Well its been yet another interesting week here in the Ka'u Ward. First and foremost our ward mission leader Brother Galapir asked us to help him and his friend Glenn skin a pig that they shot that day. Neither of us had done it before but we were down to learn, needless to say it was significantly harder to do than we thought but we managed to not mess up the pig too bad. Took some fun pics along the way and Bro Galapir made some adobo with the pig meat so we were quite happy about that. (Also we might start teaching Glenn now)
Bug story for this week was when we were having dinner at a members house I felt a tickle on my arm and saw a tiny blue centipede crawling on me. I quickly brushed it off and killed it without thinking only to then find out that blue centipedes are waaay more dangerous than the ones we usually see (also more rare) and on top of that when they're babies they can't control their venom as well so if you get bit by a baby you get more venom than by an adult.So basically I almost died. The more you know!
Missionary story for the week was that we set our investigator Josh with a baptismal date for the 17th of this month. He is soooo ready to be baptized and has totally changed his life around since he started meeting with the missionaries. I don't think I've ever seen someone so excited for baptism in my whole mission. I feel so blessed to witness this.
Crazy story of the week was that we saw a man in church that we didn't recognize, we wanted to talk to him but he dipped before we could catch him. A couple hours later while doing our studies in our pad (which is on the church grounds) we get a knock at the door from a cop. Apparently this same man had just been caught breaking in to the church and we had no idea (somehow we didn't hear the whole thing go down). So we had to answer some questions for them and they checked the building to make sure no one else was in their. Everything turned out alright though and nothing was damaged.
So that was yet another crazy week in the middle of nowhere. I keep thinking I'll get the hang of this place but it keeps throwing curve balls. Good ones though. Anyway hope all is well and that you are staying safe.
Aloha!!
Elder Smith
Hawai'i Honolulu Mission
PICS:
1. The southern most point in the US. The closest thing south of this is Antartica
2. Ham-let
3. Moody and the Brain
4. I'm sure this skill will come in handy at some point.
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