Dear Family,
Wow I cant believe Ethan is going to be entering the MTC in
2 days!! Crazyness!! Oh how time flies. There is a girl in my ward who enters the
MTC on July 31 also, her name is Sister Manaia Afalava. Haha its kind of a
mouthful to say, but look out for her she is really cool. Ethan the MTC is a
hard place, trying to adjust to missionary life, plus you having to learn a
language. But just depend on Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ for the Strength
that you need. Here's on of my favorite quotes "Pray as if everything
depended on God, Work as if everything depended on You." You'll do great
Ethan, try to have fun, and follow my personal motto to "make the best out
of every situation you find yourself in."
So I want to start off by sharing something that happen on Sunday
at Church. Its not a crazy spiritual experience or anything, but its still
pretty sweet! So during Elders Quorum, we were having a discussion on Families
and raising a family and stuff. And a guy mentioned he was from Orem. So after
class got over I went and asked him where in Orem he was from, and told him I
grew up in Orem. He said he lived by Orem Junior High, then about a year ago he
moved to Hawaii. And so we were talking for a little while, then I
mentioned that I moved up to Cedar Hills. And he said he had a son and daughter
that used to live in Cedar Hills, but moved away about 2 years ago. I asked him
their names and guess who his kids are!!?? Skyler Johansen, and McKenna
Johansen!! They Skyler lived in our Ward for a long time, and we became pretty
good friends. Then I Told Skylers Dad that I remember seeing him come to our
Cedar Hills ward a few times to support Skyler. I talked to him for a while
about Utah, and Skyler. He is going to go on a mission soon. So yeah theres my
story, Skyler's Dad is in My ward!
So the Kealoha Kids, Lee and Tani, did not get baptized this
week. They are going to get baptized next Friday though. That's a day that they
wanted so that all of their family can make it to the baptism. Which works
perfectly fine for us. Sheila Geiger, our other investigator didn't come to
church again, so I think we might have to push the baptism back. We are going
to talk to her this week about that. We had a lesson with her this week. Bishop
Alo came to the lesson with us, they were class mates at Kuhuku High School, so
they had fun reminiscing about old times. Oh by the Way Kuhuku High School,
which is the Highschool here in Laie, and Hauula, and Kuhuku, is going to play
East High School in Salt Lake City Utah. They play each other at the end
of August. But anyways, our lesson was on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And their
was a strong spirit at the lesson, Sheila really opened up and shared her
feelings and concerns, and her testimony especially. Her family has been
encouraging her to be baptized, and so she really wants to be baptized, she
just has anxiety about going to church.
Thursday we got another Mini Missionary, I guess we did so
good with the last one, they wanted to give us another one haha Just Kidding.
But his name is Shang Hai Lin, well that is just our Nick Name for him. His
name is Elder Makana Lin, from Hauula 4th Ward, and He
is Chinese. And heres the crazy part, he is only 16 years old, and is
still in High School. I didnt even know you could serve a mini mission when
your that young. But he did great, he's going to be an awesome missionary! We
were able to visit a lot of people while with Elder Lin, but theres 1 person we
saw that I want to talk about.
We saw Nick, who is our Tongan Investigator. First thing we
did was watch the Restoration video with him. After the Video, Elder Anderson
shared his Testimony of the Restoration and the Church. Then I Asked him how he
felt in his heart, or his feelings during the Video and Elder Andersons
Testimony. Because their was such a strong peaceful spirit there, since we had
the Lesson at the Visitor Center, and it is on Temple Grounds. Plus watching
the Movie, and the Testimonies, their was such a wonderful feeling in the room.
He shared an experience with us he had that day with his daughter. Then told us
he is still praying everyday for an answer if the Mormon Church is true. We all
shared our Testimonies about Prayer, and the Book of Mormon, and Joseph Smith,
and then closed with a prayer. It was just a great lesson with him, I always
love seeing this guy. He is so prepared and ready for Baptism. He was actually
joking around about Baptism after the lesson, so I guess that's a good sign.
Oh yeah and 1 more thing, a random tourist game to our ward,
shes from Highland Utah, She took a picture of me, and said she was gonna call
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started writing in Japanese or Something. But the Lady said she was going to
call Mom and say hi to her, and send the picture to her. Im not sure if she
ever did or not.
But I love you all, thanks for everything, thanks for all
the support! have an awesome week!
