Companion: Elder Niemann
Okay, so it's Tuesday April 2nd 2013. Yes it was Kalei's baptism last Saturday. It was pretty cool because we had his father-in-law who is the Kona Temple President confirm him. He's such a cool guy. It was pretty funny because Jack was baptizing him. He threw him right into the water like as hard as he could and because we were afraid that the water wasn't going to be deep enough to hold him so we filled it all the way! When he was baptized water flew everywhere and the font overflowed, but he went all the way under so its all good. Kalei is the one on the right and Jack on the left.
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| Elder Shoemaker, Kalei, Jack and Elder Niemann |
It was a weird Easter Sunday because the chapel actually had graffiti all over it. A lot of people were mad, I was pretty mad too. All of the
stuff had been cover with paper as much as possible. But it was actually a
really good Easter Sunday for some reason. The Bishop did a combined the third
hour. He used to live in the holy land and studied there. He's super rich just
like everyone else in the ward. It was really cool because he knows so much
about Jerusalem and all that.
Then yesterday we went to Hana. Its pretty
fricken cool over there!!! We went on a hike where we just hike through the
jungle, climbed the roots of trees, saw huge waterfalls, going through
bamboo forests where its so dark because all of the bamboo blocks out all the
light. Then at the end there was the biggest water fall I've ever seen in my life. It
was like 200 feet tall and it was the most awesome looking thing I've seen. I
took a picture but I wasn't able to capture the beauty of it all. It doesn't fit
in my camera and the water was pretty cold. Aw man it was big and it was awesome.
Then after that
we went to the ward mission leaders house in Hana. He has a house right next to
the ocean with just farm land on it. Its pretty cool over there.
O ya I got my
first gun pulled out on me as I was tracting. We knocked on his door and hes
like, "Don't you know this is private property, I could shoot you right now." But he didn't and he said. "Cuz my fingers are moving right now." So that was nice. :) We had dinner
with two drunk people consecutively. Oh man super drunk! He was playing on his
uke and singing and all that. The other drunk lady was super drunk -- she was just
crazy man.
Our district leader up here in the Pulehu District has pneumonia, so we have been doing a lot of exchanges because me and Elder
Niemann have to basically look over to areas now. Pukalani and Makawao. I did
learn that chapel were we stay at is the first Mormon chapel on Hawaii.
There have been Apostles and Prophets that have visited the place. There's a
picture of Holland with some missionaries in our pad.
Its been a lot greener
here because its been raining a lot more and when it rains here it rains cats
and dogs. And it is in no way warm rain like you told me.
Yeah, thanks for the Easter Box it was most enjoyable. O yah, the zone conference question. Usually for
district meeting we skype Molokai and Lanai but for zone conference we had to
fly them to Maui. It was at the new Maui Lani Stake Center, which newer then ours. OK, I got to go, so thank you for all the support everyone --- I love you!!! cya!
Elder Shoemaker
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| Zone Conference - March 2013 |
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