Mom,
Yes I am in Kane'ohe. The ward members here got mad at us because we don't go to thewednesday night activities at church, they do like an uke class and there are apparently a lot of non-members but we should be out working and the ward should be their since they are responsible for finding. We are responsible for teaching people the members tell us about. Remember that, MEMBERS are responsible for finding. We as members need to proclaim the Gopsel as Joseph Smith said.
No one with dates yet, working on it. Our two investigators we are working closely with haven't been able to meet with us this week but one of them Linda has completely quit smoking so she is able to be baptized by Sept. 26th. Just keep trucking a long. Our area has a lot of OLD buddhist people who don't speak english cause they are not native english tongue so that's hard and they don't want anything to do with christians so finding is especially hard as missionaries. But you got to do it anyway. Love you guys.
Spencer (Elder LaPray)
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sep. 7
Yo,
It doesn't really matter whether I get e-mails or handwritten letters, it doesn't matter either way. It was a good experience last week and things have been going good this week too we've gotten a few referrals from other missionaries of people they talked to on the street who happen to live in our area. So things are good for us.
We also had some CRAZY people we talked to this week too. We were tracting near where we live on a street called Wainana Street and we were near the end of it we passed this one house because there wasn't a car there so we figured no one would be home so we walk past it and this guy comes running out of his house and was like "oh you missed me." So we started talking to him and he was telling us how he keeps the Sabbath on thursday cause he saw a special on tv about it and we were like oh yeah do you know about the mormons? and he told us oh yeah I respect you Elders. Then Elder Butcher asked if he had a copy of the Book of Mormon and the guy had this weird look on his face and Elder Butcher asked if he wanted it and the guys said "oh I'd better not....... I burned it with lamp oil as a sacrifice... " And we were like are you for real???? And we asked why he said it was a holy book that's why. Wierd guy. So weird. That kind of stuff happens more often than not. By the way Haole's (white people) are so rude here you figure like locals might be more mean cause this is their territory... wrong Haoles are the meanest people when we go tracting. locals just say no thanks but haoles always like chew us out for going up and down the streets all the time because "no one wants to talk to us." Gee.
Anyway yes we eat local food all the time, Lau lau kalua pig all good stuff. There is some stuff I don't eat like poke fish (raw fish) and other stuff but for the most part it is good. Things are going good though. Love you guys. Talk to you soon. By the way I'm almost at 3 months. weird.
Elder LaPray (Spencer)
It doesn't really matter whether I get e-mails or handwritten letters, it doesn't matter either way. It was a good experience last week and things have been going good this week too we've gotten a few referrals from other missionaries of people they talked to on the street who happen to live in our area. So things are good for us.
We also had some CRAZY people we talked to this week too. We were tracting near where we live on a street called Wainana Street and we were near the end of it we passed this one house because there wasn't a car there so we figured no one would be home so we walk past it and this guy comes running out of his house and was like "oh you missed me." So we started talking to him and he was telling us how he keeps the Sabbath on thursday cause he saw a special on tv about it and we were like oh yeah do you know about the mormons? and he told us oh yeah I respect you Elders. Then Elder Butcher asked if he had a copy of the Book of Mormon and the guy had this weird look on his face and Elder Butcher asked if he wanted it and the guys said "oh I'd better not....... I burned it with lamp oil as a sacrifice... " And we were like are you for real???? And we asked why he said it was a holy book that's why. Wierd guy. So weird. That kind of stuff happens more often than not. By the way Haole's (white people) are so rude here you figure like locals might be more mean cause this is their territory... wrong Haoles are the meanest people when we go tracting. locals just say no thanks but haoles always like chew us out for going up and down the streets all the time because "no one wants to talk to us." Gee.
Anyway yes we eat local food all the time, Lau lau kalua pig all good stuff. There is some stuff I don't eat like poke fish (raw fish) and other stuff but for the most part it is good. Things are going good though. Love you guys. Talk to you soon. By the way I'm almost at 3 months. weird.
Elder LaPray (Spencer)
Aug. 24
Sorry, I am a bit behind on posting these.
Hey,
Yes. This week is transfer week, obviously my companion is leaving me to go back home. I am staying in the Kane'ohe 2nd area for at least another 6 weeks, I will find out who my companion is on Wednesday at Transfer Meeting but as for right now all I know is I will be staying here with a new companion. Which means I will be the senior area companion, not the senior companion but I will know the area better obviously, but not very well being here only 6 weeks. I am pretty sure I don't know the area well at all, but I guess throwing me into the fire helps....
A mission is hard work, really hard work. I had no idea it was this hard, but it will be a good experience. I've gotten a lot more tan on my face and arms obviously everywhere else will get continually more and more white. It'll be great. We have some good stuff going on right now we are continuing to work with Linda Kam in preparing her for baptism we don't have a date yet because we don't know exactly when Warren her husband can become a Priest so we are waiting on that. But she is ready for baptism this time once she quits smoking which will be easy. We are doing an FHE with them tonight and sharing Elder Hollands talk "None Were With Him", it will be good rather than just sharing the missionary lessons. We have refreshed her on all of them and she knows everything she needs to know in order for baptism. We are also working with Robert Weathington, big haole guy from Texas I think I talked about him last e-mail. He didn't come to church yesterday though he said he would, but we are going to stop by him tomorrow. We have taught him about 5 or 6 times and he always enjoys it.
Sad story, this lady, Marissa who lives a ways down from us. We tracted into her like close to the beginning of the transfer and she was talking about how she and her husband were looking for a religion for their young family. Her father used to be LDS but has since become Jehovah's Witness, so he technically still is LDS but doesn't agree with it. We got a call from her last week and she said that she really wanted to meet with us and study with us but she just need to talk to her husband (who is studying J-dubs with her father) and make sure it was okay. Come to find out he doesn't like the idea at ALL, he said he feels betrayed by her, even though he doesn't like studying with J-dubs he is just afraid to offend her dad. It's a tought situation but we are going to try stopping by still to talk to Jessie her husband and find out if we can persuade him in anyway. But yeah. the work is moving forward we just have to keep pressing on. Love you guys.
Love,
Elder LaPray
Yes. This week is transfer week, obviously my companion is leaving me to go back home. I am staying in the Kane'ohe 2nd area for at least another 6 weeks, I will find out who my companion is on Wednesday at Transfer Meeting but as for right now all I know is I will be staying here with a new companion. Which means I will be the senior area companion, not the senior companion but I will know the area better obviously, but not very well being here only 6 weeks. I am pretty sure I don't know the area well at all, but I guess throwing me into the fire helps....
A mission is hard work, really hard work. I had no idea it was this hard, but it will be a good experience. I've gotten a lot more tan on my face and arms obviously everywhere else will get continually more and more white. It'll be great. We have some good stuff going on right now we are continuing to work with Linda Kam in preparing her for baptism we don't have a date yet because we don't know exactly when Warren her husband can become a Priest so we are waiting on that. But she is ready for baptism this time once she quits smoking which will be easy. We are doing an FHE with them tonight and sharing Elder Hollands talk "None Were With Him", it will be good rather than just sharing the missionary lessons. We have refreshed her on all of them and she knows everything she needs to know in order for baptism. We are also working with Robert Weathington, big haole guy from Texas I think I talked about him last e-mail. He didn't come to church yesterday though he said he would, but we are going to stop by him tomorrow. We have taught him about 5 or 6 times and he always enjoys it.
Sad story, this lady, Marissa who lives a ways down from us. We tracted into her like close to the beginning of the transfer and she was talking about how she and her husband were looking for a religion for their young family. Her father used to be LDS but has since become Jehovah's Witness, so he technically still is LDS but doesn't agree with it. We got a call from her last week and she said that she really wanted to meet with us and study with us but she just need to talk to her husband (who is studying J-dubs with her father) and make sure it was okay. Come to find out he doesn't like the idea at ALL, he said he feels betrayed by her, even though he doesn't like studying with J-dubs he is just afraid to offend her dad. It's a tought situation but we are going to try stopping by still to talk to Jessie her husband and find out if we can persuade him in anyway. But yeah. the work is moving forward we just have to keep pressing on. Love you guys.
Love,
Elder LaPray
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