Choose your hard ⛱🌴 -- December 14, 2020

Aloha and Mele Kalikimaka!

This week was pretty slow. We had quite a few lessons cancel on us so that was a bummer. On Tuesday, Sister Isralesen wasn't feeling good so we stayed home all day just to be safe. So we did lots of contacting, cleaning, and decorating for Christmas.

We went to the swap meet at the Aloha Stadium on Saturday which was so fun! They have a ton of cheap souvenirs. Our Pday will be cut short today so we got permission to go to the swap meet for a little bit. We have zone conference tonight so that's why it was cut short.

Sister Israeslen and I locked our keys in our trunk on Saturday...we were with Sisters Brown and Rothwell doing some finding. We were in their area, Hawaii Kai, which is about 20 minutes away from us. Sister Isralesen put the keys in the trunk and walked away. I didn't know our keys were in the trunk so I shut it..and yeah. Luckily Elders Reed and Ten Bosch came in clutch and grabbed the spare key from the office and brought it to us.

Rafael is doing great! We talked to him about the word of wisdom and he already keeps it! He's basically a golden investigator. He is ready to be baptized. He's still trying to decide if he wants to move or not. Michael canceled our lesson this week because he was busy. But we should meet this week!

Not gunna lie, this week was a little hard!

I've been thinking a lot about my mission and how long it seems! I started getting overwhelmed when I thought about how long I'll be away from home. But one day our great AP Elder Hicken was talking about being fit (he's a marine so he's super fit). He said, "being overweight is hard. But being fit is hard so choose your hard." And I started thinking about that a lot. Life is hard, it's supposed to be. We don't grow if it isn't hard. So I started thinking, being on a mission is hard. But being home going to school and working is hard and it was hard when I did it last year. So what's my hard? It's being here serving a mission. I encourage you guys to think about that. A lot of the time we have decisions to make that are all hard decisions. But think about what the best decision is that will push you and make you grow. Anyways. I love and miss you all! Have a great week!! Ofa atu! 💚❤

Hawaii Kai 😍😍