What's up everybody? Not sure if I've written an email since being transferred from Maui. I am now back on Oahu for the first time in a year! Being off island is definitely better so I was lucky to serve off island for such a long period of time. I'm in Laie now which is where the temple is! I'm not kidding when I say all I've done since being here is eat, eat some more, and eat even more than that. It's absurd. Every night theres a feast going on somewhere and it's very likely that we're invited. Not sure why it's taken me 22 months to fully realize this, but the people of Hawaii love to eat. honestly love may be an understatement. eating is like breathing for them.
this past week we unfortunately were put in quarantine and that kinda sucked. however, that enabled me to grow out my mustache which was fun. It's been a while. we kinda just did whatever we wanted tho which was fun. We played basketball and pickleball almost everyday and even whipped out the classic card game Cover Your Assets. If you're not aware, Hawaii goes hard for New Years Eve. I have a 10 minute video of massive fireworks going off on our street literally non stop. if you're curious, honestly just YouTube it. it literally looks and sounds like a war zone. The people here take pride in it though haha.
I also got to go back to my old stomping grounds. Wahiawa! I made a few stops to see some members there and that was super fun. One of them even took us out for lunch! My first Raising Canes in a year! It was amazing! Got to go back to Royal Palm Street and of course I made sure to take a picture on it!
I love this quote Elder Holland shares in his talk back in October. It reads,
In his characteristically memorable prose, C. S. Lewis imagines the Lord saying to us something like this: “I don’t want your time or your money or your work as much as I just want You. That tree you are pruning, I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want the whole thing down. And that tooth, I don’t want to drill it, or crown it, or fill it. I want to have it out. In fact, I want you to hand over to me your whole natural self and I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my will shall become your will."
love yall, see yall in 2
pics included!
elder buck
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