I Love Molokai!

Hey everyone.  How are you all doing this week?  My week has been awesome.  I love Molokai.  I guess I will just start from the beginning of the week.  Tuesday I just said bye to everyone in Maui and the last stop of that day was the Kaholoaa Family (Bro Kaholoaa is from Molokai so I will probably see him soon, haha).  They were awesome!  They are definitely one of my favorite families to visit.  Sister Kaholoaa's sister was the one we were teaching who was not ready to commit to baptism yet.  When we were there saying goodbye at their house, we were talking about baptism and she seemed really close to committing.  So then I left and came to Molokai.  I rode the ferry to Molokai and I got really wet but that's beside the point…  Turns out that the day after I arrived in Molokai, Elder Workman calls and tells me she committed to baptism! We taught her a bunch and she decides to commit the week after I leave?  It's ok though, as long as she is getting baptized, I'm stoked.  Elder Workman called me today and told me she passed her Baptism interview and will be baptized next week.  Awesome!  This whole past week I have been trying to figure out how I could get over there… I think I am going to have to swim...no…  but I think i can make it... maybe... her Uncle is coming from Molokai to confirm her.  I'll just come with him... that would work probably if there wasn't a large ocean in the way.  Oh well, it’s all good.  So that is the story that made my whole week!

Anyway Molokai is awesome!  And guess who my comp is…Elder Davis!  He was in my district on big island!  He is awesome and loves to work!  The people here are the best.  Everyone knows everyone and they are so nice and wave all the time.  It's a lot like Ka'u but is its own island.  We have set a goal for 7 baptisms for October and I think we will make it.  We have 4 for sure and there are a few other kids who are pretty much ready.  The rest of my District is awesome as well.  Our District Leader is Elder Maybon from Boise Idaho and his comp is Elder Mafi from Tonga.  There are both hilarious and I'm stoked to be able to serve here with them.  I'm taking a lot of pics so I will probably send those soon. 

Oh and I need to tell you about Molokai hot bread...  Ok imagine this…  You are careening down the slopes of a cream cheese icing mountain on a sleigh made of the best bread in the universe and you run into a cinnamon patch and it dusts your sleigh with the perfect amount of cinnamon…then you eat your sleigh and it is kind of like fireworks exploding in your mouth...  And that is how it feels to eat Molokai hot bread!  It’s so good, except it is a little strange when you buy it because you have to go down this dark ally, and it doesn't open until 8:30 PM, and you order through the window of this old building and they go and make it and then give it to you.  It's the best.  You guys really need to try it someday haha.

 

So that is my week.  It was a good one.  I look forward to hearing from you guys again!

Elder Pincock

NEXT STOP... MOLOKAI!!

I am being transferred!  It's funny that I have only been in two areas and now I am being transferred to MOLOKAI!  It's one of the smaller islands off of Maui.  It is still in the same zone, haha.  I'm pretty excited for that!  I've always wanted to see what it was like over there.  Now i will only have one more island to go to and that is Kauai.  Well and Oahu but everyone goes there, haha.  There are only 4 elders total on Molokai.  I hear my new companion is pretty cool too so I will let you guys know about everything next Monday.  I get to ride a ferry there and that means I don't have a wait limit to my bags which is nice.  I’m pretty stoked to go but obviously sad to leave.  Elder Workman has been awesome.  He has been one my favorite comps so far.  He is staying here along with Elder Savage.  Elder Allen is going to Oahu somewhere.  This has been a crazy 4 ½ here, haha. 

So JT is going to live in a bamboo hut? That would be awesome!  That would be weird to go tracting in a place like that!  There is so many Phillipino people here.  We can't understand what they say and they can't understand us.  They see us and just say "Catholic dats why"...  it's kind of funny. 

I wish i could be there for the demolition in the house, haha,  that was always the best part.  I kind of miss remodeling haha.  I haven't lived in a house where we haven't done that.

Well the work this week was pretty much the same.  We have been trying to see all the less active and part member families on the ward list (which is like 75 percent of them)  but we haven't found anyone solid yet but we will keep looking.  Wel,l I guess elder workman will...  We also taught one of our investigators again and it still amazes me that she's not a member.  We had a really good lesson.  She is moving forward but very slowly.  She keeps trying though. 

We went to chiefs house again for the last time.  I don't know if you remember me talking about him but he lives way out in the boonies next to a rock beach.  It was awesome.  I took some pictures so you guys will get to see it soon.  We also rode a school bus this week, haha.  There was an investigator in pukalani ward that we all know pretty well that drives the bus to school.  Elder Allen told her one day that he would show up one day and sneak on the bus.  She didn't really believe him so we just had to do it.  So we got up early and grabbed our back backs and drove like a block away from her house and then parked so she wouldn't see it and snuck up to her house and she had her bus running in the driveway.  We snuck up in and layed in the back and she came in and made a few stops.   Then in the middle of it we just sat up.  She had the funniest look on her face.  She just looked at us and started laughing.  So then we just talked to all the kids on the bus to school.  She had them all introduce themselves to us and they all prayed with us before they got off the bus, haha.  So, that is my interesting story for the week. 

I love you guys.  Thanks for all of you support.  I really am grateful for it. 

See ya in Moloka'i.  (probably not though.  That'd be weird)

Elder BigBear Pincock

Could Be My Last Week in Maui??

Hey family and all other who read this…

Sounds like it was a good week, once again I start all of my letters like that.  Mom, yes we might have warn the funny glasses in the package for a period of time, haha! Thanks a lot I was stoked for that package. 

That's funny about that guy here that emailed you a picture huh, haha.  He is quite wealthy...  He lives pretty much across the street from the beach and owns a zipline on big island so if I get to go back there again I might be able to do it for free! it's crazy cool!  He lives in Paia which is the north side of the big part of Maui.  That's pretty much where all the hippies/haolis live, haha.  He is a really nice guy though.  We didn't even know he lived there we were just tracting on his steet and he answered the door.  We were like I know you from somewhere, haha.  Tracting was kind of hard that day because two days before I sprained my ankle because we went down this hill to see a goat and I slipped on my way down...  I get hurt in the dumbest ways.  Elder Allen and Elder Workman pretty much just made fun of me.  But really I deserved it, lets be honest. 

Transfers are coming up again next week.  We find out on Sunday and leave Wednesday.  I think I am out of here.  I think I am going to Oahu this time...  Not sure what to think of that.  But I'll let you guys know next week how that goes. 

I got the package with the memory card in it.  There were no videos on it...  Or maybe they just wouldn't play for me but i wasn't able to see them...  Bummer!  I miss my Max a ton

You guys are starting the remodeling?! sweet!  Did I tell you we were tiling this guys house?  haha We did some demolition and now we are putting down the tile.  So glad I was able to see dad do all those things.  I really can't wait to remodel my own house.  That's really funny that we guys are fighting to stay in that little house.  But I really think I would be sad if I came back to a different one.  I don't quite understand.  I guess it will be a little different.  Maybe a little nicer, haha.

 

Our pad is pretty funny.  It is slowly being sucked down into the earth.  If you look at the inside everything is way tilted and our fridge kind of looks like it is going break through the walll and fall out.  It is tilting back and our microwave is on top of it pushed to the back so I feel like a small child when I have to use it.  Elder Workman makes fun of me because he is like 8 feet tall, haha. 

Again this was a slow week for missionary work...  A really slow week.  That was kind of our fault too though.  We had a lot of things going like zone conference and whatnot which bytheway was awesome.  I love zone conference.  I think I tell you that every time too.  It helps so much with the work and helps motivate me again when things aren't going as good as I would like them too.  The leadership in this mission is awesome.  One of our zone leaders, Elder Davies, is going home and we are all pretty bummed about it.  And I have told you guys a ton that I love our mission president and his wife.  They are awesome and are always looking out for us. 

We also had our movie night on Saturday.  We had 2 nonmembers come!  Hopefully we can get over there and teach them.  One of them seemed pretty open.  They came with their friend who is a member who just moved in to the ward.  Hopefully we can get teaching them soon. We are also teaching another girl who probably should have been baptized a long time ago but keeps telling the missionaries she is not ready.  We had a super spiritual lesson about baptism on Friday but she just won't commit.  She is afraid to make a mistake.   And we have told her many times that she WILL! haha and that's why she needs to be a member so she can be forgiven of those mistakes.

 

Well that is pretty much it for the week.  I hope you liked this email better than the last one.  Sorry about that.  Love you guys.  The church is true and there is no way that it couldn't be.  I love being a missionary and encourage you guys to help those in need of this Gospel. 

Elder Bigbear