Elder Skyler Peterson: April 23, 2019

Hey what up everyone. Everything is going great in Hawaii. After transfers most of our zone changed so me and my comp helped take missionaries to the airport so that was super fun. One of the people we are teaching baptism is this Saturday! We've trying to finish teaching her all the lesson to prepare her to get dunked. Most of the week been pretty normal. teaching the normal peeps helping them too get closer to baptism, Sabura is just closer.

The lady last week that stopped wanted us to teach her kids lesson was this week. Her kids ages are 8,6, and 3. We taught our usual restoration lesson while the 6 and 3 year old were running around but the 8 year old Azriella sat down the whole time listened to what we taught her. We invited them to church but the mom said she was super busy and couldn't make it, I was shocked that Azriella wanted to come to church. Even with her willingness they didn't make but we'll find a way to get Azriella to come.

Last Sunday at church we spotted a man with regular clothes sitting in sacrament. We thought that he was someone investigating our church. Turns out he's a member that used to be homeless and bought an apartment here in Wahiawa. We went over to his apartment this week to have a short message with him. He struggles speaking It can be hard at times to understand what he's saying. We walked in had a prayer with Easter Sunday we decided we'll have a lesson on Jesus. The first question we asked him was what he knows about Jesus. We didn't realize the can of worms we opened He talked about Jesus, then stared talking about Adam and Eve, then he started talking about the war in heaven and made a few comments that don't quite have any scriptures backing them. For instance he said satan had a kingdom on the side in heaven he was working on, that was his first sin. Then he started talking about some life stories I don't wanna repeat, then some other Bible stories I couldn't understand. What went from a planned half an hour visit went to about 2 hours long. That was fun.

Easter Sunday was great. Me and Elder Hutchins spoke in our 1st ward sacrament. The stake counselor invited us over dinner, this was my first big polynesian dinner. It felt like I finished dinner 10 pounds heavier. They great people they are, had an easter egg hunt for us, their daughter and her husband which were probably 5 years older than us. Lucky duck I was, I found the golden egg it had 5 bucks in it. You can say I'm living the good life.

Before I started writing this email we went on a hike to Kainna point. It's the only approved beach were we can go on the sand. Wait you can go to the Beach? Well only rock beaches, this one makes the exception because its sand then rocky at the shore so its approved. The sand felt great, the water felt great. Ahh just kidding, you know I'm obedient and didn't go into the water. Everyone left super sunburnt so that's going to be fun for me.

Hope everyone is doing great, I love and miss you all

Elder Peterson