Aloha my lovely ohana!!!
No worries about the email last week!! I still got emails from people :) So you went to Alaska?! So fun!!! Sounds like a nice contrast in weather from what AZ must be right now.
Wellll this week has been pretty lovely!!!
First things first, you know how this is a short transfer? Just four weeks?! Sooooo I was reallly hoping that since it's a short transfer President would let me stay out for another transfer here. I saw him at a fireside last night and asked him, and he told me I was going back to Laie. My heart broke a little bit. I'm excited because Laie is like my home... Buuuuut all my people here!!!!! I will miss them so much!!!!!!! But all is well.... I know they'll be taken good care of. So I'll be back in Laie in 9 days!! It's crazy how fast time flies... I feel like I just got to Hawaii last week.
So! You know that miracle referral?! Melanie and Nolan?! Well! Good news! They have been coming to church in our ward the past three weeks, and we had our first lesson with them last Tuesday, and they are getting baptized!!!!! Woooo!!! We're SO happy for them. They are seriously the most prepared people. We didn't even do anything except teach them the first lesson and invite them to be baptized. They're awesoooome. Their baptism will be right after I leave, but it's all good!!! I'm just so happy for them! Haha Melanie is a school teacher, and so she loves to read and study. She pretty much begs us for homework assignments before our lessons, so she can be more prepared. When she reads she takes notes, makes lists of questions, tries to find the answers herself, and tells us what she finds. She is a DREAM investigator. No joke.
Anyway, another miracle from this week! Some elders in our zone planned a huge luau for everyone and their investigator and their dog. (It was just like the one on The District DVD!) The turnout was fantastic. There were more non-members than there were members! They did a rotation thing where you could learn how to make Leis, how to do a Filipino dance, how to hula, how to make a grass skirt, and a "temple room" where you could learn about the temple. Everyone just rotated through and it was so fun! We met these guys that were currently living in a boys home, and have a pretty rough life. But they were so receptive to everything it was ridiculous! They saw the picture of a baptismal font, and we explained what baptism was and they were like "no way! I want that. I wanna get baptized! How can I get baptized??" I wish everyone's reaction was like that haha! They were just so humble. Haaaaa OH and one of the boys with them was Kalani!!!!! Remember from Laie, how I was teaching a 14 year old foster child named Kalani? Well my last week in Laie he ran away, and everyone was so worried. And I was really sad. But he was there at the Luau!!!! He was still kind of a punk and wasn't open to anything, but it just made me so happy to see him.
Well I love you all so much!!!!! Have a great week and remembaaaa whooo youuuu aaaahhhhh (*said in Mufasa's voice).
<3, sister sabey
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