Lights, Camera, Kaneohe!

Well.... It's been a trip of a week let me tell you about it.

"Whitewashing" as it's called is very hard, as it turns out. Usually you have some way to figure out what you're doing, but in this case, we got a nice note from the sisters who lived here before us. It's chaos, but the sights are, to put it lightly, breathtaking.

Our new favorite person is our investigator named Amelia. She's into anime and we got along great right off the bat! She's very excited about taking the lessons and we're glad to be teaching her! Overall, the ward has been very welcoming and so has the scenery, but if you thought you knew that they filmed movies over here, well ok I'll give you that they do film movies over here, but you had no idea what happened to us this week.

So for those of you who have seen the movie Footloose, watched X Men, or seen Power Rangers, there's a common stunt double between those, and he dropped by to pay us a visit. He was directing a missionary training video, and as luck would have it, I'm the star of the show! No literally, we spent a full day of time filming, and I actually have lines and stuff, and next year it's going up on gospel library. The crew are all big shots in film, and that was cool. Mom, get ready for jealousy because I had a nice conversation with one of the producers of "Touched by an Angel" as well. That was a blast. I got some great shots of the process with my Sony a3000, because they wanted me to play a photographer in the film. They were gonna let me borrow a prop one, but my camera was good enough they let me use the real deal. I've had a bunch of great pictures this week, and though many have to do with filming, movies, and Jurassic Park, some of them have just got to do with the gorgeous views that surround our new home.

The weather is very rainy, and while I love the rain, that's not always the best thing. On Friday evening there was a very large storm that took out a few homes on the other side of the area. Please keep those affected in your prayers, as these storms can really cause real havoc on people and their homes. We're OK, thank goodness, but we feel for those less fortunate. Many lost power, and many have suffered flood damages, so like I said, keep them in your prayers.

Elder Durrant and I are working very hard!  We don't know the mail situation here yet. All I know is it isn't the best place to receive mail, so even when it comes to letters try to use email instead to contact me for the time being. Thank you. I'll explain more about why that is later, but the less physical mail coming in here the better, mostly because I can't find the mailbox and we don't technically have an official registered address because the house is shared and we live in the back few rooms. So yeah. That's my only complaint about the new place.

Anyway, that's all for this week.  Aloha!
-Caden

Our new pad

The car we drive is the red 2018 Toyota Corolla