Alooooooha my wonderful humans!!
This week has been awesome. On Friday we had Zone Conference, which is the BEST. Well, it's second best to general conference. The Laie Zone is the biggest zone, probably because of all the VC sisters. But that makes it super fun when everyone comes together for training! And President Warner is awesome. We had training the whole day on using the Book of Mormon in teaching. The Book of Mormon really is such a powerful tool we've been given. It truly has the fullness of the gospel in it! One thing that was mentioned that really stuck to me was how much sacrifice was made for the Book of Mormon. Think about how much blood was spilled for that Book, Joseph Smith's and others. Just for us, so that we can know the full gospel. It really is a testimony that it is the word of God! And that it was preserved for our generation! It's our responsibility to not only use that gift but also to share it with everyone we can!!
On Saturday we had exchanges with the sister trainers! I got to go with Sister Knudsen( who is now companions with Sister Kim). Sister Knudsen is one of my favorite humans!!! She's my doppelganger. But really, we are basically the same person. She's from Arizona, she's going to BYU-I, her major is Biology with an emphasis on human development, but she wants to get into the nursing program, she's Danish, she's the second oldest child... tons of random things we have in common. And besides all that she's just a spectacular person! I learned so much from her during our exchange. It was super fun, because I have never gotten to experience another area on my mission! They cover YSA and married student wards. And ah, I just realized how much I love being busy. They have a lot of work to do in their area! That day they had a service project we got to go to. It was seriously one of the coolest things I've gotten to do! We went to BYU-H's Hawaiian Studies Garden. It's a giant garden that takes up half the mountain, and it's 100% native Hawaiian plants. The people who take care of it are majoring in Hawaiian studies, so they are all super local. Before the project they began with doing a Hawaiian song/chant/dance thing and it was SO COOL. So cultural. THEN I got to use a machete to try to make a clearing in a jungle area! It was just super awesome. Mostly because I got to use a machete. Then we went to a married student ward barbeque and meet lots of people!! It was fun because a lot of them I already knew because they come into the VC a lot. And quite a few non-members too! So that was good. Haha oh and one of the Elders who is in "The District" was there. That was kind of weird because he has a super cute wife and babies now haha. :)
Other than that... missionary work in our area has been really good! They are trying an experiment in our stake with missionary work that's starting this week. So we have to give a copy of our hourly schedule for every day of the week to every member in ward council. And then it's their job to fill in every single hole we have with appointments! And they just return it to us and we go and do it! Sounds like heaven to me!!! Our schedule currently has 12 hours of open space for the week, and it would be the biggest miracle if they could fill it! So I'm super excited to see how it goes. A lot of the members are getting more and more into doing missionary work, which is such a blessing for us! We really need members to do work effectively. So I'll let you know how that goes this week! :)
Anyway, I love you all so much!!! Don't forget to read the Book of Mormon every day!!!
<3,
Sister Sabey
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