Week of Service

 Aloha everyone! Hope your all doing great. Its been an exhausting week. Almost everyday this week we have had service projects. Tuesday we helped out at the food pantry giving food to people in need. It was super fun we were running with a shopping cart putting food in people's cars. 

Wednesday nothing exciting happened. Thursday we went with one of our members Aunty Emma and helped her friend clean his yard. Coolest part was it was in my last zone one of my past companions Elder Quitola was there. It was super cool reconnecting with him. 

Friday we went back to the house with the jungle yard but this time we had a lot more help. Funny we still didn't get it finished but we are making progress. 

Saturday we helped our member Aunty Emma on her farm. It's pretty cool what happening on her farm. She has farm hands that help her they are involved with life 360 which is a program that helps people change there lives not only that they bring in kids that live in rough areas around the island to get out and help on the farm. It's always fun helping out, we've cleared a little spot we planted banana trees, coconut trees, and we going to plant ginger soon its really cool they gave us a little spot for us to plant take care of. 

The scripture that summarizes this week is Mosiah 2:17 "And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God". Serving and helping others is crazy how many doors it opens to teach people, although we arent teaching anyone from the services we've done it helps open the door for others in the future. Hope everyone has great week I love and miss you all. Aloha!

Elder Peterson 

1. Most of our zone clearing the jungle

2. Our little garden in Aunty Emma's farm (work in progress)

Miracles in Kanaluu

Aloha everyone! Sorry it's been a while since I've sent an email. Last week we had a baptism! It was a crazy miracle. Our mission fasted for this September that we would see many miracles this month. After we closed our fast we get call from a member telling us that his friend Steven that used to be taught by the missionaries wants to take the lessons again! Before we started our lesson he told us that he wants to be baptized and go to the temple, we were blown away little did we know during the gap we stopped meeting with Steven the Lord was preparing him. The following Saturday he was baptized, after the baptis he told us how he wants his kids baptized and his brother in law in is less-active wants his kid baptized now! All it takes is one peron to open the door for others. We were talking to our ward mission Leader made a great statement he told us how right now so many things are closed or locked down how with our church the temples are closed, and even the churches but the one thing that still hasn't stopped is missionary work. Right now is the time to be focusing on missionary work. 

This week we've been doing a lot of service projects. We've been helping an Investigator named Kimo help build a room for his grandkids. We found a new person named brenda we are helping her clean her jungle yard. Man time has been flying by. Yesterday marked 19 months on my mission. Hope everyone has a great week. Aloha 

Elder Peterson