Monday was a solid Pday, just relaxed in Hilo and played some board games with the Kea'au and Keaukaha Elders. After we went back to Ka'u and had dinner with the Kobzi's. It was a fun time and Ethan has been reading more of the Book of Mormon, now it's just a matter of getting him to church.
Not much happened on Tuesday but Wednesday we did some service at the Ocean View community center and had a super intense lesson with Myciah. She has been coming to church forever but is facing some opposition from family. We basically put all the cards on the table, we were super honest but loving and I think the message got through to her. Whatever happens from here is up to her.
We went to the infinite Kaawa house and met a less active named Candice Grimes who had a lot of questions for us. We answered them and told her that the best answers are in the Book of Mormon, she was excited to hear that and said she would read this week. We will be seeing her again this week. We saw Trineice as well this week and while we were teaching her mother also started asking questions so we started teaching her about the need for continuous revelation and why we have a prophet.
We also taught a quick lesson to Anne and Kurt Fraas (the couple whose cats tried to kill me a few transfers back) about the Book of Mormon and they were intrigued by the idea.
My Ka'u experiences this week were eating the meat off a fish (can't remember which kind) that still had all its bones while only almost choking twice, having to deal with a swarm of termites getting into our pad, and helping the Kaawa's move the guts and meat of a cow they just slaughtered. All in all fun stuff. My dear companion is a fantastic missionary but not the most comfortable with the above things so I think I was having a little more fun than him. Oh well.
Church was once again a party and we taught the youth Sunday school as well as a quick lesson to the primary in which I compared the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a Cheeseburger (you had to be there). After that we drove up to Hilo and participated in a stake musical fireside where all the missionaries in the stake sang I'm Trying to be Like Jesus. Super cool fireside in general with lots of cool musical numbers. Spirit was strong!
So yeah that's a summary of another week in Ka'u. Things are moving and I drafted up a 5 step plan last night for how we can be more involved with the ward. We will run it by Brother Galapir (the WML) tomorrow and see how it goes. Hope you are all finding ways to help the missionaries in your area, dinners are great but referrals are better!
Love you all!
Elder Smith
Hawai'i Honolulu Mission
1500 S Beretania St. ste. 416
Honolulu HI 96826
1. Me after eating aforementioned fish (not sure how it was prepared but I dug it)
2. YW got a hold of my phone mid lesson
3. A few of the termites
4. Me and my main man King Kamehameha
5. Any service that requires machetes is a good service
6. Me and Ferrin
7. Digital District Meeting
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