The Church in Waimea

Good Afternoon Sisters and Brothers.I got home a few days ago and my daughter, Katie Benioni, Juanita and Patoa's daughter-in-law, who is my daughter, said, "Mom you have to be at the chapel -it's a quarter till two on Monday.""Okay, what's happening?""We have some people coming from Laie, and they want to know the history of Waimea.And I said, "well I really don't know that much."And she said, "Well go Mom."And so she called me about 12:30 in the afternoon and she called, and I was out weed whacking the grass in my yard.And she said, "Mom, go.Mom -you go."And so here I am.And Sister Keliikoa_thinks I can tell you the history of Waimea.All I can tell you is that my family on my mothers side--my great grandmother joined the church about 1850ish, probably right after the missionaries got here.Probably the late 1850's.She was the first member of the church.And then my grandfather, John Kaapuni, was a member of the church.In the cornerstone of this chapel is his Book of Mormon in Hawaiian.It came from the old chapel at the other place, the first chapel, and then it was put in the second chapel there, and now it's in the third chapel here.And so that's the history of where the gospel started in my family.My grandchildren are now being baptized and that gives us about six generations of the church in our family.What I remember is that this branch started with a man named, John Kaue who my mother said was approximately the first branch president of the branch here in Waimea.And if you go straight up the hill back here that was Brother John Kaue's home.So it's almost ironic that we're in his backyard.This chapel is--my mother told us stories about when she was a little girl.My grandfather was a member and my grandmother was a staunch Catholic and so as I went to do our research on our family I found that my mother and all of her brothers and sisters, and there were approximately thirteen of them, were all illegitimate, according to the Catholic Church.But at least there were records of who they were and about approximately when they were born.So it verified also the materials that you find in the Board of Health.But she remembered as a child because her mother died when she was two years old, being raised by the Lindsey family of this area.And many of them I guess went to church.And so she remembers as a little girl riding horseback to go and do visiting teaching in the area, including going all the way down to Puako (East Coast) sometime with some of the sisters as they went.And she always credits the church for having taught her homemaking skills that she had to learn because she was being raised by a father and mostly boys.So anyway, she became inactive in the church when she married my father because they moved twelve miles up to Waikii, and in those days it was hard to come down here twelve miles to church.And my father was Catholic.So as we were growing up, the missionaries came to Waikii.They would walk or they would come up on horseback with Brother Allen Lindsey.He would bring them up on horseback.And they would hold family meetings at our house.

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