Aloha with Thanksgiving...
I'm running out of clever subject lines... if any of them ever were clever to begin with.
Life in Hawaii, or more specifically on Kaua'i continues. We just went through a tropical storm this last weekend, which brought a lot of rain, and little bit of a damper to spirits. Hard to do work when you can't see the road, or the roads are flooded, but we do our best! It seems to have cleared up a little, but I was told to get used to rain during the winters.
This last week has brought a few updates to our missionary work. We didn't find any new investigators last week, but we may have potential with one of the referals one of our families gave us. The exciting news comes from another of our investigators, whose name is Francis. He is the brother of a member in our ward. She converted about five years ago, and is very active. He started coming to the Family Home Evening one family holds in our ward, and became
interested. We were able to teach him the restoration last on Friday, and he told us on Sunday he wants to be baptised. Since he has come to church twice, we could baptise him as soon as next week. How exciting is that?
We have also spent a bit of time with Jack and his son Tyler. Jack has definately felt the spirit, and is drawing nearer to the Lord. Right now we are just trying to help him with his relationship with the Lord, and throw in a few important gospel principals at the same time. He is a really cool guy, but we don't want to force him into anything. He has amazing stories though, and is
making great progress.
Today has been an interesting day so far. We woke up planning on having only a short P-day because of thanksgiving. We were also going to try to go fishing with Jack during that time as well. Well, Jack canceled, and we had to go into town (Lihue) to get new tires for our car. While we were getting the tires our Zone Leaders called and told us because the zone did so well teaching last week, we were being rewarded with a full p-day. I don't know how to respond to the idea of being rewarded for what we are supposed to do, but we will enjoy our day
regardless, especially since we lost a lot of time this morning with the tires.
On the way back we stopped by Wailua falls, a cool waterfall more inland. With the recent storm, there was a lot of water, and it was really beautiful. Happy Thanksgiving to all later this week. We have actually been told not to prosolyte (sp?) on Thanksgiving at all, but to spend the day with members that have invited us over. Well, Elder York and I are actually going to volunteer at an (throat clearning noise) "Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" Basically we
figure we are going out to do service to be seen of men, but our bishop thought it was a good idea. I do too as I like service, but it seems slightly strange. After that we are going to the Allen's, a really cool and missionary minded family in our ward. Brother Allen owns a mall, and is very wealthy, and loves to have the missionaries over. They have four boys (two are twins) who are
crazy. One plays the trumpet though, so I have played a little for him. I was really rusty. Anyway, we will be over there for a bit, and they have also invited us for Christmas, so I will probably make my call home from there.
All in all, life in Kaua'i is good. We are working hard, but having fun. I like my companion (which is a first in my mission so far), and we get along well. I think we are both a little too sarcastic not too. I hope everyone is doing well. It's great to hear that Ben may be getting a job in Salt Lake, and that you are feeling better mom and dad. I hope the cleansing/renewing process goes well. I also hope the book club continues going well. Bonds that set us free is a great book. I love you all!
Elder Kidd
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