08/17/09

Aloha

It has been a good, frustraiting, uplifting, discouraging, exciting, patience-learing week. So, in other words, was a usual week.

We had a lot of appointments set up for this week. We figured it out, we set up about 12 lessons to teach investigators that we were going to have a member with us for. Well, five of those bailed out on us, which was a little discouraging. On the other hand, our bishop called us up and set up an appointment for us with a less-active/part member family. The wife is less active, but is also the daughter of a family from the ward I served in on Kauai. How crazy is that? Her husband and daughter are not members, but the daughter wants to be baptized, and the father is very attentive. The problem is, the mom is having a really hard time, and is in some programs, which makes it difficult to teach. The father and daughter were going to come to church yesterday, but didn't show up, and we don't have a number for them, but we are still super excited.

We also had a mission conference with Elder Kikuchi this last week. It is amazing to hear how many in our family have had some sort of contact with him. He was amazing, and funny at the same time. Most of us (I'm afraid my companion was nodding off) left feeling super motivated and uplifted. He gave us some great ideas as well, so we are excited to impliment those too.

With David, the one we committed but are teaching more privately now, we had a really good discussion with him on Thursday night. He has had some pretty powerful and scarey experiences, so he is really wanting to make sure he makes the right choice for his family. But, I think he knows he will get baptized soon. We also learned that he grew up southern baptist for a bit, so we are weeding out the anti stuff he heard. Loads of fun.

Well, this morning we went on a fun hike, and tomorrow we are having our district meeting in the bottanical gardens (which I believe is where some of Jurrassic Park was filmed) so it should be good. I need to go buy new batteries for my camera... they get drained so fast it is annoying. Anyway, next week I will be able to tell you about a baptism, and what is happening for transfers! I love you all. Thanks for the support that you give me!

Elder Kidd