Aloha from Kaneohe, Hawaii!

Yesterday was Mother's Day and that meant I got to talk to mom! Yay!

So aside from talking to some of you on Mother's Day, I also happened to do some grand adventuring this week, so onward with the highlights!

Brittany is still a work in progress, and she's doing great. We're praying for her to be able to make it to church one of these days, but we suspect that her co-workers may be giving her a hard time about wanting Sundays off. Please keep her in your prayers. One of the best things about this week was exchanges, and exchanges went great! I exchanged with Elder Maxwell, and we were able to patch up our rough companionship in the past. I took over the area, which was a very hard thing to do because I haven't been here for very long yet. I was praying basically all day, and to be honest it worked out really well. We were able to catch a lot of people at home who Elder Durrant and I hadn't been able to catch previously, and we were also able to get 3 new investigators this week. One of them is named Tony, and we see him later on tonight. Another one is named Averill, and we were able to teach him a short lesson on the plan of salvation. We're heading back to visit him this Wednesday.

This week was also a double service day on Saturday. We started out with service on a heiau. A heiau is a Hawaiian temple, but it doesn't look like what you'd imagine it would. The Hawaiians built what you'd call temple land, where they build a foundation out of rocks and then build huts on top of it, so now that the huts aren't there anymore, it's basically just a big level pile of stones with moss growing in them, which is just as enchanting as you'd imagine a pile of rocks would be. The land around the heiau is still Hawaiian farm land, so we did Hawaiian style farm work, which means that we threw logs down a mountain for about an hour. It's because I guess they didn't want the logs on the mountain anymore or something. I dunno. It seemed legit at the time. After that grand quest we made our way to the post office and helped out with a food drive, which was a lot of heavy lifting. My muscles are like, 90% more good now or something. I have no clue how to sound cool you guys.

Anyway, that was our week in a nutshell. There's a surprise visitor showing up tomorrow, but that's for next week.

Love you all!

-Aloha-
-Elder Rogers

300 days of missionary service= 300 piece puzzle
(with a message on the back from Zac)