Hi Ohana!!! :)
Shaka Brah! This week has been simply smashing! Summer has officially begun, and it's been raining straight for the past three days. It's really nice though. :)
So Hawaii schools have this huge tradition called Lei Day, and they always do it sometime after May day. All the kids dress up as a certain pacific island with all the traditional clothes and whatnot, then they perform a dance to show that island's culture. It's a super big deal here in Laie! So we were visiting Bethany, one of the non-members in our area, who's an elementary school teacher. Her kid's Lei Day was the next day, and she invited us! We are really trying to build her trust in us, so we decided to go for a little bit. And then she told us Jack Johnson would be there!!! So the next day we went (it was right by the beach where they have the surfing competition every year... remember when we were there for that??). It was so fun to watch. All the little kids did their little dances in their little costumes. It was so cute. Then Bethany said maybe we'd meet Jack Johnson! (..it seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no.) (see what I did there? :)) We didn't actually get to meet him because we couldn't stay for too long. But it was good that we went because Bethany was really happy! It's just too bad I didn't meet my lifelong goal of meeting Jack Johnson and converting and marrying him. Oh well, at least I tried right? :)
Anyway! You know how we teach the people we meet through phone and email? Well when sisters go back home, they give all their contacts to the other sisters. By the end of their missions they usually have hundreds of contacts. So about three weeks ago one of the sisters left, and gave a TON of her contacts to me. Most of them were people who she had tried contacting already but they never answered their phones. I had been stressing out about it because it's overwhelming whenever I see how many new contacts I have. For a while I considered just deleting some of them. I figured they probably wouldn't answer their phones anyway. But I felt a strong sense of urgency when I thought about them. Looking back I can now see that it was a prompting from the Spirit. On Thursday I had computer time, so I decided to just break down the people into categories and call every person within one category. So I decided to call all of my Member Referrals. I started calling, and on about the third person I called someone answered! His name is Carlos. He was actually willing to talk and listen! At the beginning he seemed kind of doubtful and confused about the Church. He had a lot of good questions. As we talked I was able to teach him more about the Restoration. Throughout the whole time, I could tell he was becoming more and more softened. By the end he was willing and excited to learn more! So he became my new investigator and I get to keep teaching him! I am so grateful I followed the prompting to call instead of delete his name! Because he really is more than just a name, he is a son of God who Heavenly Father cares about and wants to have the fullness of the gospel!
Anyway, sorry there aren't a ton of exciting things I can think of to tell you this week. But I hope you are all doing well, I love you each SO much!!! Keep doing CPR (Church, Prayers, Reading scriptures)!!! <3<3
Much Aloha,
Sister Sabey
Picture #1: the four amigos!!! these are my wonderful padmates!!! we seriously do everything together. we may as well be in a quadpanionship.
Picture #2: Papaya and ice cream. Our ward mission leader's specialty. Every week he sends us home with a bag of delish papaya.
Picture #3: it's an oldie, but this is when I was with Sister Kim and we finished the 12 weeks program! it was supposed to be a jumping picture and it failed, but it conveys the excitement right?
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