Well this has been a pretty exciting week. It started off pretty slow sadly with us only being able to see one or two people in a day. Planning on Friday was kinda depressing because we had legit nothing on our schedule so me and Elder Ferrin said a special prayer that despite this we could meet people while we were out and about. We went to visit Moses Simmons, the new Elders Quorum President, and he decided to take us around Ocean View and introduce us to a ton of less active and non members. If you don't remember, Ocean View has tons of people in it but it's super sketchy and people are not very happy to have Elders knocking on their door. So brother Simmons took us to all these people that gave us the stink eye until they saw him, once they did they were super chill with us because that's how things work in Hawaii. In the end we met about 10 less active we had previously been unable to locate, taught two people the restoration, and helped set up for a community event while also volunteering to come by weekly for other service opportunities. It was probably the most productive day I have had in this area and it was on a day where we had nothing going for us. Moral here is never give up regardless of how bleak things may be and members are the best way for missionary work to get done.
Saturday was a boring day, we had to go all the way to Hilo to get our car services and while we thought it would probably take a good chunk of the day it ended up taking 6 hours. The Shawshank Redemption played twice in the waiting room while we were there. Plus side was we talked to people in the waiting room and ended up teaching one guy about the Book of Mormon but aside from that we started going nuts towards the end. Plus they accidentally broke one of the bolts on our tire in the process so we have to go back to Hilo tomorrow to have that fixed. Yay for drive time.
Sunday was also fun, it dumped rain the first half of the day so we had a whopping 20 people at church. Naturally we had to cover some classes so me and Pinoy (one of the YSA) taught the Young Women while Elder Ferrin taught gospel principles class. My lesson was on teaching pure doctrine and I used that picture version of telephone to represent apostacy and restoration. It was pretty fun considering two of the Young women are our investigators, two birds one stone. After that me and Ferrin taught Elders Quorum the principles of missionary work and focused it on the acronym Aloha: Atonement, Love, Obedience, and HA (The Breath of life). The lesson went well and we were actually able to get some participation. All in all dope Sunday.
Pday today has been fun, the Elders from Kea'au and Keaukaha came down and so did the sisters from Kilauea. We took them all to south point and the Punalu'u bakery, everyone had a good time.
So as a wrap up we had a solid week and things might start turning around here. Looking forward to the future. Love you all!
Elder Smith
Hawai'i Honolulu Mission
1500 S Beretania St ste 416
Honolulu HI 96826
Pics: Nametag pic, Hour 5 of Firestone , Love the aina (land), Selfie while walkin'
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