Trust Me, I'm A Professional

So..... Have you ever just had that day when you realize that on Sunday, a day of rest, you've actually ended up working HARDER than every other day of the week, and when you come home all those summer nats have to get swept off of you with a broom because they all got stuck to your body that is actually literally dripping with sweat? Or is that just a me thing. Why do I get the feeling that's just a me thing? Oh. OK. Elder England feels that way too. That's good otherwise this would have been REALLY awkward....

OK, so working on the sabbath aside, a few points of interest this week, first thing: HURRICANE. HECTOR. Yeah apparently a category 3 hurricane is swooshy swooshing itself right for Hawaii. As in, Hawaii the island. I'll be fine. Probably. It's expected to land this Wednesday...I think. From what I know it may cause quote: "heavy rain and winds particularly on the windward side of the big island and the island of Maui". So that's interesting. In case anybody was worried I'm still on Oahu, where I've stayed this entire time, and that means I'm outside of the path of Hector and his temper tantrum. Lucky me. I hope. Also, next thing on the docket is that this week..well it's the final week of the transfer, so I have no idea if I'll stay or go. I've been in K4 for a while now, so it's possible that I could leave, though I hope I don't. In all honesty I'd like to be Elder England's companion for a while longer. If I could be his companion next transfer I'd be the one that finishes him off, but we won't know for sure until Saturday, or, for you guys, next Monday. You know the drill by now. Don't send me things until you have my new address. (If you were going to send things in the first place that is.)

Anyway, with the announcing done for the day, I have 3 major highlights to discuss with you all this morning, which I've put into cute little organized categories because I'm awesome like that, and aside from these three things the only real highlight of the week was getting more rejections. I actually got called a name I'd never been called before this week! That's right, some cracked out street thug dude decided to call me and my companion "professional sh**bags". I can't make this stuff up you guys. I have no idea who or what a sh**bag is, but apparently I'm a professional, so.... Yay me? Anyway, here's some other stuff I couldn't make up if I tried:

First thing of the week involves a dude named Kevin, who you may remember me talking about some time ago. You see, this week we got into Kevin's house again and boy howdy was that an adventure. See Kevin is actually a very interesting guy I found out. The dude LOVES herbal medicines and the like. This week we actually caught him in the middle of the mixing process, so he asked if we could help him out a bit. Being missionaries and therefore being unable to say no to this request, we found ourselves mixing a magical concoction out of Aloe, Ghost Peppers (yeah for real), and a bunch of other random herbs. After we were done squeezing most of the herbs in, Kevin stated that it was time to add the fruit to the mix. As I anxiously wondered what fruit it could possibly be, the most rancid smell I think I've ever experienced performed a violent assault on my nose. I turn around, and lo and behold there's Kevin, holding a jar of brownish pink potato looking things drowning in what looked like pee. Turns out, this is the most "advanced" super food in the world: Noni. (Pronounced 'Noh-Nee' by most, pronounced 'No Need' by me). Apparently this Noni stuff can cure cancer, but it has the side affect of literally tasting like dumpster juice. So what better way to get the healthy out of it than by fermenting it right? Sometimes I really wish I was kidding about these things... So we grab the fermented Noni and we squeeze it by hand to get the juices out of it, and Noni, like a potato, has eyes, so it shoots the putrid smelling juices EVERYWHERE. Everywhere.... And it smells so bad you guys, I don't even know how to describe it. If you thought balut was bad, hoo boy, balut has got NOTHING on Noni. I don't even think it's healthy guys. Anything that tastes that bad cannot be good for you. The smell actually sticks to you as well, and we smelled like Noni for a FULL DAY afterword. It was so bad. But it's gone now so, so yeah. Anyway, Kevin also had us drink samples of this stuff, which was spicy from the GHOST PEPPER HE PUT IN IT, and also tasted of dumpster juice, dirt, and herbs. This folks is why we never ever make green smoothies. They are AWFUL. AWFUL.

Anyway, I've actually run out of time here so I'll summarize the other two big things. First off, Exchanges were a joy on Thursday. I was with an elder named Elder Chiang (pronounced like 'john' but with a 'g' at the end) who is from Taiwan. Not Thailand, Taiwan. (so not where bishop served I guess. I tried to have conversation about it but it backfired so...) anyway the exchange was fun, and also..... Drumroll please.....

We got new investigators!!!!!!!!

AT LONG LAST!

It's great when things finally start working out huh? You wanna know the best part? They BOTH came to church!

Have a great week guys!
また来週!

This is the view from the house of someone we visited this week. They're awesome, but it's a full on HIKE to get where they live (the view is nice though).