Kia ora Familia!!

comoe estan imbeciles!!! lol what up you fellas!!! awesome letter family...good to hear that everything is all good...man i was really worried ae...lol i know nothing happened but being so far away from you guys and only hearing from everyone telling you that there was a tsunami in Hawaii, this and that just makes everything worse. but yeah way relief now....as for us here we are all good...nothing’s happened and we should be good....but yeah mum don’t worry about the package..it will get here....maybe might take a lil bit more longer but it will get here...piso 3 means the third floor of the building and we are the only missionaries in the whole building so they always end up figuring it out so sweet as...but awesome videos and pics family. lia ounce again is the bomb!! dang girl you just blossoming in all forms there girl! lol and boys the song was three mean ba.......happy anniversary mum and dad...fa getting old ae...hahaha crackup man but im glad you guys liked the letter last week..Good stuff ae....learning heaps here on the mission ae...never going to forget my time spent here in the lords service. well for me everything’s going all right, got some good news and some bad news...so for our good news......we had our baptisms yesterday!!!! we baptized valentina denise rocha palomera, and nayare rocha palomera and it was beautiful ae family...really small baptismal service but the most beautiful spirit ever....i really love them ae....just seeing how the gospel in the little amount of time that we had with them was able to change their lives and make them so much more happier really is worth all the struggles and hardships..but I’ll send you some photos of the baptisms ya.....um the bad news...well its not bad at all but it sucked hard....we had changes and I’m in a whole other sector with a whole new companion....his name is elder paine...hes from canada and hes awesome and seems like a really good kid...new as so well learn heaps together but yeah that’s us..Our house is even worse...the toilets outside and our sink is in the shower! Its small as ugliest and stinkest place I’ve ever seen but will have to do....the only thing that i will not miss from this place...the houses!! lol but our sector is called rosende and we are in the stake of zapadencia. our sector is the small sector of the whole mission so it’s gonna be different....but family there has never been anything harder in my whole entire mission than saying bye to the people that you come to love....it’s like saying bye to your own family.. for reals...i just cried like a baby as i had to say bye to all our members and converts yesterday...it sucked hard...the crappy thing is that I probably will never see them ever again and that very thought is what makes things so much harder. We were just starting to have heaps of success too...we found a family of nine!! Well remember the activity with all those little kids that we had last week? well we printed out the photos of us and the kids and were going by their house to give them the pics and the one of the kids mum answered one of the doors, saw the pic, invited us in and we talked to her...she told us about her huge family, they all came out and joined us and we put them all with a baptismal date!!! Was crazy bah...nine of them, and we also found someone else, a girl who is best friends with the girl that we baptized yesterday who really wants to listen to us. So it was hard as to leave..but yeah..at least I’ll get to know more people here so I’m excited as about that too...but as i lay in bed last night i was thinking about my whole experience there in los conquistadores and i really had learnt a lot ae....made a lot of lifelong friends and really had strengthen my testimony...never will forget the things that i learnt there...and will always cherish my memories of los conquistadores....

but yeah family, this week in the gym the guy who owns the place told me something that I’ve always known but really hit me.....we were talking and we got around to talking about different exercises and muscles and all that good stuff and i asked him..."ae bro, I’ve lifted for a while and I’ve always had a problem with getting big arms!".....hahaha such a humbling statement ae...lol but his response is what hit me....he said, " in order to see results, well you need to check your priorites!"..he went on saying...." you come in here and 3 out of 5 days and you bench, the other two days you´ll work shoulders and maybe if your not that tired you decide to do your bicepts!" hahaha what a slap in the face ae....lol thats what he told me bro...Straight up and it wasn’t the answer i was expecting but it was very true. Many times we work hard, and hard and question ourselves, why can’t i see any results?? i know ive seen it a lot here in the mission...often i find myself getting home exhausted to the very death having knocked a thousand and one doors, having spoken with every single person that i see and still no results...its happens to everybody, that as we have a derised goal, we tend to at times do things that yes are productive but don’t help the cause. Like elder oaks has mentioned we need to forgo some good things in order to receive better or the best results. Starting in a whole new sector this will be my mind set to work miracles in this ward..The lord didn’t send me here to not have success. So like this little chilean man said, let’s all check our priorities to see what are the best things that we can do here and now to achieve our desired results. This week lets prioritize ourselves and forgo those things which are just good and strive to be best...the lord has promised us in alma 26:27 and says, "GO! ....and i will give you success" let’s "GO" hard this week family.
i love you all so much...mum and dad thanks for everything ae...don’t worry about me i am striving daily to do better..Thanks for supporting me and us kids..we love you guys so much...miss you guys like crazy ae...have a great week...let all the whanau know that i love them...hori boy...i love you bro...keep going hard dog...was good talking to you the other day bro...your a good kid bro..awesome example dog..keep it up...love and take care of your little bro and sis...ash and lia...love you guys heaps...for reals i miss you guys the most and can’t wait to hear from you guys again..tell gramz that i love her...but my time hears is up family...i love you guys heaps, until next week my lovely family, with all my love,

Elder kanahele kaka

Temple Night - Recording for Elder Kaka

Hey family!!!!

what an awesome letter family...man you guys sound and look soooooo good...sole georgie boi you da man bro...fa you got it bro..your dancing is three mean!!! winner!!! hahaha for reals bro was three mean the video...look way good to bro..i feel like a fag now compared to you bro,...im skinny as now dog!! sweet as though...but your Hawaiian was off the chain bro...good on you homes....and lia.HAPPY BIRTHDAY...dang girl you gettin big!!!! for reals you one beautiful swan now!! you look so grown up and so pretty!!! omg i got a lot of work cut out for me ae when i get home....you won’t be having any boyfriends till your thirty!!! lol na but happy birthday my sweetie....ash bro your getting tall as too bro..fa huge mungral!! shot on the keks little maori. but thanks family was an awesome letter and was great able to hear from you guys again...tell gramz thanks for her letter too and let her know that yes you need to put piso 3 on the package. haha but yeah excited as for the package...thanks ah bulleh....excited to see the videos...gonna be crackup as. As for me I’m all good ae...had a huge activity today cuz its the last week of the transfer and we had a great time ....we went and ate out at a restaurant at the rich end of town and had a great time...for me i still don’t have money but i should be getting some this Tuesday...if not imma start beasting people. but this week was a good as one...our little girls that we are teaching are doing great and should be getting baptized this week...we will have to see if there grandpa has to work or not...cuz he will be the one baptizing them but i hope they get baptize this week so I’m here to see it....we will be having changes next Monday and i really think my time is up so i hope everything goes well for this week....i will have been here for four and a half months by next Monday and am ready for a change hahaha i do love this sector, my companion, and the other two elders but i need a change...so we´ll just have to see what happens. if not then sweet as...but yeah our house is still jacked up and nobodies been over to see it.... um the work is still the same old...a lot of new challenges but so every grateful for them.... but this month I’ll be coming up on 16 months!!!!crazy ae!!! hahaha i so can’t believe it. times has surely past so quickly and it’s not good! lol i was thinking a lot the other day, just about everything you know...my whole mission experience...everything that I’ve gone through, and things i continue to learn day in and day out and just realized how blessed i am. i am so ever grateful for this time the lord has given me to grow and learn for myself....the mission surely has been the best two years for my life! i don’t know if you guys remember haha but i want to share an experience that we all know about, that reflects a lot of how the mission has blessed me and my life..well it goes way back to when we were living in the land of the long white cloud, aotearoa! lol we were living in Melville at the time and despite of the distance needed to travel me and george insisted of going to school with all the cuzzies at the infamous KOROMATUA primary school! haha back in the days ae...well if you all remember every morning we used to wake up kinda early to get ready and mum or dad used to take us to the bus stop. They use to drive us there, drop us off, and leave, and we would wait, get on the bus, and go to school. This we did for a while and soon just became another part of our day to day routine. (here is where the story is still till this very day not settled) well one day according to my memory i remember being dropped off and sitting there for ages and ages before finally realizing that we had missed the bus...what i remember is that we both (george and I)started to cry! lol i was honestly scared ae....scared because we were lost and we didn’t know how to get home! You know mum and dad had taken us from home to this bus stop 1000s of times and we still didn’t know how to get home. Well to make a long story short...we end up following a random lady till we recognized something we knew and eventually we arrived home..the thing that i never will forget is how i felt as ´we ran up to dad at the back porch and hugged him...a sense of warmth, belonging, and love is what i felt that day and i knew that i was home!! why i share this experience family is because this is how my mission has blessed me....growing up in the church mum and dad in a sense have driven us to and from the bus stop our whole lives...you know being the great parents they are, they have always stressed the importance of going to church, saying our prayers, reading our scriptures etc. showing us the way to our celestial home from our worldly bus stop here on earth..and I’m not going to lie but for myself growing up i kinda did things just to do them not really taking advantage of familiarizing myself with the route needed to get home. for this very reason family i cherish these two years that i have had to serve our savior Jesus Christ...i remember checking into the mtc the very first day and being scared out of my mind....kinda feeling the very same i did that day as me and geroge sat at that bus stop alone. i felt lost...it was the same my very first day i got here in chile,i felt alone, i felt lost! but little by little, day by day i have come to know for myself family the truthfulness of this gospel, the reality of the atonement of Jesus Christ, and why we do what we do....i have come to gain for myself a testimony of basic truths..of faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the holy ghost and enduring to the end. i have come to know for myself the way back for our heavenly home. Family i know this gospel is true and that as we keep strong and firm on this straight and narrow we will one day be embraced in the arms of our loving heavenly father and know and feel that we are home. mum and dad i love you guys so much...i may have not been the best child ever, i may have not understood everything growing up but i thank you for being consistent in raising us in this gospel. You guys seriously are the bomb....george, ash, and lia...i love you guys heaps! keep being good kids and do what’s right...strive to learn each day and show your love to all those around you....tell grandma i love her heaps too...family my times running out but just wanted to thank you for all that you guys do to have me here. Keep going hard and I’ll hear from you guys next week. With all my love,

Elder kaká

Hey family!!!

Sorry for the delay but we´ve had a busy as day....crazy as i tell you and on top of it all i don’t have any money!! hahaha so i gotta make this short and quick so that my ten cents that i have will be able to be enough to pay for this internet session! lol but family sounds like you guys had a great, and fruitful week...a lot going on ae?? awesome man...keep pushing yourselves and go hard, but it was awesome talking to you fellas the other day..haha for reals was such a good treat...sorry for waking you fellas up but had to do what i had to do you know...lol useless buggers...mum answered the phone and was her dumb dongy half asleep self! lol i go hello mum and shes like hi! and i was like mum this is Conway you egg!!! lol full on didn’t even notice!!! Useless bro! hahaha na jokes mum...was good as talking with you guys tho...about the money i should be getting hooked up tomorrow from the office here so i should be good for now....but still send me my card and all as soon as you can ae...oh and something else that i would like for you guys to send is the dvd of the new ha breath of life show!! wes told me that he got it and its crackup as so hook me up with it ae...and some more songs of you fellas singing...fa thanks ae family...well this week has been a good one...our two investigators are progressing just great and their mum is also coming around....nayaret who is fourteen and her little sister valentina who is 11 are two little girls who we are teaching and who give us that feeling of satisfaction that knowing that all the hard work we put in, in the past few months have been worth it. you know working hard day in and day out is hard when you don’t see any results you know and sometimes well most of the time it’s hard to keep going but cases like these two little girls are the reasons why we wake up day after day to do what we do...if we didn’t keep persistent who knows when paola and her two little girls would be receiving the gospel. You gotta see them family they are so awesome and i love visiting them so much..it’s like in spite of all the trials that they have we have given them hope of a better world and you can see how the gospel really has done just that....seeing them progress, seeing them keep their commitments and really understand why, has given them a reason to be better and to keep pushing and they have become truly happy with themselves as a family....it’s been so awesome to have been able to work with them and see them change....but it’s been a good week..And I’m happy ..lol i don’t feel like this a lot but i really feel good about everything ae...even though we don’t have outstanding numbers or we didn’t baptized a whole village i feel good with what i was able to give to the lord...Gordon b Hinckley said..."with out hard work nothing grows but weeds" and this is how it’s been for me in my sector for the past 4 months. If you think about it it’s kind of worded weird but makes total sense... as we work hard we stop weeds from growing and we keep our soil weed free and make ourselves worthy of receiving the blessings of the lord.. in the sense of missionary work baptism are gifts and blessing from the lord to us which he gives us if we are worthy enough to receive them...and by working hard and not allowing weeds to grow, we make ourselves worthy of such blessings.....president Hinckley didn’t say...work hard and guarantee you´ll see miracles...he said if you don’t work hard nothing will happen and the "weeds" will grow and take over ... and it’s so true...consistent hard work hasn’t brought us huge miracles but its helped us to have a clean soil...weed free. Ready for the blessings that the lord has for us..And as we´ve consistently worked hard we have kept ourselves prepared for such blessings and fruits of our labors have definitely been seen, moreover felt and way worth it. Family key word is not to only work hard but to "constantly" and "persistently" work hard, in spite of the results. Lets "daily" keep our gardens clean and the lord in his time will bless us. Keep going hard family in all that you do...no matter what happens just work hard ya, But yeah that’s what’s up with us here in los conquistadores! other than that we’ve been knocking heaps of doors hahaha up visiting a lot of members...i lost my wallet the other day...dumb bugger ae....um our house is super jacked up now..We pretty much wake up to a flood every morning....our piping in our house is seriously jacked up and nobodies come around to do anything about it..um i confirmed somebody yesterday in church in front of the whole sacrament for my first time...it was pretty nerve racking but it was all good...uh i also gave another talk in sacrament meeting, blessed, passed and taught the lesson!! hahaha crackup ae... but i miss you all so much family...mum and dad i love you guys so much..thanks for all that you do...don’t worry bout me ya...your lil boy is doing good and trying to better himself each day...George ash and lia...i love you guys so much...love each other and look out for each other ya...lift those around you who need help and serve with love always... i miss you little mungrals like the hell! be good kids and represent for the whanau...but my times up send my love to the family...let gramz know that i love her a lot...sorry for rushing but i love you guys with all my heart...thanks for everything that you guys do for me family...keep going hard and we´ll hear from you guys next week ae.... with all my love,

Elder kanahele Kaka

Kia Ora family and friends,

Unfortunately we are unable to post Elder Kanahele's letter this week. A little to personal, but is well, working hard, having a lot of fun as he lives the life of a Missionary in the Chile Santiago Mission. He sends his love and appreciation to everyone.

Happy valentines!!!

what’s up family?? what an awesome letter ae...sounds like everybody’s doing great and happy! idk what it is but everybody looks so grown up in the photos that you sent me! dang for real’s....ash is tall as...George looks huge! hahaha mean photos bro and lias all grown up and a beautiful swan now! lol i miss you guys so much ae...jealous as ae that i can't be with you guys but its sweet as.....but good you guys got my photo...it was getting small kine wasted here having to carry it house to house so I thought id send it home....but yeah a convert gave it to me for my birthday! Mean ae... But yeah family im good!!! hahaha have had along as week and so many things have happened that i don’t even know where to start! lol well we finally found somebody who’s really good and who could progress...well we actually found a few but only two of them have baptismal dates.....there’s a inactive family that we’ve always planned to see but never really got around to seeing them cuz they were always our backup planes and we never really had to go over you know...and we didn’t even know them so it wasn’t like we felt urged to go over...but this week all our plans had fallen through hahaha and we literally had nothing to do! nobody to visit and it was tough ae....mission doesn’t get any harder than that....but we prayed about things and felt that we had to go visit this family.....so the next day me and the hondurainian elder actually went over to this house and it was great ae family....the lady who lives there has been a member for like ever and knows everything but fell away cuz her husband’s not a member and hasn’t gone back to church since...which was like 9 years ago...and there hasn’t been anybody! No one person who has visited her since!!!! Crazy ae! so yeah she has a daughter who’s 14 and one that’s 9 and its been amazing....just being able to re inactivate this sister and help her daughters enter in to the waters of baptism....this sister loves us ae....we’ve only know here for one week but where’ve done everything to show her that we love her and she feels it...she trust us and she wants us to help her, so it’s been a miracle being able to find this lady and her family again...we hope that everything goes well with them and that they all can be firm in the church! and that was our highlight of the week.... we’ve also done a lot of planning for that big activity were going to do and its harder than we thought!! hahaha there’s a lot of things involved and just really complicating...the whole money, transportation, and location set ups are killing us but were going to do it!! were all determined to get it done so were all keen ae....but something that i actually wanted to share with you guys that got me thinking a lot this week was something that happened to us in our own house....so Tuesday morning i wake up first and leave our room to go use the toilet and as i step out our room, i stepped into straight up water...i look down and our house is flooded!!!! bahaha our whole living room, bathroom, and kitchen was covered in just straight up water....lol it was a crackup as cuz anything on the ground was destroyed! for real’s like i looked around and i saw a few of my undies just floating around...haha was crackup as but yeah so i woke everybody up to clean it and it took us ages!!! like a good 3or 4 hours just to get the water out and spring clean our house....it looks like we had a pipe bust and the whole night water was just exploding out flooding everything right...so we had to cut the water to the sink and still nobody’s come to fix it...but as we were cleaning there was something that i noticed that really grabbed my attention....it was that most of the water had flowed to the same part of the room in the living room...yes everything was wet and under water but there was a corner in the room that was like a foot more under water than the rest of the room....and i got to thinking why it was like that? And when you think about it, it’s because water flows where it’s easier to go right? Water goes with the flow and normally goes where its easiest to go! i was thinking about it and there are so many people like this water....they just follow with the crowd, go with the flow and go where its easiest to go! People just do what’s easiest because its obviously more easier and because they don’t need to push themselves. The natural man who is an enemy to good make us want to do what’s easiest.....we run into heaps of people here who are catholic!! 90 percent of cerro navia or the city that we work in is catholic and you ask any one of them how many times they go to church in one year? i swear you not that 80 percent of them will say twice...Christmas and Easter! Its ridicules but its true....then you ask them why they are catholic and they don’t know what to say....and really they’re catholic because it’s easy to be catholic. if i didn’t know anything about god or anything and i had to choose a church going to church twice a year is way easier than every Sunday of the year right, and id obviously choose the catholic church. It’s not a coincidence why 80 percent of this country is catholic...it’s really sad but its true...and it’s a great tool that Satan uses to attack us. What I’ve come to grasp here on the mission is that this gospel is not easy to live for a reason! being an example can be tough at times, doing what is right always will require courage, and living every gospel principle might require some sacrifice but if it wasn’t like this how would we be able to grow and progress? You can’t...it’s impossible to progress if we do what is easiest to do. Elder Holland said that the things of most value here in this life require the most sacrifice!! and it’s true...family let’s not go with the flow and go where its easiest to go...lets push ourselves constantly, yes we will always have problems, obstacles, road blocks, but don’t let them stop us from pushing. Nephi teaches us, "Wherefore, ye must press forward with steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life. “God promises us eternal life!!! What motive greater than this! Let’s go hard family...i love each and every one of you soooooo much. Truly are my strength to push myself each and every day. There is nothing else that i want from this life than to be together forever as a family! we know what we need to do so let’s go out and do it ae...mum and dad i love you guys so much...thank you for everything that you guys do for us..i have been so blessed to have my best friends be my own parents...love you guys so much...keep the family strong ae...George, i love you bro keep helping and loving ash and especially lia..cuz you will definitely regret it when you leave if you don’t bro...be a good boy and represent hard dog...ash and lia...take care of each other, love one another, and be patient with each other k....i want you to both know that i love you guys the most...can’t wait to come home and cruz it with you lil fwammies! for real’s...tell gramz that i love her and miss her heaps k. but i love you heaps family...until next week you black Maoris!

Elder Conway kauimua kanahele kaka