Aloha 'Ohana,
Amazing week this week even though it was super slow at the beginning. We printed off our branch list and we went about trying to find all of our less-actives and it was good. We met with some of them and they told us straight up if they wanted us around or not and some of them invited us in for a drink and we talked. I love it when people are honest with us. It is so much easier. It was so much easier to find people's homes with the GPS that we have now.
We gave the two girls Maddy and Arron new dates for baptism that will be on Mar 21,2017. That is Tuesday, tomorrow. They are so ready. They can answer the interview questions with ease. We are doing it in a creek like I told yous and it is a really nice place. Nice and quiet and calm. I spoke in sacrament this past Sunday on Missionary work. Big topic. Cut it down to Strengthening the New Converts and the Less-Actives. It went really well! I think one of the best talks I ever gave. Scriptures in there, quotes from the prophets in there, personal Hawai'ian experiences in there, and Preach My Gospel (PMG) too! It was mean as! Lots of people came to tell me how they felt the spirit. Crazy thing happened that day in the middle of class. We get a text from Starie, Maddy and Arron's mom telling us that she wanted to be baptized the same day as the girls. We were so excited we had to leave the class to go jump around and stuff. The girls have been asking Starie to ask them the interview questions leading up to their interview day today. Today too! And she just got an overwhelming feeling at church that it was true and she was going to do it. We told her that she can because she went to church with the girls all three times and sat in all the lessons that we taught so she was set to go. You could hear the excitement in her voice when we told her yes! We drove out to their place that evening to go over the questions and she had the questions on her screen saver. It was so cool! She had her answers ready and she was just glowing! A different person! I love them so much! So we have three baptisms tomorrow at 11 and elder Oneal, the missionary couple in our area will be the baptizer. Also Morgan, their father, we can't find his records so we are going to have him re-baptized as well. He was keen to have a clean slate again. They are all so excited for the day that they will be able to go to the temple to be sealed.
Awesome week!!! Just shows that as long as we show God that he can trust us by working all the way to 9pm not 8pm and doing our best in being obedient he with trust us with those who are ready and are being prepared for us. I love this gospel!
Today we are going on a hike in a cool place then shooting off to the sister's place with the Zone Leaders at 5 to have their interviews then we are all going to stay the night at the Oneal's place and have a baptism on Tuesday! Woop Woop Hara for Israel!!
But I love yous all. I hope yous are being blessed everyday! This is so much fun and important to do this work! Don't forget to do your missionary work for the day! I love you all and I'll talk to yous again! Ka kite ano.
Elder Mortensen
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| Wanted to jump in and catch this fish and fry it up |
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| Baptism spot. |
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| Just some photos of the floods in other areas |
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