His name is longer than mine...and it's not even close
Happy Monday everyone!
So we decided to try out a different cyberbase (the place where we do
our mail) this week, and it turns out that that was an awful decision.
I highly suggest going with what works in the future. In consequence,
I'm having trouble getting all the email addresses that google usually
puts in for me-could one of you two forward this on to Megan, Mele,
and Pono?
But enough of that. This week has been very fun logistically, as we
now officially have four missionaries in our apartment. Who, you ask?
MAIN CHARACTERS:
ELDER ANDROS: is de retour in back in Martinique, after an 11 month stay in
Guianne. Incidentally, he is also the father of Elder Porterfield, who
was with him six weeks ago. The first time I saw him, I was about 80%
sure that he was Draco Malfoy. I'll see if I can get a picture in the
future to show you, but you'll get it right away.
ELDER MIYASAKI: is our Hawaiian baby. Since he has arrived, there may
or may not have been some very hurtful comments going around about him
being a "real hawaiian". I stand firm in my position that I am just as
Hawaiian as him, but so far that opinion seems to be the road less
traveled. Fun fact-he's from Hilo! Mom, go for it-I expect to have his
entire family tree by next week. Also, the subject line is about him.
So Elder Andros came in Wednesday afternoon, and spent the day with
the other elders. Elder Miyasaki was scheduled to come in Thursday
morning, but apparently he lost his passport for a little while. He
was eventually able to find it, but not before missing his flight.
Apparently the next one they could find for him was Saturday morning.
That meant that we spent Thursday and Friday in a tripanionship, which
also allowed me to have a mission first-for each of those days,
whenever we had a member with us, I went on an exchange with the
member, while the other two would go somewhere else and do their
thing. It was really bizzare, being the only missionary in the room
for long stretches of time. But then, Saturday Miyasaki came in and
for the past two days, for the first time ever, we have had three
companionships of missionaries in operation in Martinique. Super fun
stuff.
As far as the work goes, it's been an interesting week, with us having
lots of trouble working with our previous amis, but also being blessed
with lots of new investigators. Good and bad news, but we're still
plodding along. The other fun part has been working through the
adjustment period of having new roommates. It's actually reminded me a
lot of the first little bit at school, every semester that I was
living with someone new. You get used to how they do everything, try
to iron out the quirks, and generally learn a lot about how to deal
with people.
SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: So this week we set transfer goals as a district-it
wasn't necessarily us choosing the goals though, as much as it was the
goals being presented to us. So I thought some of them were a little
bit unrealistic, and as we were walking around tuesday, I thought to
myself "I just can't see it happening". Then, lightning struck my
brain (I think Pono already used that, but shoot, that's really the
best way I can explain it). Immediately the thought came "That's
right, you don't see it. That's why it's called FAITH". How many times
in the scriptures are we told that faith is that which we do not see?
The one that came to my mind at the time was 2 Corinthians 5:7, which
tells us that we walk by faith, not by sight. The grand moral of the
story, though, is that if we only ever shoot for what we can see, then
we will never ever reach what God has in store for us. Walk by faith,
and be confident (right above the verse previously cited).
Well, that's my week. I love you all, and pray for you constantly. Oh,
and also, I'll see you in two weeks!!
-Elder Santos
So we decided to try out a different cyberbase (the place where we do
our mail) this week, and it turns out that that was an awful decision.
I highly suggest going with what works in the future. In consequence,
I'm having trouble getting all the email addresses that google usually
puts in for me-could one of you two forward this on to Megan, Mele,
and Pono?
But enough of that. This week has been very fun logistically, as we
now officially have four missionaries in our apartment. Who, you ask?
MAIN CHARACTERS:
ELDER ANDROS: is de retour in back in Martinique, after an 11 month stay in
Guianne. Incidentally, he is also the father of Elder Porterfield, who
was with him six weeks ago. The first time I saw him, I was about 80%
sure that he was Draco Malfoy. I'll see if I can get a picture in the
future to show you, but you'll get it right away.
ELDER MIYASAKI: is our Hawaiian baby. Since he has arrived, there may
or may not have been some very hurtful comments going around about him
being a "real hawaiian". I stand firm in my position that I am just as
Hawaiian as him, but so far that opinion seems to be the road less
traveled. Fun fact-he's from Hilo! Mom, go for it-I expect to have his
entire family tree by next week. Also, the subject line is about him.
So Elder Andros came in Wednesday afternoon, and spent the day with
the other elders. Elder Miyasaki was scheduled to come in Thursday
morning, but apparently he lost his passport for a little while. He
was eventually able to find it, but not before missing his flight.
Apparently the next one they could find for him was Saturday morning.
That meant that we spent Thursday and Friday in a tripanionship, which
also allowed me to have a mission first-for each of those days,
whenever we had a member with us, I went on an exchange with the
member, while the other two would go somewhere else and do their
thing. It was really bizzare, being the only missionary in the room
for long stretches of time. But then, Saturday Miyasaki came in and
for the past two days, for the first time ever, we have had three
companionships of missionaries in operation in Martinique. Super fun
stuff.
As far as the work goes, it's been an interesting week, with us having
lots of trouble working with our previous amis, but also being blessed
with lots of new investigators. Good and bad news, but we're still
plodding along. The other fun part has been working through the
adjustment period of having new roommates. It's actually reminded me a
lot of the first little bit at school, every semester that I was
living with someone new. You get used to how they do everything, try
to iron out the quirks, and generally learn a lot about how to deal
with people.
SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: So this week we set transfer goals as a district-it
wasn't necessarily us choosing the goals though, as much as it was the
goals being presented to us. So I thought some of them were a little
bit unrealistic, and as we were walking around tuesday, I thought to
myself "I just can't see it happening". Then, lightning struck my
brain (I think Pono already used that, but shoot, that's really the
best way I can explain it). Immediately the thought came "That's
right, you don't see it. That's why it's called FAITH". How many times
in the scriptures are we told that faith is that which we do not see?
The one that came to my mind at the time was 2 Corinthians 5:7, which
tells us that we walk by faith, not by sight. The grand moral of the
story, though, is that if we only ever shoot for what we can see, then
we will never ever reach what God has in store for us. Walk by faith,
and be confident (right above the verse previously cited).
Well, that's my week. I love you all, and pray for you constantly. Oh,
and also, I'll see you in two weeks!!
-Elder Santos
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