Durochers Ditally Dot: Morgan's 13th letter in 2013

Dearest Ohana,

This week has flown by so fast. Our week has Ward Conference, and had activities all week long. Ill tell all the Ward conference activities we had this week.

So on Wednesday the ward did a home teaching, and visiting teaching flood. So all the members in the ward met together at the church and then split up from there, visiting people from the ward. It was really awesome.

Thursday we had a Ward Luau. There was a huge turn out way more than expected, they barely had enough food for everyone, which surprised me they had enough food. There was a 100 foot long food line for like 1 hour, to get food cafeteria serving style, with people serving you. We had 5 Investigators come to the Luau which was great to have them there, and have the ward be able to fellowship them. They had Local Hawaiian food, so they had Raw Fish (Poke), Deep Friend Fish, Shrimp, Poi, Hawaiian long rice, regular rice, and some other Hawaiian dishes. Then we had dessert, and then had a talent show. Where a lot of the Youth performed different acts, including singing, hula, dancing, and the Haka. All of the Single Men in the Ward had to get up and do the Haka, and they made the missionaries go up there too. So it was similar to Lineah Cancillas Wedding when we did the Haka dance, where you scream and yell and slap yourself a lot.

Then on Friday we had a Church cleaning activity for Ward Conference. We had about 80 members come to the church, and do a deep cleaning of the whole building. Earlier that day we had a Zone Conference for the missionaries. All of the Missionaries on the Island came to the Waimea Church, and the Mission President, his wife, and the AP's, all came to the Waimea Church for Zone Conference. We started the meeting at 10 AM, and didn't get done until about 5:30 pm. They trained us on lots of different things, and we did lots of practices. It was really awesome. Then the bran new missionaries that have been 3 months out or less, bore their greenie testimony. Then the old missionaries who go home in the next 3 months bore their dying testimony. Then we went to dinner with a member.

Saturday the Our Ward, Waimea 1st Ward, went to the Temple. Adults, youth, everyone. We didn't go because we not allowed to go to the temple, only on our temple trips. So we went with the Waimea 2nd ward for Mormon Helping Hands. We went to the Hospital and cleaned up the grounds, which took about 3 hours. It was really fun, and we all had a great time.

Sunday was Ward Conference. Our Chapel was overflowing, with the whole gym full of people all the way to the back. We had to keep setting up chairs in the back for people coming in, until there was no more room in the gym for chairs. We had about 500 people at church. Which is really good for our smaller sized church. Stake President came up the the Podium, and released our Bishop, and the Bishopric. Then he told us the Waimea 1st ward was splitting into 2 wards, the Waikoloa Ward, and the Waimea 1st ward. Then called 2 new bishoprics for the 2 wards. So that was really emotional for a lot of the members who are splitting up from their friends. Mission President hasn't told us anything so Me and Elder Richards are assuming we are going to be covering 2 wards now, until they get another set of missionaries here, probably next transfer.

So at the Beginning of the week, Elder Shepherd, who used to be my companion, called me and talked to me. He told me to try to find 2 people named Travis and Carrol who moved into my area, who used to be his investigators like 1 year ago. He didn't have a address nor a phone number but just told me to try to find them. So then like 4-5 days later, i think it was Friday night. We just got home, parked our car, then went to go check the mail. We walked past a picnic area, on our way to the mail boxes. I saw 2 people there, and i just said "Hello." Then we started talking, and i found out they used to meet with the missionaries, and moved to Waikoloa pretty recently. Then we find out that these random people we were talking to was TRAVIS and CARROL, the people Elder Shepherd told me to find!! They were really nice.What a miracle it was to random run into them, and start talking to them. They told us they want the missionaries to start teaching them again. So they told us to come over, so we are going to go over there on Tuesday. What an awesome miracle though!

Mom told me Ethan got his mission call but she wont tell me where. So i cant wait to hear, I'm super excited for Ethan. Let me know where hes going ASAP!! Love you all.

Love Elder Durocher