Whats up family!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!!!!!! dang 41 ae...whoooo old fut!!! bahahaha na just jokes lol...happy birthday for reals mum...still fine as!!! 41 and beautiful as ever!! i miss you so much and want you to know that i was thinking about you a lot yesterday mum..I love you heaps ae and so grateful for all that you have done and continue to do for me....the best ae..straight up..muchisimo gracia mamita!!! Sounds like had a mean as week....lol such surf bums you guys!!! hahaha crackup...but yeah i miss it ae...if anything it’s just spending time with you guys as a family..Can’t wait to be able to do it again. but yeah as for me it’s been along stressful week!!! lol so my companions name is ty peck....hes from washington and hes a cool as dude...was in a rock band before he came out playing the drums so he’s like one of those rockster punk guys hahahaha always tapping a beat crackup as if anything. We get along good as tho....cool as fella but yeah got him from the mission home and we didn’t even know how to get home!!!! bahahahaha crackup ae....lol i almost started crying BAHAHAHA na jokes...so that you know i didn’t ask George and start crying that day we got lost in melville!!! bahaha but yeah for real’s i didn’t know how to get to the house cause I’ve never been there and we were all over the place trying to find it....took us forever but finally got there and family our sector is straight up ghetto...if you thought my other sector was ghetto...this sector is 100 times worse!!! for real’s...i feel so bad for my comp having to start here...there’s so many gangsta dudes here and stuff and cause i pass for a latino they really don’t give me crap but they yell and do all kinds of crap to my comp....i get upset so much but i can’t do anything ae have to be a good example to my comp and plus I’m a missionary lol ...quick story..one night i think it was Thursday we were coming back from a members house and there were four of us missionaries....cuz there’s four of us who live in the house... and the area is really dangerous...like street fires and just straight up new York Bronx styles but there was a group of like 18 drunk guys who were doing drugs smoking and all that crap that we passed and we were just quite you know minding our own business and one of them yelled something at us and we didn’t give him the slightest attention...then out of nowhere someone thru a huge as beer can and hit my comp right in the head!!! lol its funny now that we talk about it but i was so ticked ae....straight up ae i turned around grabbed the can and took off to the group of drunk helmets and elder roth one of the other missionaries just grabbed me and pretty much held me to try calm me down...lol he’s a big boy too .so i couldn’t get away lol but he ..was state champ wrestler 189 pound weight class in washington and was 3rd in nationals in 08 lol so he pretty much just beasted me ae telling me to calm down and all.... felt bad for my comp if anything.....i think my anger temper in the mission just has gotten worst...lol na but the very next day some ghetto punk threw a rock and hit my comp again....was hard as..and hit him in the back...and later on that day we were entering in some apartment buildings and a dude let his dogs out on us and started attacking us!!!!! full on bitting and all...ripped up my comps pants!!! lol so yeah all kinds of crap going down ae...just gotta be careful...im sweet as but if anything just worried for my comp....tall as pakeha dude. with the most fresh spanish accent and its practically like he’s got a sign on his head saying here I am, hurt me please!!!! lol its funny but it’s the truth....it’s been a crazy week ae...especially for a new missionary but if anything i have learnt so much from him....idk what it is about new missionaries but they are so special ae....i can’t think of any other crappier week that a new missionary could have than this...plus the fact that he can’t talk, he can’t understand nothing , and just being in a country that is so foreign to him, but he’s got an attitude that’s gonna do him good for the rest of his life....he’s the man ae...not going to lie but i think im learning more from him than he is from me...I’ve felt so bad for him lately but he just laughs at everything and just says for something the lord has me here and just starts laughing again....cool as fella man...but yeah the work has been really slow....got to a sector where the missionaries before just pretty much killed....we don’t have any investigators (well we didn’t, gotta share that miracle with you) and even all the members hated them so it’s been hard as working here ae....but yeah our miracle is just that....we get here with nothing right....nobody to teach...no members not even recent converts nothing...so we just started working......doing everything possible to help us find someone...and nothing!!!! bahahaha getting doors slammed on us always...and just no success at all...then Wednesday elder snider called me from my last sector and told me...ae elder some bad news, hugo(our investigator from the english class) has moved homes and we won’t be able to teach him...it was pretty crappy hearing that from him, cuz we had found him you know and taught him and all, but then i asked him .....did he tell you where he’s moving???....he told me...well, yeah but i don’t know where it is, he gave me his address tho....then i asked him for it....and he gave it to me and family...you wouldn’t even believe it....he moved from my old sector right into the sector where I’m at right now!!!! bahahahaha crackup ae....so he’s the only investigator we have!!!! me and my comp were able to teach him this week in our new chapel and had a tour with him there and we ended with a lesson with him in the baptismal font and it was soooooooo powerful...we had him kneel down then and there in the font and ask god to see if he should be baptized....and he did and it was sooo special...I’ve never felt the spirit so strong than in that very moment...nothing was needed to be said cuz you could just feel it...was mean as ae...so he´ll be getting baptized on the 28th of November.....so yeah that was our week ae....a lot of crappy things happened but I’ve learnt some of the most important things ever in this past week....really grateful for my comp and his energy and faith...don’t have nothing but happier than ever to be here in the field serving our heavenly father....I’m so happy to be here and to be a representative of our savior Jesus Christ....i know that he lives. His atonement is real and allows us to better ourselves each day..thank you family for all that you do...i love you guys so much...you are my life...keep being good examples...mum happy birthday....love you heaps mum...dad love you to bro.. miss you ae....my best friend bro...Keep the family strong bro...George, I’m so proud of you bro...Keep going hard. Represent hard my brother....ash you´ll make the team bro...Just go hard bro...love and take care of lia.....lia i love you so much...keep being a good girl...you are so special lia so let others feel it through your love for them....i miss you so much...send my love to grandma...family I’m not perfect..but i wake up every day trying to be...I’m representing the best i can...i love you all so very much. Keep going hard in all that you do..And thank you all for everything...love you all so very much...but i gotta go...until next week fam... with all my love,

Elder kanahele kaka

sup bullehs!???

whats up family!!! fa shot hard ae for the letter for reals it was a good one.....crackup as hearing about the happs and everything and whats going down...funny as man...I feel so bad for Kahuku, but yeah you all sound great...alot of things happening ae...thats the secret...always keep busy...but yeah soory about the chat sesh mum....i just needed to ask a few things...and ye wont be a habit but im not going to lie it was worth it ae pops hahaha good times man....i miss you guys heaps ae...everysingle one of you...like you said george we are so grateful for the family that we have...the love that we have for eachother is money ba!!! lol but yeah lia its been one whole long as year!!! lol one more left!! bahahah na times been flying actually and ive learnt so much....but yeah family i feel bad but i dont have much time to write you guys today...because?? i will explain.....so today is transfer day and we get our information for our transfers the night berfore or last night (sunday) and the office calls us and lets us know whats going down...so it was like 1:30 in the morning and the white horse went a giddy up and get a little bid tired and had a had a slep!!! bahahah but yeah we waited up all night till one thirty in the morning when we finally got our call...so yeah for this transfer theres alot of stuff i´ll be doing.....first of all i´ll be training!!! bahahaha crackup....i get a fresh missionary from the mtc who does not know a lick of spanish and he´ll be my comp...i still dont know who he is but i´ll have to go get him in a bit from presidents house...but it just seems like yesterday when i was getting trained by my trainer and now its the whole opposite way around....nervous as ae..not going to lie...cuz its really rare that someone with my time gets to train...and it gets even better....im getting sent to a new sector that i dont even know....dont know where the chapell is let a lone the very house in which we live so i´ll be starting from scratch with a new bee, AND im still district leader but this time theres 6 of us!!!! fa....i was stressed hard when i got the news last night but like you said pops god does not begin by asking our ability but our availability... and i know that as i show him my dependability he will increase my capability....just what i needed to hear pops so thanks ae bro...its impossible to progress with out oppostion right?? just gotta practice what i preach so i´ll let you guys know how it goes with that...but yeah after the call they told me i had to pack up then and there and be out of the house by 700am so i started packing and i have so much stuff...i have know idea where it all camed from but i have a butt load of stuff....so i just packed it all up and before i knew it my alarm rang to wake up at 6....crackup ae... 0 hours of sleep last night and im hanging hard but gotta be energetic for my new comp.,..a trainer makes or breaks his entreness mission so im happy i have such a responsablity....but yeah all day yesterday i had the vibes that i was going to get transfered....6 months in the same sector is alot of time and i felt it so i went by to say bye to all my familys and it was so hard ae family...i dont know why or how but it killed me....it was like saying bye to you guys at the airportt when i left if worse....hahaha people crying like babies and it was hard for me to realize that i was out....i started thinking about when i have to say good bye at the end...and idk and cant see myself doing it...chiles just become my home ae and the people are my family. Real people that i have come to love with all my heart..people ive come to care about more than myself..people ive been able to help and people who´ve ive seen apply simple gospel doctrines and become happy...i love this place so much and so ever greatful for the opportunity that i have each day to help others come unto our savior jesus christ....im gonna miss it but i´ll never forget my great learning and growing experience in san francisco....saying bye to my comp was even harder....we had such a good relationship and if anything strengthened my testimony in the importance of unity....united we stand divided we fall...and even tho we had some rough times there where nobody wanted to listen to us..we still were able to somehow work miracles...so yeah was hard as saying bye to that ounce...but yeah thats us...this hugo guys gonna get baptized which is truly a great blessing but i just wont be there to see it so that kinda sucks but yeah the fruits of our labor. Excited as ae...little bit nervous but pumped more than anything....tired as too...lol atleast i´ll sleep good tho tonight....but yeah so much for here the weather is acting up big time..one day its like 97 degress then the very next morning its pooring down rain..snow on the mountain tops and a big wopping 20 freezing degres..i hate it hard..but all g... but yeah thats me ae...
if anything just wanted to thankyou guys for all that you do for your examples and constant effort to be better...i feel it as i read your letters and theres nothing better for a missionary than to know that his family are living examples of the things he teaches...so thank you guys for everything... mum and dad i love you guys so much...im doing my best to better myself each day...dont worry about anything k...my christmas shoppings has been put on hold due to all this crap that is going down but i will send something...and something that you all will like so no worries ba...hori boy...im so proud of you bro....such a good example dog....keep being a good boy bro and i know this is random but read the book of mormon cover to cover before your mission bro and pray to know of its truthfullnes. your testimony is the greatest tool that missionary has so strive to strengthen it...take care of your lil ones for me bro... Send me some clips of you doing fire knife..still spining or what??? see how good you are lol...but yeah bro love and miss you heaps...ash!! sole football done already??? dang has flown not going to lie...well doesnt surprise me that every letter that ive got for the past few months talk about how good you are at everything...how you start all your football games and how you make all the winning tackles....good story, sole WINNER!!!! lol na but for reals bro your a talented kidd dog...always strive to better your talents and share thhem...you going be one killa misionary dog...but more than anything i love you my brother...miss you hard ae....glad to hear that your still going out with tui!!! lol has his feet got any bigger??? stupid gumboot!!lol na bro sorry to dis you friend bro...but seriously homie be a good boy and watch over your sister in school ya....i love you so much bro..represent the name hard my brother...lia!!!! how you doing girl??? so ive got a few earings but i have no idea what im doing when im buying them lol....what makes things worse is that everybody thinks im gay when i buy them...lol give rats. Things i do for those i love!! lol..but no worries there cool as...so i´ll buy heaps kay and send em home to you and mum...but i miss you heaps ae lia...hope your being a good girl...remember always who you are and modesty is a life time goal ya!? lol not just for this month hahahahah na just giving you a hard time but i love you so much lia...send my love to grandma and the famz...whts up with mana??? thinking about a mission or what??? ya but i gotta bounce family...i love you guys so much....keep being strong and well talk next week...with all my love,

Elder kanahele kaka

Aloha family!!

Thanks for the letter ae awesome as....well i couldnt write you in the morning cuz we had to go do some shopping for our house and the store that we needed to get to closed early cuz today is a holiday...but we just got back now and thought id write you guys....sounds like everything is still going good im glad that you all are striving each day be better...i did get grandmas box and thanked her for that one....but yeah pretty cool experience ae with my english class ae...didnt know i taught english ae....well not to brag or anything but im really good with my spanish and english gramatics and translating one to the other....lol i dont know how to explain it but i understand the mechanics and am able to hold my own well enough to teach it you know....lol but yeah pops sole i know why the lord sent me here to a foreign country cuz he knew that i wouldnt be able to control my english....for reals this past week we´ve had heaps of random fellas bro just swear, and say all kinds of crap at us....a old fellah the other day was just swearing the worst words at us bro and i got angry you know but as soon as my temper heated i couldnt think of anything in spanish bro...bahahahaha couldnt respond in a way where hed understand!! bahahaha happens all the time bro....lol so i crackup hard and always think fa thats why i got sent here....but yeah we had another hard as week....with this new guy hugo everythings going good....we´ve been teaching him and hes been a miracle from god....does all his commitments and yesterday in our english class he asked me if he could have a book of mormon in english to be able to read it in its original form. cool as ae....were going to try baptize this week but we´ll see....we had a strong as lesson with him about the restauration and we asked him to read the book of mormon and to pray if joseph smith is a prophet...so the very next day we met with him i asked him....so hugo how was your prayer last night........my man was having a hard time talking but told us that after he had read what we had left him and prayed he couldnt go to sleep.. he laid there and laid there and just couldnt go to sleep....he said that he felt that he had something empty that needed to be satisfied, a fire that was burning with in him that wouldnt just leave him alone and he said he woke up and started reading again from the beginning. my man read all night till our lesson the very next day in the morning....we had our lesson and he just told us..this book is true....so that means that joseph smith is a prophet!!! hes an investigator of gold ae.....its like hes just soaking everything in like its been something hes been waiting for his whole life....gets to church before us, reads more than he needs to...almost done actually with the book of mormon, has dropped drinking coffe and tea, calls us to tell us what hes learnt about and all....lol crackup ae... but just if anything has really made my testimony of the book of mormon that much stronger....its the key stone of our religion...everything we believe in is based on that if this book is true or not....and as people come to form their own testimonies on its truthfulness come to know that what we share is true....being able to see hugo gain his own testimony of the book of mormon has made me so grateful for the opportunity that we have to have this knowledge. this direction that helps us know what we need to do to one day return to our father in heaven...we need to take advantage of what we have...today we went to a swap meet kind of thing too on the way home to look for a few things and it was huge!!!! like four times bigger than the swap meet in pearl ridge, and there were so many things there...for reals everything you could ever think of was there...well while me and my comp were walking down the one of the isles i saw a book of mormon!!! lol i stood there for a while and told my comp....little do all these people know but that book is the thing of most value here in this market.... beyond earthly worth and it just killed me to see people walk by it because they just dont know....and its true...the book of mormon teaches the priniciples and ordinances needed for us to know to recieve salvation...not the clothes that were being sold by the vender on the left or the shoes and glasses that were being sold on the right but that very book....if anything it made me more keen to do the work.....as a missionary i have the opportunity each and everyday to share of its truthfulness and theres no doubt in my mind or heart that its true....joseph smith was the prophet who opened this dispensation and translated this book by the power of god.... true conversion only comes by reading it daily and asking god if its true...so family i hope that we can put this into practice and be readily equipped to testify of its truthfullness.... thanks ae mum and dad...i know i wasnt that keen in seminary but as we strived to read them thru out my high school years i was able to establish my own testimony and only continue to strengthen it each day.i love you guys heaps ae....mum and dad....thanks for all that you do...i make a year soon...crackup ae....times flying and i try to better myselft daily....keep going hard in all that you do...know that im making you guys proud..keep going hard mum in school and work you get em girl...send my love to gramz ya.....dad sole you the man bro....awesome to hear that you still supporting mum in the things that she likes to do even tho you get sand in your undies!!! bahahaha love hard ae ....you my best friend ae bro. hori boy....sole glad to hear that your being a good boy bro....keep going hard bro....everybody is looking at you bro and you have that ablitiy to just naturally attract attention so be a good example bro...cultivate every opportunity that you get to grow bro...i love you bro...miss you hard ae...watch over the kids bro and constantly let them know that you love them...ash sole you growing up hard ae bro...sounds like you the man bro...darrel moe wrote me a letter and mentioned how well yourve been doing in football....not surprised bro....you got it all bro..just need to always push yourself to better those talents in that you have....be kind and loving to everybody bro...watch over your sister at school and dont let anything happen to her....i love you so much ash...send me a crackup line if you can ya you ounce.... lia!!! dang you growing up girl!!! i hope your being a good girl...lol i know you are just always remember who you are...i miss you heaps ae lia....im going to start christmas shopping so tell me what you want ya so i can buy it in time to send off...k...and no shame tell me what ever you want...send my love to gramz to yeah miss you heaps and love you even more....but yeah family hope everything is good....this is our last week before the end of our transfer. i think im out lol but i dont know..i love this place so its going to be hard to leave....but yeah the same old same old. my comp found 14 bucks the other day in a drain and we got it out with a piece of wire...as we were taking it out our bishop came by and was like....what are my elders doing here sitting on the side of the road...lol i told him wait and youll see....three seconds later my comp pulled up a ten dollar note....lol they started busting up laughing.....and then my comp pulled up a four dollar note and they just had a mean laugh...told us we had to go pay tithing on it but we actually took it to the member lady who gave us the wire to pull it out....we had a lesson with her right before we found the money and shes been having a hard as time economically and was balling and all so we gave the money to her....14 bucks here is heaps to....like 2 weeks of food so she was greatful as....but yeah thats about it ae family.. i actually gotta bounce but just wanted to let you all know how much i love you...keep going hard in all that you do....with all my love.

Elder kanahele kaka

hey family!!

what a great letter family...thank you guys so much...i could really feel your presence with me as i read it...alot of things happening ae....thats the only way to do things you fellas...keep busy and we´ll be all good....but yeha thanks for the package family i´ll be keeping an eye out for it...cant wait to get the usbs ae...thats the winner ba!!!! LOL but sounds like you guys had a great temple experience....lol i cant imagine dads...i dont knows!!! lol crackup hard...but im so glad that you guys had the opportunity to go thru as a family...ive really missed it ae....out here in the mission we never get to go through so we are so blessed to have one right in our mist...we just need to take advantage of it.....we are so blessed family...i realize it day after day in how much we really have...we have a home, a car, live in a good community, we have the basics, a family the gospel so many things that the lord has blessed us with that so many other people need and are dying for....we need to always give thanks for all that we have.....im so grateful for everything. but hori boy...sole gotta give a spiritual thought??? bro thats crackup bro...im gonna tell you straight up bro..share what you know bro, whats in your heart, what you feel that everyone needs to hear...elder niel anderson, said something that has always helped me here in the mission bro he said, "we dont know everything but we know enough." so true my brother...im a living testament of this bro...im not smart at all, i dont speak the best spanish, i dont even know the scriptures that well but what i DO know bro is enough...i know that our saviour lives, that this is his gospel and its true. came with a testimony and have only stregthened it my brother...but thats the secret bro is that what every you share, speak from your heart about the things that you know to be true....idk if that helps bro...bahahaha sorry bout it....okay well i´ll give you something....a few weeks ago i had an interview with pres. and he told me something bro that i will never for get...so you can use this for your thought....but he said, "the biggest problems for missionaries is that they know what they need to do, but they just dont do it."....very short but very true....as missionaries we tend to fall in to a routine and just go threw the motions at times cuz we do the same thing every single day....and when we do this we dont recieve all the blessings that the lord has for us....you can liken that bro unto anything and everything....unto us as members of the church, and unto dancers there at pcc...the pcc is a great mission tool in helping many of our brothers and sister around the world come to feel of the savior jesus christ...as dancers you guys have a great priviledge EVERY single day in helping these people feel what we feel from living the gosple...but like im sure as for missionaries you guys tend to fall into a routine and end up not doing the things you guys know you should be doing...and when this happens bro you guys dont recieve the fullness of the blessings that the lord has for you there at the center..then you can expound on it with more commentaries or a scripture if you want...i always use this with the members and share 2 nep 31:20 that says that we need to press foward with a steadfastness in christ or mosiah 2:41 that talks about those who hold out faithful are blessed in all things....but yeah bro just talk from your heart cuz if you dont nothing really matters...go hard bro...

but yeah family, ive been good as ae...hahahaha a very hard week but things are coming around lil by little...lol for us were doing alrite...worked hard all week to find somebody...knocked over 400 doors and pretty much got stached 400 times as well bahahaha...hard as week ae...my comp got a rock thrown at him in his back....we looked back and didnt see anybody..we think that somebody threw it from there house window....i was so mad ae dont even know...my comp had to calm me down again bahahaha irritz the chileans some times...but yeah all week we pretty much slogged our guts knocking doors, going over to members house and doing service and painting homes, cutting grass, helping moving homes and all kinds of stuff to show our love for the members to gain there confidience to be able to get some kind of reference but nope...NOBODY...lol crackup how nobody every tells you before the mission that the hardest thing is finding people ae.....but yeah family hard hard hard as week....really working at our faith and pretty much wearing it down....but it wasnt till saturday....okay so in preach my gospel they give you a bunch of ideas on how you can find people right(chapter 9) lol well one of the suggestions that ive used all my mission but really hasnt worked is giving english clases!! lol whod ever think ae....so every saturday for the past six months in the mornings on saturday (the most uneffective hours of the week here) we have been teaching english....and for every saturday for the past 6 months the same people come...lol a few members and other non members who dont want nothing to do with the church but want to learn english...so yeah i pretty much havnt seen any success come from teaching english at all....but this past week as hard as it was we still prepared a class to teach....we went over saturday morning and opened the chapel and got the room ready and we waited....as time passed the same old people had entered so we started our class....right after the prayer a new fella poped in....he said he was from peru....fresh off the plane, saw one of our fliers and came.....my comp continued with the class and i took him a side to see where he was at with his english....he actually knew alot.....understands everything we say but just has a really hard time responding....so what i did is i told him "well....im going to teach you a few things is that cool??? and i´ll ask you a few questions here and there and then at the end we´ll talk about it...." he agreed and i started to teach him about the plan of salvation, he then put alot of attention on what i was then saying....taught him it all in english from our premortal life, to why we are here on the earth, and what will happen after this life...my comp thought it was really funny but what happened is that it was more than just an english exercise....as this man was listening attentive he felt it. despite his lack of knowledge concerning the english language he in that momnet had felt something that he never had felt before....he asked me in broken english...."do you really believe in what you just taught me??" i bore strong testimony and let him know how it is....he told me that hes always had questions about alot of things and really didnt know what to believe in but as he listened to me he felt a sense of peace and tranquilidad??? forgot the word but yeah.....this same guy (hugo is his name) rocked up to church the very next day and stayed there for all three clases....family this is not some thing that happens to often here......when we teach someone....getting them to church on time and getting them to stay for the whole thing is the hardest thing ever....but what i saw in this man is that when you really have a desire....you´ll do anything..was a really great experience for me to help me see that this is gods work....he cares in everything that we do and as we endure strong, give him all that we got he will bless us....he will test us..nothings ever going to be easy but i know that as we do our part, as we knock all the doors that we can, as we talk to as many members possible, and endure well the lord will bless us....might be in the very last moment, maybe the morning right before in english class but he will bless us....its a promise. but im really excited to work with this guy...has alot of questions and is really keen to learn so we´ll see how he progresses....but yeah family im so grateful to be here...its almost a year but ive learnt so many things already and continue to learn each and every day...i love the book of mormon...its what will keep us on the straight and narrow...hold strong to it family and one day we´ll reap the fruits of our labor... i love you guys so much...mum and dad thanks for all that you guys do for me..im so grateful to have had loving parents as you guys....for having raised us in the gosple and given us the knowledge suffiecient enough to be albe to righteously exercise our free agency...for having taught us the things of most importance of this life...i love you guys so much... lia and ash i love you kids so much...dont even know how much i love you guys...i had a lesson with a family the other day whos son went on the mission the same day as me but they have 4 kids two and there son that left was there oldest but the three last ones remind me so much of you lia and ash and george...i always get emotional there with them but just makes me realize how much you guys really mean to me...keep being good kids and examples to those around you....be loving and kind to all....learn as much as you can and put it in practice always....hori boy...sole be a good boy bro...watch over your brother and sister for me... i love you heaps my brother....think about all the time . be a good example bro and share the gosple every chance that you get....but yeha family i love you so much...heres a few videos...and a pic...send my love to grandma k...and the rest of the family but i love you all so much..con muchisimo amor,

Elder kanahele kaka

Whats sup family!!!

fa what an awesome letter and an even awesome letter....blowing me away ae....dad you guys are mean as bro...haven’t heard real good music like that in along as time bro...for real’s...i don’t know why but its my soft spot ae...i don’t mind it...i actually love seeing the videos more than anything but always makes me emotional!!! bahahaha somethihngs will just never change!!!! but yeah you guys are big time...so blessed to have such a talented family...so yeah pops send me as much songs as you can k...both video and audio ya...haha for real’s bro..but the ipod is mean as bro for real’s its really what gets me going when i need the help..just hearing your guys voices always reminds me of what kind of missionary i need to be...and it pushes me more than anything to always give my best..so yeah all good pops..
But yeah so sounds like a lots still going on back home...right back into it ae mum...dang u go girl...remember when you were in byu and you had a hard time with you math and i used to tell you....so easy mum!!! bahaha than i went and never got straight A`s!!?? bahahaha crackup but you’ve always been like that mum and its always been something that i admire...but keep going hard ae....and try not to take out all your anger in the home!! lol but sad as to hear about dads friend i actually got a letter from a friend back hom in NZ telling me about it and the video that yous made for him before i read your guys letter but yeah sad as....but at least we have the knowledge of what will happens after this life..but yeah ash sole man...how’s everything in brown bags??? Still in or out? what??? You still starting on the football team??? lol bro you’ve come along way bro...keep going hard ae...got all the talent bro...just gotta cultivate it my brother...keep being humble ae...lia gotta send me those pics that you took with your friends ya..i really want to see them...how you doing in school lia?? being a good girl??? always be nice to everyone ya...shot lia, hori bro...sole going hard??? you learn how to type yet???? I’m in a internet place right now with a bunch of other missionaries and there’s heaps of them bro who don’t know how to type and it sucks bro cuz they can only write a lil bit to their families bro and they always leave mad cuz they couldn’t write everything they want to. So learn how to type sole man...but yeah bro how’s work and all bro??? Gone on for any tofisa yet??? not to brag or anything but i was the first hamata to go on for a tofisa section in this new show...mean ae bro..hahaha before all the big dogs bro...and i was an original of the first six fireknife dancers!! bvhahahaha do you know if they came out witht he dvd yet??? if they did bro hook me up and send it too me....ask dad if he can film you to and put it on the usb so i can put it on my ipod bro!! shot...getting big as too bro...your arms look huge in the video to dads friend...working out hard still?? help ash when you can ae bro.
but yeah family my weeks been good as...yesterday in church we got there right in time before it started cuz we went looking for our investigators and they couldn’t come so we were almost late...but we got in and sat down and write before the sacrament the 1st councilor came up to me and my comp to tell us that we had to give 20 minute talks because the speakers fell thru!!! hahaha bro...lol my comp was mad ae...but we had about 15 minutes to prepare and it was all on...lol there was like 150 people and i was nervous as ae...i could see though how much I’ve really grown. i prepared something small but it ended up good as.. Talked for the whole time all in spanish..lol said a few jokes had the people interested you know what i mean...but when i finished i was just sitting up on the stands and thinking about how far I’ve come on the mission and about all the things I’ve learnt...i got here with a little testimony you know...i knew the church was true...and in my 11 months I’ve only strengthened that testimony...I’ve come to know more of our savior Jesus Christ and what he has done for me....I’ve seen his atonement not work only in the lives of others but in my own as i have the opportunity to repent each night and better myself each day..I’ve come to gain a strong testimony of the basics....faith, repentance, baptism, the holy ghost and persevering...I’ve come to gain a testimony of the restoration...that Joseph really was a prophet of god..who really did see god and his son Jesus Christ...I’ve come to gain family the knowledge of what really matters in life...the knowledge that we can be together as a family forever...and what we need to do to receive these blessings....I’m only half way but I’m so ever grateful for all the things that I’ve learnt in my very short time here serving the lord. i feel so grateful to wear his name and represent him each day...family i love all of you guys so much...I’ve come to really appreciate here on the mission the things that matter most...and its you guys... you all are my everything....thank you all for what you do...keep going hard family and represent hard....be examples to those around youand practice what we believe....my week other than that has just been great....we just got back from a zone activity and i forgot my camera cord so sorry bout it but wont be getting any pics or videos....next week though for sure...i feel bad as...but this week was good...hard as time ....don’t have too much more people to teach...baptized them all!!!! bahahahha na but yeah just looking hard....the hardest part of the work....is finding!! but its where you learn the most....where you really see what your made of you know what i mean...the time to show what kind of missionary you really are...so this testing time for us will be a good one...wanna guarantee yous before next week we´ll find someone to baptize k....secret is hard work...for everything but just gotta do our thing and the lord will bless us....we actually have a lil girl that we are teaching... she loves sharing with us so we are really going to try and help her.....this non member family that we’ve been activating for some time now are another fruit of our labor....the whole family have been going back to church and their son whos 18 and was really lost in life just told me and my comp on Sunday what he needs to do to serve a mission...so it was really emotional for me to hear that from him....he’s been coming with us on divisions and all and he really has the desires now to do it so its cool as...love the family hard ae like my own....gonna miss this place man....we have changes in 3 weeks so I’m pretty sure I’m gone ae...ill have 6 months here so that’s about max i think but we´ll see what happens...elder rosenlof my old comp wrote me today thanking me for the time that we had together....im not going to lie but i miss that furukake ae....lol one month off the mission and he’s saying he’s having a really hard time right now so he just wrote me to thank me for helping him well i was with him...cool as fella. but yeah other than that me and snider are doing good. as...found some more furniture...our house is pimp as now!!!! hahah for real’s..I’ll send pics next week ae...but yeah that’s us ae fam...sorry for writing yous late...just came back from our activity...lol Did you think i forgot??? shorry bout it...lol but yeah family that’s my time...i hope all is well...keep going hard in all that you do...mum, dad thanks for everything. kiddies i love you....send my love to gramz and all the family!! i love you all hard...but i gotta bounce so until next week family. with all my love,

Elder kanahele kaka

Hey family!!!!

fa how you guys doing??? great i hope...great letters from you guys this week...sounds like alot going on...haha gave me a few good laughs which is the most important....but sounded like you counting my days bro hahahaha 10 months and 11 day you reckon bro??? fa whata sad dude...try not to remind me ae....and yeah mum hit me up with some more face wash k...heaps just of the blue scrub stuff....but yeah other than that im good as...along week you guys dont even know...alot of stuff have gone done so i better start off letting you guys know..
We’ve had another good week...i don’t know if you guys remember brian...the kid that we baptized a few weeks ago??? well we baptized his mum on Sunday and it was just such an spiritual journey with her....so teaching them was the weirdest thing....her husband died a few years ago and after that she just gave up all hope and faith...didn’t want nothing to do with god and just didn’t understand why her you know...but she let us teach her son...so that’s what we did...we started working with him..every time we taught him the mum always listened but never participated....didn’t really want anything to do with us...but when we baptized brian we invited the mum and she ended up coming....and at his baptism that’s when it pretty much happened...she came and saw everything and when i baptized him she just started to ball.....you gotta understand that this lady is a hard nut...when her husband died she didn’t even shed a tear so for us when we saw that we couldn’t believe it ae...but last week we went by and she told us the real reason why she was crying....she said that one lesson we asked brian if he wanted to see his dad again...and he said yes...and then she said that she heard me say that ...well you can and i explained that god has a plan for us to be as a family together forever and its only through following his gospel....and i invited him that day to read and pray about the book of Mormon to see if it was true cuz if yes than what we were sharing was true...and she said that she heard me say this from her room and it was that, that caught her....so when we left her house that day she asked her son for his book and started reading it....she read the intro up to 3 nephi 11 in 4 days right up to when Jesus came and it was then where she felt that she needed to pray so she did.....and she didn’t receive her answer till her sons baptism...and she said that when she saw her son in the waters of baptism she knew with all her heart that she needed to get baptized so this past week when we went by she told us that this Sunday she wanted to get baptized....a miracle family i tell you...like you were saying dad this is a conversion that we all need to experience and when we do we become firm and immovable...you guys gotta see this lady she’s a machine....organized her own baptism...from opening song to closing prayer..bore her testimony her first fast Sunday, and asked the bishop for a calling...something only the gospel can do...change lives...i have a grand testimony of the book of Mormon....it’s the key stone of everything that we believe in...i remember when i got my own witness from god...i didn’t see Jesus or our heavenly father but what i felt was something that i could not deny..i know without a doubt that its true and holds the plentitude of the gosple of Jesus Christ and that’s why I’m here family...its true or its not...that simple, but the only way we can find out is from asking our loving heavenly father...and that’s how basic it is....and i am so grateful for the opportunity to extend this invitation to people each and every single day....so simple...but yet powerful...scarlet has only strengthened my testimony of that...so here are some pic’s of us at her baptism...so grateful for having had the opportunity to have brought her family the gosple...but yeah had her baptism Sunday and it was such a great way to start off you know.....then around 8 oclock a recent convert about 15 years old called us up just balling....and crying and said....elder elder help me...help me. so i asked him where he was at and immediately we left to go look for him...we find him at the chapel just all beat....some of his brothers friends in the house had beat the crap out of him and his little brother and they had ran away from home and had nowhere to go....family you guys don’t even know how mad i was i wanted to go over there and smash them all...i was hard out upset ae...my companion had to calm me down but i know these fwams...all little punks and they just ganged up on a fifteen year old and his lil bro who’s only 11....but we took them home and had them clean up and i gave them some of my clothes and we gave them blessings and we took them over to a members house where they stayed the night...but it was just so sad....these kids without a father...a mother who works out of town for 14 days and only comes home for 4 days then is out again for another 14...they have nothing and i just felt so grateful for the things that i have...a family...things we take for granted sometimes that other people would kill to have you know....so today me and my comp took them out to bowl and to mcdonalds....never eaten at mcdonalds ever in their lives and of course had never gone bowling so it was a real treat for them....i took a few pics so i´ll send them to you guys...but yeah that’s what we did today....oh and guess what family....like on Thursday i got a call from a member in the ward telling me he needed help cleaning out his yard so me and my comp went over and helped him hard for ages cutting a whole field of grass with only a shovel for ages...but he noticed that my shoes we hard out worn out and then he asked me what size i was...and my feet compared to chileans are huge so when i told him he was like...oh i got some shoes that you can have, my uncle bought them for me but they were to big...so he went inside to get them and brought them out and they were brand new tracking church shoes....just perfect!!! guys dont even know...blessings from the heaven!!!! lol so yeah i got me a free pair of shoes so i wont be needing anymore...cool as ae...but yeah that was my week....i want you all to know family that i love each and single one of you...dad you’ve been the most awesome dad ae....i hope that i can be a father just like you bro when i have my own kids...you were small kine hard on me bro...but it was the only way bro...you my best friend bro...thanks for everything ae....mum i love you too...hahaha remember you wanted to show me how to cook before the mish??? lol well i should have learnt!!!! lol this past week we’ve had to cook our own lunch so it would have been a big help!!! hahaha stupid boy ae me....but im learning heaps from my comp....good as cook...but i love you mum....u the bomb girl...for reals i can’t wait to hug you and kiss you again...almost there tho...but go hard in all that you do and make sure dad wears his garments ae....lol...hori!!! sole i miss you bro....keep being a good boy and watch over the kiddies for me ae bro...teach them and LOVE them bro...i love you hard my brother..ash!!!! sole i miss you bro...keep sending me funny lines from movies ae!!!! hahahaha and make heaps of videos for me bro...you better the george bro!! hahaha just learn how to play the gat...but i love you bro...sharks only bite when you touch their private parts!!!! LIA!!!!you growing up so fast my little honey!!!! dang.. i miss you so much tho lia....i hope you are being a good girl in school and where ever you are...but i miss you heaps lia...send my love to gramz k and tell her that i miss her heaps...but i love u lia...pray for you always....but yeah family i gotta bounce i love you guys so much...hope everything’s going good....thanks for all that you guys do for me....remember who you are. love you guys with all my heart.

Elder kanahele kaka

Hey family!!!

what an awesome letter ae thank you fellas heaps...honest..i know i always say it but your letters mean so much to me....but sounds like the week was a great wholesome one....filled with a lot of busy stuff ae....i can’t believe that the kids are growing up so fast...for real’s ash and them already in cheer fest??? what the crap...just seems like the other that george had his first one...but yeah thanks for the pictures and video as well dad...awesome bro..Thanks heaps. But yeah got the package...thank you family...i actually got a package from ammaron patane as well...cool ae....fa his a cool guy man..Wrote him along as thankyou letter. but yeah I’m so excited to have the new scriptures...marking them up hard ae...crackup cuz that’s all i want to do in my free time is read them...an attitude that we should always have...but yeah thanks family...just keeping my eye open for new shoes...Barbara my convert works in a shoe store so I’ll try hit her up for deals but one more thing...can you guys in the last batch of meds send some more face wash stuff please thanks mum...the skins getting better..Taking ages but getting better so that’s the main thing. but yeah that’s all hahahaha spoiled bugger ae. sorry bout it...
Well how was that general conference!?? massive ae....lol dad it’s still like a boys to men concert...for real’s people fighting for seats and just no christlikeness at all in the sense of charity or love when it comes to sitting in the front....hahaha its so crackup cause only here on the mission. But it was such an awesome experience again. i can’t believe that i used to fall asleep thru these before...lol but there was so many things that were said that i liked, but the one thing most that i loved was that we need to focus on the basics....i can’t remember who said it...cuz i watched all 5 sessions hahaha but that was something that i really liked...here on the mission if anything that’s one thing that has gotten me thru all my struggles....is the basics...elder Neil l Anderson said that we might not know everything, BUT we know enough! and it’s true....I’m not that smart, i can’t speak the language THAT great (almost sound like a Chilean...your hardest Spanish accent by the way) but what i do know is enough!!!! the basics...i know that our savior lives, i know that thru and only thru his atonement is where we can one day return to the presence of heavenly father. i know that this is the only true church on the face of the earth and that today we have a living prophet that sees and speaks with our loving heavenly father....these are something’s that nobody else can take away from me....the basics...so family i just want to invite you guys to each day do and live the basics...there’s so many people who are clueless so let’s be examples of the believers...but for me and elder snider we are still doing good as ae....he loved his neckalace ae...for real’s and started crying when he read the letter...that’s pretty good cuz he’s not to of an emotional guy so thanks ae family....as for the work..it’s been another hard as week. a investigator that we’ve been teaching for a month now that was supposed to get baptized next week straight up told us to get lost...it was so sad...we went over and she told us she doesn’t want anything to do with the church...there’s nothing more hurtful than to see an investigator progress receive the blessings for exercising her faith and being obedient than straight up stop and have no interest in what we have to share let alone not even let us in the house...so that was a hard blow for us....everybody has their agency though right...so we are more sad than anything but maybe one day adelante (lol cant think of the word..sorry bout it) but yeah so all the other investigators that we have didn’t come to the conference either so we might have to drop them and show are faith and look for those elected....hard stuff man hahaha but its the life. Still just working hard to find new people...we found a inactive member and were trying to work with him and re active his family...he’s got a few daughters and a nephew that can get baptize so it should be good. we went and did a service project there the other day and it’s so kapulu how the chileans work...for real’s eye measure everything and just pound a thousand different kind nails in to keep the thing still....we helped clean out a room that hasn’t been occupied for years cuz there going to move in and we made like shelves and window frames but it was awesome to show this father how much we really wanted to help him...he’s so lost...smokes drinks and the whole deal but he served a mission so us being around him has really helped him remember and feel the spirit again....i love these people ae...hard to explain but i think about how i can help them all the time....goes with all the people that we are blessed to meet here and as we get to know them and their needs...it becomes our everything.....just how missionary work works...but I’m so grateful to be here. I’m so grateful for each and every one of you family...you guys are my everything...mum and dad thanks for all that you guys do....i love you guys so much....keep striving to better yourselves and keep the family going hard. george ash and lia i love you guys so much....I’m so proud of the progress you guys have made...i can see it as i read each one of your letters. i listen to your guys songs everyday and i miss your guys voices. just to have them in my presence has been a great blessing to me lately....keep going hard you fellas...george watch over the kids bro and love them.. I’m so proud of you bro..you are the man uce...ash i can feel your humility as i read your letters bro...keep it up and push yourself always...send me more videos on the next usb k....lia your sweet spirit has and will always be felt...make sure to all ways share okay my darling...i love you so much honey...send my love to gramz k....tell here thanks for all the letter that i receive each week...but yeah family i love you guys so much...my times running out so I’ll catch you guys up next week...thanks for everything. Love yous hard. shottie shot shot

Elder kanahele kaka