Sister Pielstick and the Fanakenga

I've been researching the navigation systems of Polynesian navigators for the last month or so for a side project at school. It's interesting to see how little the scientists cared for what the Polynesians did. There are lists of the stars the Hawaiians used for navigating, but they are not identified in the sky. Let me tell you, it was hard to get enough information to make a decent program attached to reality.

One of the methods they used was to find a fanakenga, or a particular star that represented an island. for example the fanakenga for Hawaii is Hōkūleʻa, or the star of gladness. For Figi the star is A'a or burning brightly. What is my fanakenga? What will people remember how to get to me? Am I a person who is only interested in herself, or do I think about others? Am I the smart one, or am I the one who appears to be smart? Perhaps I am the weird one who knows esoteric information that no one cares about. Or maybe I am destined to be the missionary who writes to her converts not ever expecting a letter for herself...

I think that if I could choose my fanakenga I would want it to be faith. I want to be remembered as the faithful, the one who was willing to follow the Savior... the one who did not waver, and went forward excited for the future. That would be my fanakenga... Faith.