Well it rained cats and dogs all of new years day, so we
went down to Kona and played some great fun party games with all of the other
missionaries. Then we went outside to see the fireworks and like 1 minute to
midnight, we all posed for a picture, then a huge sprinkler went across and
sprayed us all right in the face!!! The photographer still took the
picture....needless to say she captured some pretty hilarious faces!! ( hoping
she will send some of those later)
Then on new years day we got to sleep in till
8:00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was the best day of my life!!!!!!! haha
not really but it was nice! Then we played a marshmallow shooting game with pvc
pipes. We did every man for himself, then civil war style: we just lined up and
shot volleys back and forth....then Vietnam style.....army crawling across the ground.
it was so much fun! and we got to watch a movie!!! Ephraim’s rescue!!! it was
good!! and so fun to watch a movie!
Isaiah, our recent convert gave one of his friends a book of
Mormon and he invited him to meet with us!! He is so solid!! He loves what the
gospel has done for him and he wants to share that.
So tracting (knocking door to door) is such a miracle. There
are thousands upon thousands of houses in waimea, and multitudes of people in
each house. The odds of finding any one particular person, at any one given
time in any one specific house are very slim.......so guess who we found? yup,
that's right- the drunk guy who woke us up a few weeks ago!!!! We were almost
done tracting, but we were like "just one more house". As I raised my
hand to knock on the door, and just before i knocked, I saw, through the window
beside the door THE GUY!!!!! I'm pretty sure the look on my face as we met eyes
was a look of terror, fear, panic and shock!!! I quickly composed myself as he
opened the door and our conversation ensued. He went on to mock our moral
standards and whatever else but then he offered a sweet prayer for "these
beautiful women" (said with a drunken slur). As we left he made one last
comment "well, now you know where I live......Cause I know where you
live!!" hahahahaha we have the funnest times tracting
well, we have to go buy coats and mittens.............we're
so cold 24/7....haha this isn't quite what I expected of Hawaii, but we did
not Pack for this!
-Sister Hodgson
