curry and garlic naan bread and my favorite, mango yogurt drink! We had a great visit and good rest before finishing ..read more