Kia ora Whanau!!
Family!!! fa I’ve missed you guys so much...getting to hear from you guys again was so awesome. for real’s was homesick a lot this week, hahaha normally happens when i feel inadequate and when there’s a lot of challenges but all good now. more than anything it was awesome getting to see pictures of you fellas. for real’s you haven’t sent me pics in a while and when i saw them to day it was good as. but yeah im happy as being able to have heard from you guys you all sound great and looks like your all having a good time and having fun..im so proud of you all ae. For me as well I’ve been able to see and feel the progress that you all have been able to make by reading your letters and it just brings me soooo much joy and happiness to know that you guys are progressing and are doing good. keep going hard family. love you heaps ae. For me, oh my goodness i have no idea where to start! These past 7 days have felt like I’ve learnt a life time of things in the blink of an eye. For real’s, um where to start. Okay first off my companion is the man!!!! His name is Elder Anderson. He’s from Utah and he is the man ae. for the past year I’ve had companions who have been younger than me or where I’ve been senior companion having to do everything you know and getting here being with him its been crackup as. being zone leaders we have to share our responsibility and its way different to being district leader because as district leader you do everything yourself. what every you want to teach, plan and do you do on your own and all the responsibility falls on you...so it’s been way weird, a huge as change and different challenges and experiences that we’ve been having. we both have a year and a half in the mission and it’s been funny as trying to share our responsibility you know, sharing our time of teaching, planning and just doing the work, sharing our ideas and coming to an agreement of what it is we want to do...it’s been way fun, having a great as time ae....um in these 7 days I’ve learnt so much from him....it’s like I’ve learnt from him what he’s learnt in his whole year and a half of being a missionary and now it’s like I’ve learnt 3 years worth of truths. For real’s being with him has opened my eyes to a new aspect of the work, new vision of teachings, and i just feel so much more powerful and blessed. we get along great as and just having the time of my life. Umm, as for our responsibilities, it’s a whole nether world. We are busy all the time. For real’s I’ve never been so tired in my whole entire life. There’s so many things we need to worry about and to do. We teach a class to 20 other missionaries on Tuesdays which is hard as. to excite, elevate, inspire and to train all at the same time is tough ae, to help missionaries who don’t want help, to teach missionaries who don’t want to be taught and who don’t want to learn and help elders and sisters work when they don’t even want to be here is hard as! Was way overwhelming. this past Tuesday when we got together for the first time we had to interview all the elders and sister individually and it was an eye opener. So much responsibility ae. was way edifying getting to know most of the elders and to feel there love and passions that they have for the work...made me so happy and motivated me when i feel of each ones love that they have for the lord...and it was sad as having to talk with those who really didn’t have the vision for why they are here.....had a few interviews with elders and sisters that were soooo sad. misionaries who are sad, mad, discouraged, and disappointed. Tried my best to love, help, and teach them. So real the work of satan and how he tries so hard to stop this work....but yeah i felt way overwhelmed ae. lol as well every day we need to call and verify how everyone is doing and fix problems that always exist within companionships, with homes, and with investigators and it’s just crazy...on top of it we got to do our own thing you know. so yeah that’s just how it’s been. For me family I’m just going to be straight up and tell you how it was for me this week.... i got here way scared. i really don’t know why but i just got here feeling way inadequate, which really affected my faith and confidence in myself and in the lord. For real’s last Monday had to have been the worst day of my whole entire life. i had never felt so down before. Started to get homesick, and unconsciously fall right back into things that temporarily comforted me, things that temporally satisfied my happiness and made me feel good in that moment. Woke up Tuesday and things were worse. For real’s I was still scared. In my studies that morning i realized that i was lacking confidence, and trust in the lord. Decided to pray and i just poured out my heart ae. Humbled myself and promised the lord id be obedient and do everything and anything he wanted me to do. Family I’ve had the most blessed week in my whole entire mission and more than anything I’m happy with myself and confident in what I’ve been called to do. I’ve never been so obedient and so indulged in something as much as i am now and it really has brought me true happiness. i know the lord lives. i know that when we put our trust in him, in spite of our inadequacy he makes the difference. i know that he is the only source of true happiness. That when we complete with him comes true satisfaction. For real’s family our week was of the chain.....miracles every single day and I’ve never seen the work so fruitful before. We have 16 people with baptismal dates!!! 3 baptisms coming up this Sunday and we find a new person every single day to teach! i know that every blessing we receive comes through our obedience to the law which its predicated upon! family i love this work and these people I’ve been called to teach. i love you guys too i guess...haha no for real’s. I’m so very grateful for all that you guys do for me. Love you so much family. Keep going hard this week and represent well. Second wind doitz! but gots to go whanau send my love to gramz and the and my lil cuzzies from da big island, but until next week my beautiful family, with all my love,
Elder kanahele kaka

HEY FAMILY!

okay so i know that I’ve never done this before but i can’t write you guys this week...jacked up ae....lol well quick update. i was called last night by president to be a new zone leader.!!!!!! crappnig my pants big time.... my comp is named elder Anderson and yeah we just got here and the rule is that we gotta be done by five and its 4;53! Sorry family. but im happy as....actually nervous as crap....gonna be a great experience tho.....have to be obedient hard core now!!!! yikes!!! lol na but the lord blesses us when we obey him. Hard as leaving my last sector! for real’s was a real surprise....went and said bye to all my members but yeah love the mission so much...honestly have truly come to love these people here, but i love you family so much keep going hard in all that you’re doing. Rip em bah! but gtg until next week. love you famz!
actually were able to stay here a lil bit longer! yeah....

okay so really quickly family, good as to hear from you guys.....such a great comfort, and strength for me here knowing that my family is supporting me ae.....not to many elders who are blessed like me to have a family like you guys, actually there’s none! but straight up true dad.....started together, finished together!!!! shot bro. love you guys hard ae.....thanks for everything ae dad....for real’s bro you and mum have been the most bomb parents ever bro.....parenting in today’s world is not a easy thing and you guys have been awesome bro. really you and mum are my best friends and i love you guys so much ae. Throughout my life I’ve been faced with a lot of temptation but always chose to do what’s right for the love that you guys have had for us.... i loved you guys so much that i never was interested in doing anything that wouldnt make you guys happy. Just know bro that i strive daily ae to represent bro..but yeah bro love you guys heaps ae...but yeah family i am now a zone leader in the zone called, quiliqura! there’s twenty elders and five sisters here who we over see, teach, and serve. I’m nervous as ae...never felt so inadequate before. Excited as tho to learn and serve. Now’s the time more than ever to trust more in the lord. It was hard saying bye to elder payne....was a great companion. in spite of all our differences, i don’t think I’ve learnt more from any other person here on the mission other than him. Straight up being with him changed my life. ah....we were having crazy success recently too...for real’s got 4 sure baptisms coming up in this month but now 2 other missionaries get to enjoy them. Elder payne also left the sector! hahaha he was mad about that too.....we sung by too arturo and his family and it was so sad saying bye to them....we got there and they were all balling! straight up was way hard....this past fast Sunday they all got up and bore there testimonies. Family sitting there it hit me really how especial the calling is, to be a missionary. Within the space of only three months this family’s lives have changed. i felt so grateful to the lord in that moment for having been able to be a tool in his hands in helping this family know of this gospel. Something that i will never forget. the spirit was so strong as they all stood up one by one from the father to the littlest child of 4 years old testifying of the things that they know are true. They were real short and simple but one of the memories that i will cherish forever. family i love this work so much ae.... i don’t even know where to begin or even how to explain it but i love and am and will ever be grateful for these two years. God lives, Jesus is the truth, this is his gospel, and the way has been prepared. This is it. We have it all. there’s nothing else that we need to do or know, but to follow him. Jesus is the one, the only redeemer and savior of the world. May we strive to be more like him each day. i love you all family.... i know that this church is true with all my heart, and soul. No doubt about it. So grateful for all that you guys have done for me...keep going hard. Love and take care of one another. Send my love to all the famz. but family love you guys. got a bunch of pics and vids but ill send them next week okay. gauranzz next week ba. but until then. with all my love,
Elder kanahele kaka

Megans Graduation Haka

Aloha Ohana!

kia ora you black maoris!!!! how’s my beautiful family doing today??? awesome as letter man...honest, a great strength to me to continue pressing forward... mum you’ve always been a great example of setting your mind to something and getting it done, no matter the circumstances....proud as of you ae....not easy to work, have a family, and on top of it get good grades...shot mum!! and ash bro I’m all good ae....not like dad and counting my days bro so no worries....focused as ae, really don’t want to end so everyday i take advantage as much as i can to learn and grow....lol and hori bro good to know you learning from my mistakes bro....honestly bro i was an idiot before the mission....had all my priorities mixed up and i was young and dumb as heck. girls are not the way to go before the mission bro....honestly in our day and time as missionaries bro our calling is more important than you think.... peoples salvation depend on us bro, and they deserve the best teachers and representatives that there are, especially in our world that we live in today. Missionary work requires more now than ever bro, more spirit, more obedience, more well prepared missionaries. We need to be top notch authorized, spirit guided, powerful massagers of Christ. These people deserve and need the best bro, and it’s our responsibility to prepare ourselves to be the best.. Learn and be smarter than i was....i love and want the best for you bro...I’m actually embarrassed hard of the things that i did before the mission and the way i came here..Unprepared and just had no idea...so decide now bro...lol io don’t explain it!!! lol but yeah can’t believe that lias already got banquets and all!!!! lol omg! You look so beautiful lia!!!! for reals ba you sexy dog! hahaha just be a good girl ae lia. But yeah family for me I’m doing good as....me and my companion are getting along better.. learning and growing hard together. i continue to learn heaps and heaps each day...i honestly wow at the things that i learn and am able to recognize and acknowledge more and more each day of the importance of obedience, diligence, patience, charity, hope, and virtue. far as from being perfect, but at least I’m on the right track. This week we have been able to see the lords hand in this work....um got to church yesterday and a member came up to us and told us that she wants us to teach her friend cuz she wants to get baptized!!! Mean ae, as well our investigator christian he is 15 years, is progressing. um we haven’t been able to talk to the mum and we need to ask her for permission to baptize her son and apparently she’s a bit feisty! So excited as for that..lol other than that were trying to find new ways and new things we can do to find more people...I had a mean as spiritual experience this past week....so one night we were planning for the following day and we acknowledge that our biggest need at that moment was to find more investigators. As we analyzed our need and our efforts in trying to find more people we noticed an area in which we needed to improve a little to be better. We noticed we needed to have more edified studies to better prepare ourselves to be able to preach, expound, and better exhort others to come unto Christ. as missionaries at times we just fall in to routines and the first thing that suffers is the efficiency and effectiveness of a missionaries study. so the next day, we got up on time, did our exercises on time, and started studying right on the hour, started our comp study right on time, and our language study right on time and we had a great morning. Studied for the needs of the people in which we were going to teach, our own needs and what we need to do to be more effective missionaries and it was just a great morning....before we left the house we ran over our planes and goals and were set on finding someone!!!! we had did our part, we strived to do all we could, and before leaving just asked the lord to work through us to find and recognize those ready to receive the gospel....we left the house and we just went nutz! talked to every single person we saw...didn’t matter if we had already talked to them, old grannies to little kids we just poured our whole soul out to everybody!!!! lol it was 830 at night, rainy and cold and we hadn’t found nobody!!!!! not one single person. we turned down a road i looked at my companion and he was tired, frustrated, and you could just tell wasted ae....we arrived at a door and as the lady came out i told him,,, Payne this is the one bro.....family it was one of the most spiritual experiences that i have had my whole entire mission. as this lady came out i honestly did nothing but my mouth just started to move, i said things that I’ve never said, the spirit just filled my mouth with the exact things that this lady needed to hear. i don’t even remember what i said and my companion noted that it wasn’t me speaking lol ..But in that very moment we were all moved by the spirit...we knew she had felt it because we had felt it. we set an appointment for tomorrow and hope that everything goes well....but family i know this is the lords work and that he is bound to complete when we do what he say.....he’s bound, has no choice but to bless us when we do our part and this is what i was able to see this day in the rain at this ladies porch. I did my part, prepared myself, and god blessed me with the words necessary to open and touch this ladies heart... was a mean as experience. But yeah that’s us ae...i love this gospel and there’s really no going back. peter, James, and john, saw Jesus Christ, witnessed his miracle, saw in person his true power and after his death returned and went back to their boats and again started to fish. family i really can’t go home after everything that i have experienced here in the mission, after seeing miracles, and witnessing his true power to only RETURN and fish, to only return and do what i was doing before. there’s really no going back....Jesus has called us to be fishers of men!!!! not a part time calling or something temporal but to be and live as a missionary forever! i love this work, truly have learnt my earthly purpose. i love our savior and will strive each and every day to be like him...family i love you guys so much. Keep going hard and represent...love one another and strive to better yourselves each day...send my love to all the fams and especially grams. but i gots to go whanau, until next week my beautiful family, with all my love

Elder kanahele kaka

WHATS UP FAMILY!!!

Awesome day ae yesterday! lol it was sooooo good to talk to you guys for real’s...i miss you all so much....just being able to see you all and hear from all of you made my day. Yesterday i realized that if anything I’ve really come to love and appreciate all of you more....we have been so blessed with so many things but with the most important- a family who loves and cares for one another....not something you can find just any where here in our world and I’m just so very grateful to have been one of those very few blessed..Every body’s big and growing up.....ash your huge now, lilia you a pretty swan and george bro, how’d you get on the bus bro???? that’s three mean...... did they tell you first that they were going to put it on or what??? Did you guys have photo shoot? Just mean though bro.....looking good to bro in all your pics... but ye mum and dad you guys look good as..gramz too!! it was hard as trying to get focused again last night but all good today...right back into the swing of things so sweet as....6 months left!!!! a very scary thought...i really can’t imagine how my life would be if i did not come on a mission.....i feel so blessed to have had this opportunity to come here and learn of and know our savior Jesus Christ....has marked and changed my life...i feel much more safe and secure with my life now knowing what i now need to do and more importantly how to be in spite of what happens to one day return to the presence of our heavenly father. this is the way and there is no other by which we can return to him without the atonement of our savior Jesus Christ, that thru this we can repent to receive and maintain the gift of the holy ghost to receive guidance and power to change our very natures to one day be perfect! i know with no doubt family that this gospel is real! And that it is true. i love you ae family. thanks for all that you guys do to support me out here serving the lord....it sure has been a great learning experience for all of us ae...let’s all represent hard. but yeah family not much to say to yous other than that....let’s have a good week this week and well be hearing from each other next week ae...take care of each other and love one another. Send my love to everyone. With all my love my beautiful family,

Elder kanahele kaká..

¿Que tal Familia?

hello my beautiful family!!!! man how good it is to hear from you guys...awesome letter family...i miss you guys heaps ae...but there’s some quick news that i need you all to know....its mother’s day this Sunday and we get to talk!!!! yeyahhh!!!! and we actually got permission to skype if we can...yeyah!!! And i found a member who has a lap top and all the gears to do it so we can skype!!! mean ae...the only junk thing is that you guys are going to have to miss church! bahahaha but this is what i want to do....i want you guys to call me first next Sunday at nine in the morning your time....it will be 3 oclock here and i want you to call this number.....56 2 8138004 and we can talk from 3 till 4 then when my companion talks we can skype after! sweet?? i will have to make a skype acount which i will and i will send you all that info before sunday or if not when you call....so yeah....my last call home!! but yeah...so make sure you buy a phone card, and make sure the computer and internet and everything is working so Sunday we don’t have problems!!!! lol ....fa time has flown by so quick! Before i know it I’m out! but bro if you can send heaps of pop tarts and heaps of cake mix!!! Straight up and only yellow cake mix with the chocolate and white icings!!! lol that’s all ae! Thanks family...um there was an outlet sale the other week on clothing and there was a lot of cheap stuff so i spent a lil bit of moneys!!! sorry bout it...hahaha gotta get me some gears for when i get back!! lol and dad bro you dumb bugger bro??? hahaha good stuff bro...fa its gotta be crackup to see you there.....good thing you’re not in the bishopric anymore!! lol but family i can’t believe how fast time is flying....elder rosenlof..one of my companions that i had, has been home for ten months already!!! hahaha he wrote me today and it was awesome as to hear from him and how he’s doing....thinking back to when i was with him till now seems like a blink of the eye but i can really see the progress that i have been able to make....he asked me if i learnt how to speak Spanish yet and i was just cracking up....lol that’s how long ago it was tho...i couldn’t even speak when i was with him...and now i am the man!! lol but for me this past week family I’ve been good as ae..you know in the mission you run into a lot of problems and you get to a point where you think you’ve gone thru it all and for me at least i thought that i had encountered all of the problems that i missionary could encounter till i got to this sector!!!! lol for real’s before i got here I’ve had to deal with problems with members, ward issues, missionary issues, health issues, and when i got here it’s just a whole other ball game....imma let you all know what my situation is right now and the opportunities that god has blessed me with to learn and grow....so the ward that i am in has to be the most apostasy ward that there is! for real’s there’s over 1000 inactive members and there’s no surprise why....everybody in the chapel are good people but everything is just so drama...the problem that I’ve got that I’ve never had to deal with before will blow you guys away...so check this.....not trying to brag or anything but this is true story stuff and its really real...and it’s what I’m going thru...so before i got here there was straight up loser missionaries here for the longest time!!! for like almost a year and i think that’s why i was called to this ward to help it you know.....so elder kanahele gets here, he’s from Hawaii, he’s a cool and funny guy, talented, handsome, and just everyone wants to be around him right.....me being only human with one body can only do so much you know....as i missionary i am called here to preach the gospel of repentance and baptism to all those who DONT have the gospel. I’ve been a missionary for a long time and i know how to find and have success here in the field....so striving to be diligent and faithful to fulfill my calling i do what i know is most efficient and effective way to work....and within seven weeks we´ve been able to baptize a full family of 6, one of their friends, and re activate a family and baptize their youngest daughter! Blessings from our heavenly father as me and my companion have diligently, put our trust in him. straight up success you know... so as we have been working hard preaching the gospel... members have gotten mad at me for not visiting them....hahaha crackup ae...weekly we will visit at least every active member once!!! and apparently it’s not enough... for real’s family members get mad at me because they want me to come over all the time and waste hours in their house....like doing things that have nothing to do with missionary work yet with the gospel, watch movies, and just all kinds of stupid stuff that the other missionaries used to do...and i tell them that we can’t you know and because of that they don’t like us...and it’s gotten so bad that they make up lies about us and things that we do to try get us in trouble...bishop called us into his office yesterday and just told us all these kinds of lies that these members are telling him about us and its un believable....for real’s its truly been a test of humility, faith, and patience and something that i never ever thought I’d have to go thru here on the mission....but i have learnt and grown from it.....about three weeks ago a member was talking crap about our new converts kids and that they are so irreverent during sacrament and the new convert mum got mad and told us about it....and in the lesson we had with them i told her to not worry about it and don’t let it affect you and your desires to follow Christ to one day return to him!!! she later explain that what i had told her that day was what helped her to not be offended and to keep strong in following our savior Jesus Christ...... so yesterday we were in there house sharing with them and she noticed that something was bothering me and as i told her what was going on she softly repeated to me those same words of comfort....what greater experience of humility than that....i was being taught by my own convert an eternal principal! She understood the importance of enduring no matter what happens and taught me more in depth of this principle through her example. i know that struggles are given to us to help us grow...and as we look at them as such and humble and submit ourselves to do the things that god wants us to do, we will learn and grow. i love it here ae family...small kine stress and dramas but the things that i continue to learn each day, week, and month are priceless and will serve me for a lifetime... i know Jesus lives and thru him we can be purified. i know that as we make the effort, put forth the work that he compensates for what we lack as humans and cleans us of our faults. I’m so very grateful for this knowledge and strive daily to take advantage of it to better myself.....family i love you more than anything in this world. mum, dad, george, ash, and lia....go hard and strive to be better each day.... love you guys hard...I’m doing good don’t worry about me,,,excited as to talk to yous this week! but i gotta go, send my love to gramz. Until next week my beautiful family! with all my love,

Elder kanahele kaka