Elder Bucky's ALOHA Mission: Baptisms from my first area!

What's up everybody!!

I had the amazing opportunity to go back to Kapolei to see 2 people I taught over there get baptized & confirmed!! My former companion, Elder Orme baptized Randon and then I actually got to confirm him and it was super amazing!! Then a member in the ward baptized Roderick and Elder Orme confirmed him.

Randon is a gamer with dope long hair! We would give him Book of Mormon reading assignments and then we'd come back and ask him about it and he would give literally spot on summaries of the whole chapter. It was insane!

Then Roderick is from a isle of the sea in the middle of the ocean! The language he speaks is only spoken on his island, nowhere else in the world. He is soooo sickkk. Also has some sick long hair and wears this sick necklace with some teeth on it. He told us he's the "designated diver" for his island and has to dive for fish for everybody to eat. I'm so happy I was able to witness both of these dudes' baptisms.

Yesterday Elder Gordon and I found out we're both staying here in Wahiawa. We then proceeded to have a 2 hour mental breakdown / brainstorming session in an effort to cope with this heart wrenching news. We both agreed that we just don't really know what we're doing and how to best use our time. We just wanna bring others to the fold but aren't quite sure how to do that.

Ah, almost forgot about Thanksgiving. So Thanksgiving was awesome. We had lunch with our ward's Elder's quorum president and his wife. They had little portable camping grills and a bunch of different meat and they had us cook our own food. So that was fun! Elder Gordon even brought his apron - haha!

Then for dinner we ate a member's house living on the army base in our area. Anyone who really knows me, knows I like ham more than turkey...to my surprise this family had ham!! I was so happy and absolutely feasted! That was pretty much our day on Thanksgiving. It was a great time. Our fridge is absolutely stacked with left overs.

I could write more about my week, but its all good. Just grateful for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. What so many people don't understand is that our church is the same church Jesus Christ established while he was on the earth. When he was killed, the church and the truth was lost from the earth. but then in the 1800's, my guy Joseph Smith helped God & Jesus Christ bring the Church of Jesus Christ back to the earth. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is so much more than a religion or denomination. It's quite literally the designated way to return to live with God, Jesus Christ, and our families together forever in a state of never ending happiness. You tell me what other church/religion can do that...

God loves you. Jesus Christ loves you. I love you. God Bless America. God Bless Hawaii &