Laie Hawaii Temple Cultural Celebration

The Laie Hawaii Temple recently had major remodeling done to it. It closed for two years and is finally operational again. To celebrate it's reopening, all the youth from the islands of Oahu and Kauai created a Cultural Celebration and performed for the Prophet.

The celebration was divided into sections: early Hawaiian culture, immigration, Joseph F. Smith, temple construction, and World War II (I think there were a couple more but I don't remember them all). I wanted to share some of the more interesting and fun sections of the performance. This first clip was showing the early Hawaiian culture through dance.



This next dance was showing the importance of the immigrants brought to Hawaii to work in the fields. The Chinese were the earliest and most numerous; however, other immigrants included Filipinos and Portuguese. This group includes the kids from our Ward.



This last clip was from the section of building the temple.