Lemons

Hey everyone I hope y'all are doing great! This week was awesome! We've have 6 new investigators so that's awesome! We have taught two lessons to this super cool family. How met them was funny we were walking by there house and there wasn't anyone out so we were just walking by, but then I noticed that their door was open and I could see someone so I just walked right in and started talking to them. Their family is so funny and sad. The grandma has to take care of 4 of her grandkids who all have different parents, because their parents are in jail. I cant believe some of the things the kids here have to deal with! Anyways there are 2 boys who are and 10 and 15 and 2 girls who are 9 and 10. During our second lesson with them the girls would not stop talking. The grandma was like y'all need to stop talking we all know you have a crush on them, and they got so red it was funny. Then later the one was like she thinks you're cute and they went bright red. We are starting to teach them regularly so i have high hopes for them!

This week I've become professional using a pick axe! On Thursday we didn't have much planned, and in the morning a less active called us to do some service for him. We had to tear out his drive way and dig down a few inches. It was so hard and it took us 7 hours! I learned how to use a pick axe correctly and felt really cool so that was fun haha.  Were still not done though and going over there later tonight to finish.

So when we first get to the mission they give us this huge binder that has bunch of different stuff in it. The last thing in the binder is a 15 step program to help people quit smoking. The program is really cool because it was made by missionaries through prayer and fasting. Its been used to help 1,000s of people quit. Anyways we have a guy that wants to quit smoking so I've really been studying up on the 15 steps. Im so excited for it to see how it goes. Its such an amazing opportunity to be able to help people change their life.

The best part of this week by far conference. The talks were so good. I really loved how much they talked about the Book of Mormon and missionary work. The biggest thing I took out of conference was to be ambitious for Christ. That really stuck out to me. What does that mean to me? How can i apply it? I thought a lot about football and how hard i worked and how much dedication into it, and I thought what if I spent all that time serving Christ? I cant imagine how different I would be right now. Im not saying thats realistic, but we all have things in life that we spend to much time on. I would encourage you all to find something that you spend to much time on and spend that time on being ambitious for Christ. I promise you that the lord will bless you so much if you do! 

What i really love about conference too is how amazing it truly is that we have a living prophet and apostles on the earth today. Gods word never ceases and what an amazing blessing to know that. I love what preach my gospel says about prophets. "The teachings of living prophets provide an anchor of eternal truth in a world of shifting values and help us avoid misery and sorrow." This is powerful especially with how the world is now. I love conference so much and love reading talks from the prophet and apostles. If you didn't watch conference i would highly recommend you do! 

The only thing bad about conference was that none of our investigators showed up. I was so sad haha. I tried so hard to get them to come i called them texted them both days and no one showed. Its so hard for me when people don't follow through on what they say. Especially when we promise blessings from god to them. We have two people who are praying to know if they need to get baptized again, and we promised them that if they came and watched general conference they would receive an answer. Ya thats probably the hardest thing right now haha. I love my mission so much. I never really realized how big of a deal sharing the gospel really is. Its about peoples eternal salvation which is so crazy to me. The lord trusts me with 46,000 peoples souls! Ahh just is so crazy and so humbling. The leaves are starting to change here and Im so excited for fall, because it will cool off haha and I heard that the fall here is gorgeous! I hope everyone has a great week! Love you all!

Much Love,

Elder Taeoalii

My last district picture with Elder Ashcraft :(

This is from Kelly:  In my personal email, he mentioned a boy, named Josh, who absolutely loves Moses and says he is his best friend.  They got to watch conference together.  Here is a picture of the two of them. Being a missionary mom is one of my favorite roles!! xoxox