What a week. For the first time in a long time there were so many miracles happening that I'm not even sure where to begin. But before I get into how good it's been on my end, I'd like to make a humble request. A great friend of mine named KJ Sorensen is serving her mission in Zimbabwe, Africa right now. Her mission has been incredibly hard, and recently it was made even harder by the fact that her father back home has been diagnosed with cancer. Please keep the Sorensen family in your fasts and prayers. Thank you.
Anyway, this week man! It's been a long time since I have had a week as wonderful and rewarding as I did this week. Solomon's kids: Solomon Jr., Sebastián, and Spencer, were baptized by their uncle Aaron yesterday and 9:30am. It was absolutely incredible to be able to witness this great event, and I'm always going to be grateful to the Lord for allowing me to a part of it. What made this whole ordeal kind of entertaining was the sheer size of these kids, because holy crap are they big Polynesian kids! As you will see in the pictures, I look incredibly tiny in comparison to them. I'm so happy for their family because of the great blessing their baptism has been. I've seen them come closer together as a family, and hopefully their mother will get baptized soon as well, and then they can be sealed together as a family for time and all eternity. It's been an honor to serve them and teach them, and I'll be sure to keep you updated on how the after baptism lessons go. For all the wonderful things I feel because of this baptism, there's one problem with it. I absolutely DESPISE the process of filling out the baptismal record. Now, I know what you're thinking right about now, "But Elder Caden! You need to suck it up! It's just writing names on a paper! How bad could that possibly be?" No, OK? You ain't ever had to spell a Hawaiian name like this before ok? It wouldn't even be so bad, but there are 3 of these kids, and this is the shortest name among them.
Do you know how many times I've misspelled this name alone? It was a lot of times ok? And then, after I finally got it right I realized that the last name comes first. So I had to start all over again. And THEN I made yet another ground breaking discovery. The date was supposed to be written "day/month/year" not "month/day/year" like I wrote it. In an incredibly frustrating process, I ended up spending way too much of my day doing this dang thing. You can't even begin to understand how much of a headache this was. However, it was a headache caused by the best of things, and I'm still grateful to have been able to do it in the first place. If what happened on Sunday is any indication, it won't be the last baptismal record I get to make this transfer. In fact my current goal is to have 2 more baptisms on November 3rd, which is right before the end of the transfer, so I'm finishing strong here guys! One of these two is Kalei Kaonohi, who is the Solomon kids' mom. (Their last name is Kaonohi by the way- I just say Solomon because auto correct doesn't screw me over when I type Solomon.)The other is Gena, who is still on track for a November 3rd baptism! You may remember her from a while ago, but even if you don't, fear not. You can definitely expect to hear more about her in the coming weeks.
National Geographic: WILD!
The last thing I want to say is that last p day we went fishing and I caught this really weird, awesome looking creature. At first I thought it was a rope under the water, but then I saw it had weird tentacle things, so I used a bunch of methods to try and grab it without actually touching it, because apparently it's some kind of sea cucumber and sea urchin hybrid. That's what the local guy fishing with us said anyway. That was the only thing any of us caught the whole trip. It wasn't exactly edible, so I released it and we had McDonald's for lunch, but I was super proud of myself because I was the only one who didn't want to go fishing out of the group, and I was also the only one who didn't have a pole, so I used an empty Tupperware that we brought to put our caught fish in as a sort of net and scooped it up. It was surprisingly agile for a weird blood worm thing. Anyway, like I was saying, I was the only one who didn't want to go fishing and I was also the only one who caught anything or had any fun. I thought that was funny. I felt like Coyote Peterson or something from Beyond The Tide. It was totally cool.
Anyway, I hope you all have a fantastic week! Be brave. Stay wild. I'll see you on the next adventure!
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