Visit from the 70

Mahalo for sending all that da kine (da kine can mean anything you want it to...seriously...anything...just fyi).  Much appreciated!  I had quite an interesting week...Elder Wilson of the 70 came for mission tour!  He spoke to us in the MTC and he had such good trainings...He was the one that spoke in conference, the funny one when he said he can tell his wife what to do since he has the priesthood haha...

While on exchanges with Elder Duck we did Insanity for morning exercises!  It was awesome!  Later on we visited with a less active member...he told us to sit down and he stood for the lesson...randomly, in the middle of the lesson, he just starts practicing Kempo Karate, kicking backwards, kneeing the air and throwing punches...it was so funny!  Then he starts losing his balance and falls over and grabs my leg for balance.  Awkward.  After that lesson Elder Duck told me I should've stood up and read 1 Nephi 17:48 to him.  (I think that's the right verse)  read it right now...another one that applies to it is Mosiah 13:3 that I read last night.  

While tracting the other day we knocked on this guys door. He said he wasn't interested in talking to us...after a minute or 2 he started opening up.  He said he was a convert, "fell in love with the elders who taught him".  He was offended at Sacrament meeting once and never came back.  He told us part of one scripture...that we need to "become Christ..."  We said "oh yeah, Christlike?" he said "no, Jesus taught everyone to become him, which is what I did...I'm Jesus Christ"...didn't even take 3 months for find a false Christ...That was a pretty crazy 30 minute lesson haha...

Mahalo for the birthday letter and everything you do for me!  I greatly appreciate it...tell everyone mahalo that sent me something...not sure if i'll have time to write them today...Pday's on the big island are hard for me to write letters since I'm driving everywhere...if I don't write anyone back it's cuz we're busy...we haven't even been shopping for 2 weeks...that's how busy it is... I don't have any time to write...Pday lasts only 8 hours...which I'm not sure why it's called pday...it's from 10-6...and we try to do activities during those few hours...which leaves us no time to write anything...but I try my best...I hope to see my Asylum get here before transfers!!  they're next week!  These 6 weeks flew by!  I hope I stay in Honoka'a!  This place is amazing!  1 baptism coming up...but after that we have nothing...we really don't have any solid investigators...it's small kine depressing....anyway enjoy that picture of the Big Island missionaries with President and Sister Dalton and Elder Wilson and his wife!  bye

Hope you have a good week!  Aloha!  

Baptism on Cinco de Mayo

Here's some cool stuff that happened...umm...1 more baptized!  so 1 each month I've been out!  Ha'o in March, Denn in April, and Anna Aurello May 5th!  Cinco De Mayo!  We all wore fake mustaches and ponchos...but not really! Aloha!

Read the last chapter in Alma.  About the isles of the sea, also read 2 Nephi 10:20 Is that Hawaii or what?  And also read 2 Nephi 12:10.  So awesome...if you look carefully it spells "UTAH" vertically with a few words, starting with "mountains".  I almost flipped when I saw it.  We did helping hands Saturday, but ironically enough it didn't help my hands.  We pulled elephant grass...you might wonder why it's called that...here's the answer, it's huge.  It is as thick as the face of a quarter and grows to about 15 feet...I cut up my hands so good...I couldn't stop bleeding in the first 5 minutes under my middle finger nail...I felt so lazy standing around holding my finger watching everyone else work...we did service at the elementary school clearing out a "shady" area.

The jumping picture is of me and Elder Rokete.  He's the funniest Elder I've ever met.  I've had lots of good times with him!  I have some videos of him and I singing songs in the car.  I'll try to send them but they're too big to fit in the email...I'll figure out a way don't worry...no...I'm with the same companion...I have 3 weeks left with him.  I did get the package...or present as they call it in pidgin...thank you so much!  I now have 2 resistance bands and probably shouldn't gain any more weight!  I'm back down to 153!

GOOD STUFF!  you get to call me on Mother's day/my birthday!  Okay, so I'm having Father call at 1...so you both get 20 minutes...I hope that's okay.  So if you would...call me at 1 p.m. HAWAII time!  not your time, I'll be worshiping at church...probably teaching a class...no need interrupt that...so 1 p.m. hawaii time...not your time...get it got it? good!  haha.  Well next 2 saturdays are filled with 2 more baptisms...hopefully...1 is tentative...we're working on making it a permanent date!  Have a  good week!  Love you!  Miss you!  7 minutes to email 7 people...oh jeeez........K BYE!!!!

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