“A week in the life of a Senior
Missionary”
We held our
“Scripture Class at Kahanna Valley on Wednesday. The Children from the Valley did not come, however seven
children 5 of whom were recently baptized in July. They are from the Tongan family Dad & Mom and 4 of the 6
children who were part of the record 28 in the month of July. They are really cute, just learning the
gospel so our lesson on the creation and Adam & Eve turned out perfect for
them. They are so eager to learn
and so excited when we talk about something they already know. Marsha got bitten by a mosquito and it
was itching so she started to scratch it.
She ask they why they didn’t get bitten and one of the young men said
“Because we are Tongan” we laughed and told him I was going to become Tongan
then. We have a class scheduled
for next Wednesday and invited them to come if they are there visiting.
Thursday
evening we met with all of the Elder and Sister Missionaries in our zone and
President and Sister Dalton took everyone to the Polynesian Culture
Center. For dinner and the
program “Breath of Life” because the zone reached double their goal of 14. Twenty eight baptisms in a month is
going to be hard to beat. Most of the people in the area have been contacted
many times by missionaries. New
people keep coming in though.
Friday we visited a young lady 21 yrs.
old, has an adorable baby boy, lives with her boyfriend & her dad and the
boyfriends dad. Pretty common here
for several generations living in the same house to be able to afford
rent. She feels good about the
gospel but can’t yet make a dicision to get married or ask her boyfriend to
move out. We showed her a video
based on a talk by Jeffery R. Holland titled “Motherhood an eternal partnership
with God” We plan to visit her
again on Monday.
Saturday
after cleaning the apartment and car we went to the beach, being the water love
Dennis is, he sat in the car and read, and I on the other hand went in the
water and sat on the beach to watch the surfers. It is a NICE place to serve.
Sunday we
are at our three wards & a ward council meeting for the Hauula 2nd.
Ward. Sundays we are in church all
day attending meetings and visiting with the members Marsha does that very well
that is “visiting”. We are also
fasting with the zone. They have
set a goal of 20 baptisms for August. They come up with a planner cover each
month and August is “Money in the Bank”, Dennis made a planner cover for them.
The Spirit
is strong here in Hawaii. The Elders and Sisters work so hard and have an
amazing presents the local people have a reverence for the missionaries, we are truly blessed to be here.
To our
family in the Rainbow with ward – with your triple digit temperatures you would
love this chapel “ice box” its set at 64 degrees even I freeze out and I can
take a lot of cold .
Will update
more news later my parting words now are “Good Choice Romney”
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| This is the 21 year old sister (the one with the new baby) and her boyfriend. They did some service at her house. |
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