Moroni's Miracle Month

What's up everybody?! Apparently the fan base is dying for another weekly email so here I am, Elder Mintavious Pellegrino Johnson checking in real quick. I'm currently on the Friendly Isle, also known as Molokai, just doing some exchanges with the Elders here. Due to some new living arrangements, we're actually gonna be spending the night at the new senior couple's house who just got to Molokai very recently themselves. We went fishing this morning at an absolutely stunning beach and caught a small Christmas colored fish.

October has been proclaimed Moroni's Miracle Month in the Hawaii Honolulu Mission because in September is when Moroni (the last writer in the Book of Mormon) appeared to Joseph Smith and told him about the Book of Mormon which was buried as gold plates near his home. So our goal as a mission is to see 100 baptisms in the month of October. Not because we want more people to join our church, but because baptism is the 1st step to returning to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and living with Them in a never ending state of happiness. Currently our mission is at 28 baptisms I think, so wish us luck! Hopefully we can get 72 more!

I've been enjoying being companions with Elder Del Rio! Hes probably my best comp since last October, so I'm super blessed to have him. Hes also Filipino which is super helpful bc we have a lot of Filipino's in our area. Once people find out he's from the Philippines, a 10 minute lively conversation sparks and then we share more about our message and they usually agree to have us back over.

I enjoyed general conference just a few weeks ago. I highly recommend it to everyone reading this email. A few of my favorites were President Oaks, President Nelson, Brother Wilcox, and prolly a couple others that I cannot remember at the moment. This past week we had interviews with President Walker as well as zone conference which was fun. After talking all day about how we can find more people to teach, Presidenf Walker sent us out to highly populated areas and told us to come back in like 45 minutes. In that 45 minutes, the 25 of us missionaries were able to find 14 new people to teach and had 9 people commit to baptism. This really strengthened my testimony that God is a God of miracles. Moroni's Miracle Month has been amazing.

Theres loads more I could write but I cant remember it all. Hope everyone is doing well. I will see you all in about 5 months. Do I have any idea what I wanna do with my life? No. Do I have any idea what I wanna study? No. But wish me luck haha! For now I will just focus on the work of the Lord out here bc that is what is most important. Sincerely, Minty (Elder Buckwalter)