Malo e lelei! 🤙🏼
Wow a lot has happened in the last two weeks. I finished training, so that's cool I guess. I hated when missionaries asked me how long I still had in training so I'm finally done. 😂 Honestly the work has been pretty slow during the holidays. Rafael was on the mainland for the holidays so we weren't able to teach him. Also, he did end up moving..he moved on base by Pearl Harbor. So he is no longer in our area, so we're working with the Elders over that area to get him baptized. Michael hasn't come to church in about two weeks..he isn't really responding to us anymore. We know that he is struggling with some things though so we think that he might need some time. He did ask about baptism a few weeks ago though, so that was pretty cool!
Our mission has the goal of having 100 baptisms in the month of January! That would mean that each companionship would need at least one baptism! We've been asked to pray for that miracle in EVERY prayer that we say. Which is a lot of praying as a missionary. If you guys could also pray for that, we would really appreciate it!! We've seen miracles here in Hawaii, and we know that we will continue to see them as we have faith and work hard.
We've met with a few members over the last few days which has been good. We do a lot of member work in our mission, which has been kind of hard in our ward. But we talked to our ward mission leader about things and he will help us out. Hopefully the work starts to pick up now that the holidays are over. Our holidays were great! It was definitely different, but it's meant to be different as a missionary. I will never forget my first holiday season away from home, that's for sure. It was hard but awesome at the same time.
I'm so excited for Come Follow Me this year! I loved studying the Doctrine and Covenants in seminary, and I know that I'll love studying it this year too. I want to bear testimony of Joseph Smith. I know that he was a prophet of God! He saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. He translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God. He restored the gospel on the Earth for us in these latter days. I am SO grateful for him, his family, friends, and the early Saints who sacrificed so much for the church. I miss doing Come Follow Me with my family every week so please do it every week with your families for me! We learned and grew so much closer together when we did it as a family. Also...if you haven't read Saints, READ IT!!!! I love it and am re-reading it right now. I think that everyone should read it haha. It is so entertaining and simple to understand. It goes along perfectly with studying the Doctrine and Covenants this year too! So I really encourage you all to read or listen to it. It has also strengthened my testimony of Joseph Smith and of the church.
I hope that everyone is doing great! I hope you all know how much I love you and am so grateful for you. If I can ever do ANYTHING for any one of you, please let me know! You are all in my thoughts and prayers everyday. I love being a missionary and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true! Ofas! 💟
-Sister Searle
The Mataele's porch on Christmas Eve 😍
Bye Elder Potter!
On the hill in our area. Isn't Honolulu so pretty??
Exchanges with Sister Brown in Hawaii Kai!
Sister Israelsen made me eat calamari but told me it was popcorn chicken...I wanted to barf 🤢 (it wasn't as bad as I thought, it's just chewy. 😂 It was also from Cheesecake Factory and I'll eat anything from there lol)
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