Transfer Calls Last Night....

We are all staying another transfer!! haha Even Elder Maybon.  He will have been here 7 1/2 months after this.  He was ready to go but is still excited to stay a little longer.  Man it has been a crazy week.  We had another baptism and confirmation!  So we have 5 new members for this month, our goal of 7.  President is holding us to a high standard now too because this last month was so successful ...   I hope we can keep it up.  The ward keeps working hard with us, they are awesome. 

I gave a talk in Sacrament.  It went alright but ended up being a little short, I talked on the Atonement.  I used Alma 7:11-13.  That is one of my favorite scriptures about the atonement because it lets us know that it wasn't just for our sins that he suffered for us but for everything even a bad thought or a time that we have felt wronged.  I also wanted to use Mosiah 14:5 Which is another scripture that I love.  Elder Davis' was good too.  He talked on remembering Christ.  There was a former missionary visiting here this week too so with the extra time they just had her come up and bear her testimony.  It was good and made me think of when I come back as a normal person, haha.  I'm stoked for that. 

On Saturday we had a huge Halloween party wih the ward and pretty much the island of Molokai, haha.  There was a ton of people there.  It was a trunk or treat plus a pot luck and there was a desert contest and a chili contest.  It was awesome.  Oh and guess who won 2nd place in the dessert contest...  ELDER PINCOCK AND ELDER DAVIS!  Haha  with what you ask?  It was graham cracker brownies but with peanut butter fudge and chocolate fudge on top.  It was awesome!  It tasted like snickers.  They also had a little spook ally for the kids and of course I had to go in.  There was a huge line and it made me think of when we used to go to the haunted houses in Utah.  I really miss those.  Tyler said there is a new one?  Did any of you go to it?  Was it good? 

Our teaching this week was kind of down.  We didn't have a lot of lessons but we were busy with baptisms, ward members, and other ward activities so we didn't get much new this week but it's all good.  It was a good week for fellowship in the ward.

Hey I get to talk to you guys on the phone soon!  SWEET!  It's kind of weird that I am approaching my second Christmas as a missionary.  Man, I have really been craving some Christmas music lately.  You should send me some.  Oh and guess what... I lost the dvd player...  It might have been stolen.  I'm hoping I just left it at a members house.  I'm pretty bummed about that. 

Well, I love you guys.  I love this Gospel.  I love Jesus Christ and my Heavenly Father.  I'm so glad to be sealed to my family.  I miss you guys so much.  

Elder Pincock

P.S.  Those Costume pictures were awesome!  Me and Elder Davis just switched tags this year. Haha 

Successful Week in Molokai!

Hey everyone!  Sounds like a pretty good week for you guys.  It sounds like a crazy fun show you saw with Vanessa, haha. Oh and I'm glad that all of you made it back from the Thriller show okay, trax can be kinda sketchy at night.  I kinda always liked it though, haha, because strange people are sometimes funny, it's that simple. 

This week was another awesome week!  I think I say that every time now but I'm cool with that.  We had another baptism and she did awesome and is really smart.  She is only 9 and it was cool because her mom was saying that she wanted to get back into church but just didn't know how and didn't know if she was allowed, and this helped her come back and be able to feel the spirit again.  Hopefully, her mom’s boyfriend, who is not a member felt the spirit too and decides to join us.  That would be the best.  They are an awesome family.  We taught a ton of lessons this week too.  I think like 23 or something.  I hope that doesn't sound like I am bragging but I'm just stoked about it! 

The zone leaders came to our pad this weekend to check up on us.  Elder Gardner, of course, came with us and Elder Toki went with the other elders.  We had a pretty good time.  We also figured out that Elder Toki is slightly crazy.  We were all messing around for exercise in the morning on rip sticks and whatnot.  We were just going down the driveway and stuff and then we look over and Elder Toki is bombing down the hill that we live on.  Which is like 1/4 mile long and is super steep has a highway at the bottom...  not the best idea he has ever had...  We were all freaking out.  I thought he was gonna a die.  A car started backing out and it missed in by like a foot.  But then, going like 20 miles an hour, he hit the lip at the end of the road, flew across and landed on the highway and then slid the rest of the way.  Luckily there were no cars or he would have been destroyed.  His leg was pretty messed up though.  Like half of his calf was a raspberry...  is was pretty nasty looking. 

Well, we are not doing anything too special today, although we might go fishing for a little while.  That's pretty cool.  This upcoming week is the last week of the transfer... Wow!  I will hit a year end of next transfer!  Crazy!  It’s gonna be a good week though, we are going to have another baptism.  Another 9 year old kid.  He is awesome little guy.

Well that's about it.  Love you guys.  Wish you guys could experience Molokai.  It's the best. 

Elder Pincock

Hiked to Kalapapa!!

Hey everyone!  I made it back in time to email! Today we hiked down to Kalapapa, the leper colony, and we didn't think we were going to make it back in time but I kicked my butt so I could! haha We made it back at like 3:30.  The other elders did it last week and didn't make it back until 5, so feeling pretty good about myself, haha.  We weren't able to ride the mules.  I was pretty sad about that.  Man I miss that so much.  Just seeing the huge mule train there brings back some pretty good memories.  The hike was crazy.  It goes pretty much straight up a cliff.  We got down to the little town and we took a bus tour of it.  It was pretty cool, and is awesome to say that I did it!  You can only go down there by invitation and luckily one of the members owns it, so we got hook ups, of course.  We took a tour of the churches and stuff... well except the LDS church wasn't part of the tour but the bus driver was nice and drove past it. 

Now to answer some of your questions… we stay with members in their basement and it is awesome! It's so nice.  Both companionships even have our own bathrooms and it was just remodeled so it's really nice.  I will send pics soon.  We have an awesome view of the ocean, its right outside the window above my desk!  We do have a washer but no dryer just lines.  I still haven't had to use the ironing board yet, haha but we will see.  We do have a car.  Our area is actually pretty big.  As for my ukulele skills, they are becoming keen.  haha Except I still don't know many songs I just have been messing around making up stuff.  Our teaching is going awesome! I think we taught over 20 lessons this week again.  We are still working really hard but despite of it all one of our investigators, who had a baptismal date, didn't come to church again, so we had to drop the date and won’t be baptized in October.  We may still reach our goal though.  We are working so hard to not let anyone fall through the cracks.  Elder Davis and I are doing really well as a companionship.  He is really humble and loves everyone.  We are so grateful for everyone's prayers and help.  President came and interviewed us and was very pleased with our work.  Pretty much all he told us was to keep it up and to not give up.  

Wow, I can't believe Jam is engaged! Why have I not received a wedding invitation, haha, that's so funny because she was sure that she wouldn't be, haha.  Congratulations to her!  Tell Tyler that is the same picture I have hanging up here (well not exactly but taken from the same day), haha.  I love those pics, let them all know that I miss them all!  I know I say this lately but I felt the trunkiest, with the seeing the mules and some pics, even of snow! Someone showed me a pic of snow in AF canyon! Snowboarding!  

I love you guys so much, but don't worry because I love Molokai and they take pretty good care of me here, haha.  And….I really wish you guys could taste the Molokai bread.  It's the best. 

I haven't finished Jesus the Christ yet because I stopped reading for a while but I am starting up again and I look forward to reading it every night.  Weird, right?  I highly recommend you join in reading it too.  It helps if you understand the bible stories though so I am reading them at the same time.

Elder Bigbear Pincock

Hello! I Still Love Molokai!

Hey everyone… It has been an awesome week this week.  Pretty cool you googled the mule riding place here…the other elders went there without us today because the member that owns it only could take 2 at a time.

I did get the package! Thanks! Oh and just thought I would tell you this little story…The Zot candy almost killed me because I bit it and that stuff exploded from the inside of it like lava in my mouth and I almost choked… haha!  I forgot to tell you that I loved that tribute cd that you gave me, it is awesome and didn't leave me and Elder Workman’s CD player for like 4 weeks before I left Maui. Thanks!

Well… We almost met all of our goals for this week.  We were one short on our lessons with a member.  ONE SHORT! But the ward temple trip was this week so we did pretty good considering not many people were on the island.  It always makes me feel bad when people talk about the temple trip here because they have to do like a year of planning and saving just to go there for a week...  I could have walked to our temple...  I definitely took that for granted.  Our 4 baptisms got pushed back because of a funeral that day but I'm not sure when yet, it will still be this month though.  We have 3 others with a date so I still think we are going to reach our goal.  We are just focusing on being as obedient as possible and working our butts off! I love it!  It is way better when we are busy then when we don't have anyone to teach.  Molokai is also nice because we pretty much have to be done at like 7:30pm because everyone goes to bed way early, haha.  So we get some good rest here.  One of our investigators did set a date for her wedding too, which is awesome!

You were talking about Bronson how he was listening to Doug Stone yesterday… well wanna know something weird?  That song “love grows best in little houses”  randomly came into my mind yesterday, haha and I was going to ask you who sang that song, I couldn’t remember, haha so thanks.  I have been missing country music a lot lately, one of the members in our ward (who is kind of a cowboy) was telling me about all of the county western artists he knows.  So now I also have had Glen Cambell's, "Gentle on my mind" stuck in my head too for this week, haha.  It sounds like Bronson is doing well and that we were probably thinking the same thing at the same time this week!  I miss and love you guys so much but I have been trying not to think about it because there is a ton of work for me to do here, which helps.  It sounds like Skye and Ty's business is going pretty well too!  That's awesome. Make sure to tell them hi for me next time you see them and that  I miss coming and kickin’ it at their house every now and again, haha.  I'm so grateful to have a sister that it so supportive and such a good example of what I should be, she was always there to keep me company or to invite me with her if I didn't have anyone to hang out with.  I'm also grateful for Ty too and for how much he cares for her.  Tell them all that I love them.  Well this is another short one but not much different  happened this week.  We are doing awesome and I love it here.  It feels so good to see hard work pay off.

Love you guys,

Elder Pincock

I Love General Conference!!

Hey, what's up family and friends reading this… How's it?  Molokai is awesome!  The people are the best! 

Our teaching is going pretty good.  We are teaching some good lessons.  We have like 4 maybe 5 baptisms pending, our goal is 7 for the month of October.  It's gonna be awesome when we get it.  My comp Elder Davis is an awesome missionary and I am happy to work with him.  He loves the work and genuinely wants to help these people. 

Our District is sweet!  Elder Maybon is an awesome district leader.  He's only been out like 7 months and Elder Davis has been out a year last week. 

I LOVE GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!!  It's so weird to me that I love it so much.  It's like Christmas.  It is pretty much Heavenly Father speaking to us and telling us what we need to do to live better lives.  It always gives me the extra pick up that I need and gets me motivated again to do the work.  "We are being raised in enemy territory" but "LUCIFER WILL LOSE"! haha,  Love it.  You asked me about what times we watch it here in Hawaii and the first session starts at 6am and the second session is at 10am.  We had to get up pretty early, but it was worth it.  

So our house is set in stone (no pun intended).  That's awesome.  Is it weird that I am glad that I get to come back to that little old house?  I think it is.  Dad sold the gray mule?  Well guess what… there are a bunch of mules here on Molokai somewhere.  Some guy uses them to take people down to Kaulapapa, the leper colony (yeah you read that right).  I think we are going down there soon.  But we probably will just hike down.  I'm pretty sad about that, but maybe I will be able to meet that guy.   

So it's getting colder...  Man I miss snow, snowboarding mostly.  I can't believe it is already October.  So is Andrew coming home in 4 months?!  Wow!  That's crazy. 

Well sorry it's another short one this week.  Love you guys.  You are awesome!

I'm so grateful to be on a mission and grateful to be in Molokai.  I'm grateful to be able to serve Jesus Christ.  It is the very least I could do for him compared to what he did for me.  

Later,

Elder Pincock 

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