Ensign State Of Mind

Sister Pennock and I Aloha family a me friends! New transfer. New companion. New year. New me.  Lots of news happening over here and with my year mark coming up this upcoming week (say whaaat?!), I feel like this is more of a New Year type of dealio than January 1 was for me (lol missions are odd k).  I've been out for a year? I've been in Bermuda for three months already? Life is weird. So often as people we can be hard on ourselves. We will often look at what we are not. We want and expect ourselves to run the full marathon, without doing the mile by mile trainings.  I will often see the 10000 and 1 things that I know that I am not. At times, I will admit, I am too hard on myself. More often than not, as humans, we look at what we aren't instead of acknolwedging all that we are.  Nevertheless, we aren't perfect and neither does our Father in Heaven expect perfection today. In fact, perfection is pending. As Jeffrey R. Holland eloquently put it: 

Aloha ko'u ohana a me ko'u hoaaloha,  Miracle Line. Tuesday morning. President Teuscher: "In this mission, we have a tradition of making week 6 the BEST week of the transfer"  Baptism Pictures!!!  Meet Jamie! Love her! And lemme tell you. I can testify to what President Tesucher said is true. It was another bomb diggty week for the books. Ending this transfer and week off with three friends on baptismal date, eight souls at church, and two new peeps to teach. And not to mention, eating many many many meals with members. Furthermore...I testify that the key to people's heart (well at least mines) is food. And maybe just maybe we had so many people at church because we had a potluck for Sister Howells and Elder K and because we had a General Authority come speak to us.  But we will give everyone the benefit of the doubt and know that they all came to truly remember our Savior and refocus on Him. Elder David Buckner, a member of the Sev

Aloha Family a me Friends, "Two times four is half of sixteen! All for the...(not warriors)..LORD! Stand up and lean!" Nope not a cheerleader but I am on the Lord's team for sure ;)  Some things never change in this universe. Like the fact that 2 + 2 = 4 or a^2 + b^2 = c^2 or that a circle is 360 degrees and the list can go on and on. We may change but the one constant variable of life is God's love.  Never gets old God loves you.  He loves you and every one of His children. He knows us and answers our prayers. As we were sitting in district council this past Tuesday, we get a call from a member saying that she would verbally kill her brother to the point that he would commit suicide. Within five minutes, all six missionaries on the island were at her door. Seconds after she was pleading with God to give her a sign. And lo and behold her sign was as she exclaimed while sobbing on the phone to many people "SIX missionaries! Son of a bi

Island life with a dash of that British culture with the telephone things Aloha Family a me Friends :)  Still so surreal to me that it is 2019. Weird stuff honestly. Weird to think about a year ago I was at home. So much has happened and it's certainly been the adventure of a life time. Life is far too short to be wasting time.  It seems as though everyone we were talking to were either going to the hospital or knew of someone going to the hospital.  Cool little alleys in town On Thursday one of our members, Sister A., her mom went to the hospital because of a severe cause of pneumonia (the first thing that I thought was oh no my dog passed away from pneumonia). On Saturday night our appointment fell through and we had just hiked up to finish this hill that we started knocking a few weeks back. We knocked a couple of doors and with no success, Sister Howells asked me: "Is there any other way we could more effectively be using our time?". I paused fo