Well this week was relatively uneventful compared to the others, lots of driving around though. I got to exchange on Tuesday with the Pahoa elders and that was a fun experience (met a woman who liked what we had to say but said the main thing holding her back was that we celebrated Christmas which is a pagan holiday. She wasn't even J-dub so I don't know where she was coming from). But yeah it was fun seeing another area. Thursday we had interviews with President Bekker which was really awesome and helped me to stay focused on what matters. He says he is going to try and make it to Josh's baptism this week so that will be cool, also it will give him an idea as to how "in the middle of nowhere" our area is. That should be fun.
Since Interviews were in Hilo and we had zone conference the next day so we just spent the night with the Kea'au elders and drove the rest of the way to Waimea the next day.
Zone conference was awesome and I absolutely loved the theme of "Christ Like Obedience" or more so making sure that our obedience is center on being Christ-like and not on just "following the rules" sometimes I think we lose sight of that and need to be shown what the reason for obedience is. I'm a big fan of the emphasis.
Aside from that we didn't have much luck this week in the finding department and could catch most of our investigators so those are things we will be working on more this week.
This week was not without its funny story, you see a pair of investigators were gone this week on a trip to the mainland. They asked us to feed their cats while they were gone and we agreed. So we get to their house the first night and fill up their food and water and decide to stay 10 or so minutes to give the cats some human interaction. Only problem is one of the cats slashes at Elder Moody on the side and I start giving him a hard time and telling him it can't be that bad, only for one of the cats to then slash ME on the back enough to bleed through my shirt. Sooo we figured these cats weren't messing around and got trapped in the house for about 20 minutes before we could get them in their room and get out the door. It was actually the most terrifying moment of my life. They wanted blood. Aside from our feline encounter not much else to report.
We are super excited to see Josh baptized this week and super happy to see the work moving forward. Love you all and hope you have an amazing week.
Aloha!
Elder Smith
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