Dear Family
This has been a good week. I picked my new companion up from
the Kona Airport Wednesday morning at 9AM. His name is Elder Richards from L.A.
California. Hes super cool, we get along great, i think were gonna have a lot
of fun together this coming transfer. We spent most of that day unpacking his
stuff, and visiting our members and investigators. Most of this week has been
spent visiting members and investigators, to introduce my new companion to
them.
Last Monday or last P-Day, we had a zone barbeque at Spencer's Beach Park. We all chipped in and brought food to make hamburgers and
hotdogs and other food. So we grilled those up and ate them. Then we played
games. This beach park has a concrete volleyball court, and basketball court
right in the middle of the beach. So the court was like 100 feet away from the
water. It was fun to play with such a great scenic background around me, plus
having the cool ocean breeze to keep us cool. It was really fun to have a party
together before our zone split up on Wednesday for transfers.
On Sunday we had church at 9AM the normal time, and we had
great speakers in sacrament meeting. After church we visited a Girl named
Janae. We got a call from a member to give Janae's Mother Julie a blessing. The
whole family is non members. We knocked on the door and talked to her for a
minute just saying hi and talking, she told us they were having a family party.
Then a Big Old man comes out the front door, stepping in front of her, and interrupting her and said "Hi I'm Pastor Frank." We nicely introduce
ourselves and tell him were looking for Julie. He told us she was chatting
inside, because they were having a party. Then he told us "Isn't Sunday
supposed to be a day of rest? I'm a Pastor and I rest on Sunday, and spent time
with my family. Why are you working today?" Then Elder Richards said
"that were full time servants of the Lord," then he tells us
again that he is a Pastor and even Pastors rest on Sunday so we should too. He
was being contentious and trying to start an argument, and it felt like he
was trying to defend his territory. So i nicely tell him that "its great
that he is spending time with his family on Sunday, and we will let him get
back to his party." Then i thanked him for his time, and said bye. It was
a funny experience.
Sunday night we headed back to the church at 6pm for a
Fireside. A Church Choir from Laie on Oahu (Oahu is right next to BYU - Hawaii,
and where the temple is) was going to be singing for us, along with a few short
talks. The choir was amazing, they sung all of the Hymns in Hawaiian, and it
was beautiful, i felt the spirit there so strongly! Then we had a refreshments
after. and it was funny i was expecting some light snacks and dessert like
white people would have for refreshments. But nope, in Hawaii refreshments are a
full course meal, so that was nice because our dinner canceled on us that
night, so we had plenty to eat.
On Friday we found a part member family. The wife is a
member, the husband is not. She has two 9 year old twin daughters, that she
really wants them to be baptized. So we taught them the Restoration on Friday,
and set a date for their baptism on March 30. Since they are 9 years old or
older, they are a convert baptism, even though they are so young. I'm so
grateful for the miracle to be able to find them. She just drove into the
church parking lot, saw the missionaries, and asked for a blessing for her and
her daughters, then after that she said she really wanted to have to 2
daughters baptized. What a great blessing from Heavenly Father.
Elder Richards last area was in Honolulu where he taught
only Chuukese people. Chuuk is a small island in the Micronesia
Islands, which is in the South Pacific., Elder Richards was in that
Chuukese ward for 6 months, and so he learned the Chuukese language. So he has
been really wanting to find some Chuukese people, because most the
investigators we work with are Marshalese. So we searched and searched, and
finally found some for him, that made him very happy!
Well thanks for the letter from home, my time is short and
thats all i can think of. I love you all!
Love Elder Morgan James Durocher
PS: Thanks for the book, I'm already halfway through # 3
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