Ivie's Missionary Journey

What's up everyone! Hope yall had a great week! This might be a longer email...I apologize in advance. 🙃 If I could describe what I learned many times this week it was to let go and let God. The spirit taught me that in almost every lesson/appointment we had this week. Honestly I've been in a weird funk and dark place for a while. I decided this week that I've had enough. I'm sick of the darkness I feel. I decided to let go and let God, and so has Sister Nihipali. So we've both been making some changes in our personal lives and as a companionship. And guess what! We're seeing progress and things are getting a little better:)  I've always kind of struggled with trusting in God as dumb as it sounds. I like to be independent and I hate asking for help, even from God. Well I realized this week that I need help. I'm so grateful for this gospel. I'm grateful for prayer and fasting. I'm grateful for my Savior. I love him and he's been with me A LOT...

Hi everyone! This week was good and super busy! We mainly teach a lot of after baptism lessons to converts. We taught an investigator on Saturday named David. He teaches us boxing and then we share a message! It was so fun!! I'm loving it here and I love my companion so much! The title of my email is just cause people always say that to us when we're in Pday clothes and we had some people say that to us last week hahaha. Anywaysss have a great week love you all!! Playing with stickers before dinner with this cute girl❤ Her name is Eden and she's the Bishop's daughter in Waipiolani  You know you're in Hawaii when this is your dinner 🐬 I'm like a real adult now..😳

Hi everyone! I couldn't think of a good title but if you want a good song to listen to, listen to positive vibration by Bob Marley. 🤷‍♀️ This week has been crazy but so awesome! Sister Nihipali is the best ever! She's just a taller and darker haired version of me so she's pretty cool...😏 haha jk. But she's awesome and we really are super similar. We have fun together and work hard so it's going great! It's kind of fun training her and she's doing awesome!!  Mililani is great so far! We cover two wards and both wards are awesome!! We're super busy which is great! We had 5 lessons on Wednesday...which is the most I've ever had in one day! We have a lot of converts who we're teaching after baptism lessons to.  We do a lot of service which is fun too! We do food drives here which we did a lot in Htown. The food drives are so fun! We have three new missionaries in our zone so that is fun hahaha. Everything is going great! Have a great week, love you...

What's up everyone! So I will be transferring to Oahu in Milillani tomorrow! I'm super sad to leave Kauai but I'm excited too! I'll be follow up training Sister Nahipali and I'm nervous but excited! Kauai will forever hold a special place in my heart. The Island and the people here are amazing!! All I gotta say is, #KauaiMoBettah  MATTHEW GOT BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!! It was such a miracle and such a special day! It was a perfect day. He felt so good after and he kept telling us how amazing he felt. I'm so proud of him! He's so amazing!  Today is gonna be crazy so I can't write much more but I love you all! Have a great week!  Wehi, Denise, and Wai Matthew's baptism!! Fox got to baptize him My fav place

What's up everyone! This week was great! Today is my 11 months as a missionary so that's crazy..   This transfer is almost over too so time is just flying by! I kinda hate it haha.  Matthew is getting baptized on Saturday, whoop whoop!! We're so excited for him! He's so ready and so excited! If anybody wants to watch, let me know and I can get you a zoom link to watch it!  The Book of Mormon challenge is still going great! A scripture I liked from this week is Mosiah 26:30-31 "Yea, and as often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me. And ye shall also forgive one another your trespasses; for verily I say unto you, he that forgiveth not his neighbor’s trespasses when he says that he repents, the same hath brought himself under condemnation." I love these verses because it tells us that when we repent, God will forgive us every single time! We're also supposed to forgive people who wrong us. If we don't forgive them, the grea...

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't written an email in a while...  Everyone told me I'd get to a point where I wouldn't want to send weekly emails and we are there.   But I want yall to know about what's going on too haha! We moved Matthew's baptism date up to August 7th, woo hoo!! I basically told him that for my birthday I want him to be baptized before the end of the transfer haha whoops. But he's ready and he knows he's ready! We're so excited for him!!  Honestly not much else too exciting has happened..We've been handing out a ton of Book of Mormons which goes perfectly with our mission challenge which is going great!  Here's a scripture that I liked from our readings this week: Mosiah 2:41 (Basically this entire chapter is bomb, it's one of my favorites) "And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both tempora...