Aloha mom and dad!!
We found out transfer news and Sister
Oh will be returning to the visitor’s center. I am going to miss her SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
much!! But it will be really good. They really want her back at the VC because
she is so amazing! I am sad to lose her
but I know she'll do great there!
The PCC was super fun last Monday. We saw some shows and hula dancing and
everything.
So we got a referral from the visitors
center too. The guy who went to the VC said that he wanted to know if the book
of Mormon was really scripture from Heavenly Father. So we came to his house
and gave him the restoration video to watch. The next time we came by he said
that he had watched the video and read a lot of the book of Mormon. He wrote us
a two page essay on why he wants to investigate the church!!!! haha ( that's
pretty awesome right?)
Also we are working with two ladies
who were baptized in December but who haven't been coming to church. One of the
ladies is really old and has some memory issues so she tells us the same
stories over and over. She loves to tell us about the haole elders who used to
walk with her to church when she was a little girl. So we were thinking about
how we could help them to come to church and that was our inspiration! We sent
our district leader and his companion (two haole elders ) over to her house Sunday
morning, and they walked with them to church! It was so great to see them
there! we are so glad that they could come!!! gotta love our haole elders! It
is always good to see people come back and enjoy the spirit at church again)
We have a super great district and
zone, but it's all subject to change now! we'll know a lot more next week!
Wednesday I'll find out my new companion. I am super excited to know.
sometimes, especially as a
missionary, I feel so much pressure to be the PERFECT missionary! which is a totally
unrealistic expectation. but Sometimes the thought stresses me out. Someone
shared this scripture this week which I love! and it totally makes everything
make sense: Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in Him,
and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all
ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is His
grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if
by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power
of God. Moroni 10:32
Only through Christ can we reach
that perfection. SO we need to rely on Him in all things. Lets all set a goal to not try to be perfect
on our own!!! It's depressingly
unsuccessful! But we can turn to the
Lord for strength- that's where we find joy and are able to reach our full
potential.
love you ohana!
-Sister Hodgson
