July's events

Sunday July 1, 2013 Barry and Nanci Wishart who have been good friends went home.  They were serving in the Hauula 6^th. (Tongan) Ward.  They went home a month early because of his health. We miss visiting with them since they were the only other MLS missionaries on this side of the island we had the work in common. Many of the CES & PCC Senior Couple Missionaries that we became friends with have gone home. More are coming every week, most of them will be serving at the PCC.

Monday, July 2, 2013 We invited some of the Sister Missionaries over for breakfast this morning.  Two of them Sister Eaton & Sister Richardson from Russia were adopted by LDS families.  Sister Richardson was the room mate of our former Bishop Patterson’s daughter at BYU Idaho.  It was fun to have them over and hear the conversion stories from the Russian Sisters.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 Our classes in Kahana are going well.  We are almost finished with the Book of Mormon. We did a story about our country, flag & pioneers.  We then did a graphic making images of fireworks exploding and pasting them on black paper so that it look like they were exploding in the dark.

Thursday, July 4, 2013 we spent the late afternoon with the Young Elders & Sisters.  We took our little barbeque and did hot dogs & roasted marshmallows.  They played capture the flag, Bocce Ball and of course the Elders brought water balloons already filled with water. They all had fun getting wet.  We came home early, this year there were no fireworks in the neighborhood like last year.

Saturday, July 6, 2013 We met our new mission President and his wife each of the Laie Mission Districts met with him to give a short bio and he and his wife did also.  President Stephen Warner is from Salt Lake City, they will do well.  Being mission president is a big job.  Marsha had a dream that President Warner asked us to go home early because we were not spiritual enough.  He didn’t say anything Saturday when we met him so I guess we are safe for now. HaHa.

Sunday, July 7, 2013 A few weeks ago our district decided they wanted to go tracting- mainly because the sisters had never done it.  We too went, we were not good at tracting – that was hard - to knock on doors and ask people to hear a message.  We found one lady that would let the elders come the next Friday that was the day she would be home.  The tried and she was not home.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Transfer day one Elder went home and three others were transferred to other areas.  One of the new Elders is from Reno, Elder Hansen so there are three Nevadans in our zone now.

Friday, July 19, 2013 We taught our first lesson to Nick Suliafu who is originally from Tonga.  His girlfriend is Tongan and a returned missionary, she brought him to the meeting.  He requested that older missionaries teach him so we are combining with the young Elders in the girlfriends ward to teach him.  He is divorced, in his 40’s and has children who have served missions and his ex-wife is a member but he has never felt the spirit strong enough to be baptized. He knows some things about the gospel we have an appointment with him next Friday.  We are meeting at the Temple Visitors Center which is a great place to bring an investigator.

Monday, 7/22/2013 Preparation Day,  Attended Family Home Evening at President Warner’s (Mission Home) We have a new Military Couple.  Nice evening.  President and Sister Warner will be wonderful.  They want to emphasis will be baptisms and a strong emphasis on teaching the young elders &sisters to be great husbands, wives and leaders.  This will be great for them.

Tuesday, 7-23-2013 Marsha’s sister Cathy’s birthday, She had a nice (long) visit with her on the phone. She and Leonard have moved to St. George, they seem to like it so far.

We attended the BHU-H devotional, always nice and always have good messages.  We went to the Oceanside Assisted living place but found none or the members’ home.

Wednesday, 7/24/2013 Pioneer Day, We had Zone meeting in the morning, met all the new Elders & Sisters.  We really enjoy our association with them, we are amazed at how much they want to teach the Gospel and follow the mission rules.

We went to Kahana in the afternoon for our class.  We picked up Sister McKinney and Sister Eaton to go with us and the threesome Elders assigned to our 2^nd. Ward came too.  We had a lesson on Pioneers & played pioneer games for an activity after the lesson.  Marsha invited the Beehive advisor and the Relief Society president to bring some of their small children. There were ten children (4 from the members) and three new young girls (11, 10, & 8 years old) who are  not members and two boys ( 7 & 5) all from Kahana.  We may not get the adults active but the children are receptive to the spirit of the Gospel.

After class we had our weekly missionary correlation meeting with the Samoan Ward Mission Leader and the young Elders Assigned to that ward.

Has an appointment in Kaneohe, since we were 3/4^th of the way there, we went to the  Mission office to get some items for the Missionary effort in the Samoan ward. 

Friday, 7/26/2013 We had another meeting with Nick our new Tongan investigator.  It is going well we invited him to church again and he said he would really try.

Saturday, 7/27/2013 We attended a baptism, it was a person that the Wisharts were teaching with the Tongan Ward Missionaries.  After the baptism the ward had a luncheon in one of the beach parks.  Not much Tongan food that we have acquired a taste for especially the raw fish salad they seem to always have.