ALOHA!
At the MLC ( mission leadership council) meeting last Monday one of the elders said
"being on a mission is hard......and that might be an understatement"….
and I was thinking "that is true at times...but right now I am really
having fun" then came the most unproductive week of my whole entire mission. haha. good
timing life. So Monday was the meeting, then Tuesday was our preparation day,
then Wednesday and Thursday pretty much everyone that we visited wasn't home
and it was "just one of those days".....twice in a row. Friday, we
had a long district meeting...then we had to stop proselyting at 5 because it
was the 4th of july! we worked normally on Saturday and Sunday but boy it just
seemed like one of those unsuccessful weeks. but hey, how bad can it be when
you're in Hawaii:)
So Wednesday, we went to a YSA game
night with some of our less active members and they both came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was great to see them there…great peeps.
Also, during the socializing, I
was talking to one of the members, and this guys started talking to my companion.
Afterwards we talked about that guy, and apparently he was an almost 50 year
old, father of 5 kids and, get this, he told her that he will propose to her
after her mission!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha he asked for her address back home, but she
told him that when she returns home, she'll go back to school.............to
which he informed her that he can wait four years:) haha gotta love it.
Independence day was AWESOME! We got
together as a zone and the elders
prepared a giant barbecue! We had pizza hot dogs and played ukelele and some of
the elders had wrestling matches. Then we played a bunch of games and just had
a blast. We saw a few fireworks from where we were and we would all cheer and
shout. then the elders started bobbing for soda cans in a large pot of ice water......boys...........then
they dumped the ice water on an elder. the best part was that he asked for them
to do it but it was funny.....silly boys!
Sister Oh and I have been discussing
what we can do better in our missionary work, and one thing that we decided was
that we need to have more faith! look at the 2,000 stripling warriors! "Yea, and they did obey and observe to perform every word of
command with exactness; yea, and even according to their faith it was done unto
them; and I did remember the words which they said unto me that their mothers
had taught them." "And now, their preservation was astonishing to our
whole army, yea, that they should be spared while there was a thousand of our
brethren who were slain. And we do justly ascribe it to the miraculous power of
God, because of their exceeding faith in that which they had been taught to
believe—that there was a just God, and whosoever did not doubt, that they
should be preserved by his marvelous power. Now this was the faith of these of
whom I have spoken; they are young, and their minds are firm, and they do put
their trust in God continually." (alma 57)
They saw MIRACLES because of their
faith. I know that all of us can and will see miracle in our lives as we have
more faith in Christ.
love, Sister Hodgson
