Rachel is so “immersed “ in Hawaii
and trying hard to keep the “time on the computer” rules….so I have begun to
ask a few questions…
A few mommy questions: ( skip if you want)
Describe your Area-
our area is one 2 parts military,
two parts very low income housing, one part nice appartments (thats where we
live) and one part local kine Hawaiian roots people. mostly small houses in the
low income area....like really small. it's definitely been eye opening. lots of
Filipino and chukeese and Pompeian live in the low income housing. there are
not too many members in the area so we did a lot of tracting. we've pretty much
tracted the whole area that we can tract.
Most people are very nice to us.
More companion info besides awesome
and really sweet??/
she came out a year ago, and shes
due to go back to the vc in two weeks but who knows. some vc sisters say we're
nice, some say scary. depends on your experiences. some full field sisters say
the vc sisters dont have to work as hard. but i love both kinds of sisters.
language is great! she learns quickly. and she is teaching me some korean:)
what are you studying in your
scriptures?
just about to start the doctrine and
covenants.....gulp....you know what that means….. but im reading nt and bom
right now. love the wars in alma, just started helaman. and im in john in the
nt
what do your Pdays look like?
email as fast as i can, shop clean
house, write letters. our activity week this transfer is next week!! woo hoo!
when you drive in the car do you
sing?
all the time!! mo tab ye elders of
isreal:) we changed the second verse from "the harvest is great and the
laborers are few" to "the elders are great and the sisters are
few" haha
Aloha!
tuesday night was exciting! we went to go and
get our day pass and get on base, but i missed the turn so we pulled in at the
next gate (a gate that cant give day passes) and we asked if we could just make
a u turn. the guy was like "wait I know you. you're fine, just go in"
.....no day pass....no ids....nothing........and he just let us on base! crazy!
so we kind of felt like vips but we kinda felt bad. so afterwards we drove over
to the other gate to head so so we could get our passes on the way out and come
in and out all day…. so we were about to leave base and there was a huge line
of cars to get off base. we were like "what's going on?" then we saw
guards checking cars and I was like "oh no!!! we don't have a day pass and
they are inspecting everyone's cars!!! they never do this.....but the one day
we didn't get a day pass ............" anyway, it turns out they just
wanted to check in our trunk. i was like "we have scriptures and
water?" he looked in and said "no thats not what we're looking
for" we were like "hmmm...what are they looking for?" in the
course of getting our day pass we found out that there was a missing child on
base. a 6 year old girl. While we waited in line to exit the base again we
prayed for her and her family. then a few minutes later, all the cars in the
line started going off base with no one checking trunks. we asked the guard
"did they find her?" they did!!!!!!!! woohoo so that was an exciting
adventure….and we are so glad that the little girl is safe!
this week we had another really
local hawaiian dinner- the rice, raw fish etc and I just ate it. I was like
"woah! what's happened to me? old me could never do this!" but i
guess we just get used to it. I still dont like it, but it's easier to eat now.
haha
we had another car fast on
friday..........I think we spent like 7 hours just walking. our area is so
long!!!!!!!!! we were so sore that night we could barely walk around the
apartment....and I broke my shoes....nice feet huh? so we started crawling....then just dragging ourselves across the
floor...like little caterpillars:) then we just felt ridiculous so we laid on
the floor and laughed till we had enough strength to walk again. It was a great
exercise day though!
also, on sunday a kind of very very
strange guy came to the chapel. he was acting kinda crazy and weird. anyway,
everyone was trying welcome him and help him but he didnt want it. Sister Oh
and I went outside to make a phone call and while I was leaving a message this
guy walked outside, right past us and swore........ I was super surprised and
thinking "he just swore in my voice mail!" so I stuttered through the
rest of the message and hung up.
we had a little miracle this week.
we were looking through the ward list to see who we could visit and one lady
stood out to us....but we thought "no we've visited her before, she wasn't
very receptive" so we picked another lady and planned to visit her. when
we got to her house we were like "this is the same house as that other
lady who wasn't very receptive!" it was a mother and daughter but they
both had different last names! we were like "well I guess we’re supposed
to see them today!" as we talked with the two ladies, we found out that
they had been baptized only a few months ago. they haven't been coming to church,
probably in part because they don't know too much about it. they are so new!
and when people get baptized, the missionaries usually come over afterwards and
teach them more and help them to feel welcome. but no one knew that they had
just been baptized because they were baptized on the mainland and then came
back here to Hawaii. But Heavenly Father knew that they had recently been
baptized. He knew that they needed to be visited, and He brought us there. It
is always amazing to see that He can help us to accomplish so much more good
than we ever could on our own. This is His work. These are His children, and we
are His servants.
I love this work! I love being a
missionary!
love, Sister Hodgson
