Staying in Ewa Beach and Finding Folks....

September 2, 2014


Aloha My fellow children of Heavenly Father!

So it was an interesting week in Ewa. Lets start off with a lesson that I had on Tuesday. We had dinner with some members and they said they were inviting their non-member friend named B--.  She only has one leg and I will say that for what she has been through she is the most optimistic person that I have ever met in my life. She told us that she has lost literally everything that she owns 7 times in her life. I have never seen her not smiling. Also the lesson went great! Every time that we finished explaining something she would say something like "Oh my goodness I have never fully understood what a prophet does, mostly because in my church I have never been able to think about it." And stuff like, "Wow.  Now that I think about it, all of the churches change things without even attempting to claim proper authority." Also, when we handed her a Book of Mormon she giggled like a little girl and said "I might even read this while I drive home, just kidding that isn't safe at all."

Also this week was transfer week. You are probably like,"What it seemed like only last week he was having transfers."  Well so many people are going home a few weeks early because of college that they just decided to have a four week transfer instead, and as a result, this transfer is going to be a seven week transfer. I am staying in Ewa Beach with Elder Hineman!

So we had this guy who's name is J--, who we met while tracting, who wanted us to come back and teach him a lesson but when we got to his house we found out that he was there for just the summer with his girlfriend. The sister of the said girlfriend answered the door and guess what? She wants to have us come back! Ha! J-- thought that he could trick us but the good guys always win!

Also this week there has been a sickness going around our district...again...so we have all been kind of off lately.  Well I was feeling super tired and I noticed some houses I have never noticed before. The only was to describe where they were hidden was that there is this walkway between where the street ends and where the houses end, so the houses don't end where the street does. Well I have never noticed this before and apparently there is only one place where it does that. So there are only four of these "hidden houses" and of that group 25% of them told us to come back! That is a pretty good percentage! Also while in this...state of mind... I found a street that I had never seen before even though it is in the middle of the area and we finally got to tract it on Saturday because we tried to find it again a few times but we just couldn't. For this reason it is now called...[insert dramatic music] The Narnia Street!

Ok I got to go but you all should read 3 Nephi 18:24 and do as the Lord commands.  Lift the light high.

From the Islands of Hawai'i...

Love,

Elder Carlos