So one highlight of the week - dinner with a Tongan family that used to live in Hawaii for a while! That meant a few things... 1) a massive feed! We barely scratched the surface of all the food they had. 2) Him sharing his experiences of what the Hawaii life was like, and talking about all the food that you can't really get anywhere else but back in Hawaii! So yeah, it was all about food that night.
Also followed up on someone we found door knocking. He's Christian and a really nice guy, although throughout our conversation he was subtly trying to convince us that Joseph Smith isn't a prophet. One cool thing though, aside from the super nice prayer he said for us, was his table in the living room - it was a massive lego model of the Millennium Falcon from star wars! Said that, in total, I think it took him about 24 hours to complete? Gotta admit it was a pretty impressive model.
As for teaching, we had some cool experiences. First off, we've finally re-established contact with an investigator that we hadn't seen in a while, who's from Brazil. No later than maybe around 24 hours later, we talked to a missionary who just got back from Brazil that week! So we ended up meeting our investigator, Izabel, with the returned missionary, and got to go past the language barrier that was previously there! After a lot of nodding and trying to figure out what they were saying, we were told that throughout her life, including now, missionaries had always come when she needed help and was struggling a bit in life, even though they didn't know what was going on. So that was an awesome testimony building experience for us!
Another cool teaching experience was when we followed up with a different investigator, who, after many teaching appointments, said that she's received and answer to her prayers and wants to be baptised! Now we're just working out what date works best for her, but another testimony building experience about prayer!
Also had stake conference this week, majority of it was about ministering and temple and family history work. Some really awesome speakers!
And I'll close my email with a door knocking experience, which was my inspiration for the title. Met this guy one morning while knocking on his door, who we were able to have a bit of a chat with. Really nice guy, we shared the Plan of Salvation with him and he agreed to pretty much all of it! He said he was spiritual during the beginning of our conversation, so, in an effort to discern who he was and get to know him more I asked something along the lines of, "so, have you always been a spiritual person?" to which he responded no. Then he explains that, in fact, he only recently became spiritual... when he started smoking weed and seeing things. Then he said that, because of that, he knew there was something out there! I tried to just kinda forget what he said as we continued talking. I know God works in mysterious way, but I don't think substances like weed are one of those ways... if you're seeking to strengthen your spirituality, I invite you to keep the word of wisdom, not break it! Just another day in the mission.
Thanks everyone for your love and support!
Elder Ho
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