Now of course, with a week like this there's only one thing everybody is really that interested in. It's a new transfer! "Who's your new companion Elder Rogers? What's your new area? Is it true you're going to go off island?" Well, it is an exciting time, and it would just be absolutely agonizing to have to sit through an entire email just to get to the end, where the transfer news is. That would just be so.... frustrating, you know? A real test of patience. Reading through everything else and eagerly awaiting transfer news just to find it out at the very end. Ha.
This week Hurricane Hector came by the island, sweeping right beneath the isles of Hawaii. Luckily, we didn't get any hurricane force winds out here on Oahu, but we DID get a bucket load of rain. All week. Now me and Elder England are smart and resourceful people who like to keep ourselves in proper working condition, so it should come as no surprise that we haven't used the car all week. The rain poured down, and we walked. Now I've walked in the rain before, with little problem thanks to the rain jacket I was given a few transfers ago. Now, this time, I guess Hurricane Hector pushed his super soaker rain up in our direction exclusively because let me tell you, riding Splash Mountain in the front row is a better way of staying dry than walking around in a hurricane all day. Yes, while the brunt of the storm swept beneath the island to the south, one tiny arm of it went right over Kaneohe, and I'll let the pictures do the talking on that front. We got so soaked that halfway through the day we had to come back to the pad to shower and get changed! And of course those clothes got soaked through as well. I used my fan to dry my socks and pants. The raincoat kept my shirt dry at least though. Thank youuuuu rain jacket!
So of course I told you about 2 new "people" last week and I'm sure you're dying to hear about it, but neither of those 2 came to church this week unfortunately. One of the two people unfortunately moved out to big island and we won't be seeing him anymore, but the other one just chose not to come this week, unfortunately. He didn't move though so I'll tell you that he's the result of the power of member missionary work. A few weeks ago a young man named Moheni brought one of his friends, a boy named Malai, to a young men's activity. Two weeks after that, (last week) Moheni brought Malai to sacrament meeting, where he sat next to me and I was able to get to know him a bit better. We don't know why he didn't come this week, but we will be seeing him later this week so we'll see what's going on. Malai had never been to a Mormon church before, and he seemed very interested. Keep him in your prayers if you would. Well done, you've made it through this test of patience, my transfer news is kind of boring so I had to make something exciting of it this time. Elder England and I are staying in Kaneohe another transfer. Sorry to make you do all this work just to get the answer. Speaking of sacrament meeting by the way, this week we had 2 brand new people come to church! It's a super cool story though. We met them by challenging them to a game of basketball, and we SCHOOLED them. But we weren't able to talk to them after that a whole lot for a while, but we ended up seeing them at a pizza place later in the week, where we talked with them for a long time about why we do what we do and they got super interested. The last time we saw them this week was on Saturday night when we found them at a bus stop. We invited them to church but when they found out it was at 9:00am they said there was no way they'd be up in time to come. I told them that they would both wake up early the next morning and that they wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. If that happened I said it meant that Jesus wanted to tell them something and that they could learn what it was by coming to church. Sure enough, on Sunday morning they both got up at 6:30am and walked to church. Their names are Michael and Makua. And they stayed for all three hours of church. They had no idea how church worked so Elder England and I explained it to them every step of the way. It was very rewarding to finally see all of that walking in the rain pay off.
Now for those of you who just figured you'd skip to the end, too bad. Transfer news isn't here. Be patient people. And as for the rest of you, have a great week, and Aloha!
-Elder Rogers
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