This week we had exchanges on
Wednesday. I went to Mililani with sister Meatoga and Sister Broomhead went to
Wahiawa with Sister Oh.
Then, on Thursday we had a district
meeting to plan for a training that our district would be giving at youth
conference! They hand cuffed us to our companions and then we had to build something out of
snack foods and frosting. It was super fun!
Friday we spent ALL day at youth
conference. There were 6 groups, so we gave the training 6 times. It was so
much fun! We were supposed to be done around 2:30, but the leaders decided that
they needed one more set of missionaries to stay later and help the youth go
tracting. SO our zone leaders asked us to stay! We were so excited!!! So we got
to go around with these cute teenage girls and help them invite people to the
activity Saturday morning. They were so cute! They were a little bit shy at
first, but then they got more confident. It was great to see them out being
little missionaries :)
The activity that they were inviting
people to was a family history fair. Saturday morning all of the youth helped
people in the community to learn more about family history work. Many people
came to the church and the youth helped them to set up accounts on familysearch.org
so that they could look for their own ancestors. It was neat to see the youth
so excited about it, and it was so good for everyone else to be able to learn
about it.
On Sunday, we had so many
appointments and we were busy all day!!!!We had a meeting in the morning, then
we went to church, then we ate lunch, then we had appointment after
appointment. Unfortunately, the last three appointments were dinner
appointments......so that was fun. We felt so bad because the 1st dinner was
like "eat sisters!" "have some more!" "that's all
you're going to eat?" "have some more rice" "I'll scoop you
more soup". Finally his wife was like "honey, maybe they're full!
they don't eat as much as we do!" haha so that was our first dinner. The
second dinner had a salad with the meat, so that one was nice and easy. Then
the third dinner was a Samoan family…. ..So
it was all meat! We just explained that we had a curfew that we had to make- so
we ate a little bit, then took the rest to go. We made it home with 7 plates of
food to go. gotta love the generosity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously! They are so
giving! But I am so full :) I think that love is spelled F.O.O.D. here. If they
love you, they feed you- if you love them, you eat their food. That's how it
works.
Oh and the most exciting news of the
week is that President gave our zone permission to go to the Polynesian
cultural center today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never in my craziest dreams
would I imagine that he would approve that! But the zone leaders asked him, and
he said yes!!!! No one EVER gets to go to the PCC unless it is the day before
you go home. (or if you serve in Laie). But since I don't serve in Laie and I
am not going home I never expected this! So we'll have great pictures next
week!
We see so many chickens and cats
here all the time. We saw some cute baby kittens and I was like "aww
they're so cute!!! Kittens don't deserve to live in the ghetto" then
sister oh was like "cats do, but not kittens!!!!" she is so
funny!!!!!! I love my companion! I love this work! I'm so glad to be here:)
miss you and love you all!
-Sister Hodgson
