A Day In The Life!

Please enjoy my journal entry from Thursday, I loved that day! 

 

 

"Tonight as I was driving home I was thinking about all that had happened today and what the best parts were. I then thought,  "well it was a pretty basic day today, not much happened" but then I quickly realized that "isn't everyday like that?" It's so true! When I look through the perspective of "what did I do today?" Every single day is going to be pretty similar. You wake up at the same time, you do personal study, companionship study, meals, time with our members, and shifts at the visitor center and teaching center. It's the small things inside of your basic schedule that makes everyday different. 

 

 

We were able to meet with the cutest Tahitian couple for lunch that just moved into our ward. We had frozen pizza made in a cake pan because they didn't have a flat pan with a nice big glass of sunny-d... oh and a bowl of oreos for dessert. They are both 19 years old and have been married for a year. It was crazy to me but part of the reason I love being in a married student ward. Everyone is basically the same age only in a totally different stage of life. I told them that I have a couple friends serving in Tahiti and their reply was "Oh no, they are going to gain a lot of weight" . It was so funny! We talked about spiritual gifts that we have and how I am starting to love photography and they said they wanted to get anniversary pictures because they never took wedding pictures so I am going to take pictures of them next week, I'm so excited! They told us that he was baptized in December of 2020 and neither of them have gone through the temple but they want to! We invited them to come to temple prep class with us next week, hopefully they will come! 

 

 

We had trams tonight and I had two of the best experiences! I love the Polynesian cultural center and hawaii! The first one was with a Russian family from California. They showed up to the pcc at 5:00 and didn't realize that it closed at 5:30. I felt so bad they couldn't go inside so I Invited them to come on the free tram tour.. They had nothing else going on so they said sure why not.. They were 1 of 3 families on the tour so it was pretty small. When we got to the temple we realized that they don't speak a ton of English. But they did tell us that it was 3 years ago today that they moved to California from Russia. We couldn't communicate with them super well but we invited them inside the visitor center and were able to play the Christus narration for them in Russian. At the end I bore my testimony to them that heavenly father and Jesus christ are so aware of them and love them so much. We gave them a couple of pamphlets in Russian and they were on their way! It's hard not knowing what will happen next with them but I just have to keep having faith that what I did was enough! 

 

 

The next thing that happened at the pcc was one of my favorite moments at the pcc! It was towards the end of the night and it was dark outside when a little Indian family came up to me. There was a mom, dad, and little girl who was really sad. They told me their hotel messed up their reservation and they were supposed to go to the luau (where you get leis) but they were only scheduled for the buffet. The girl was sad because she wanted a lei. I told them there is a gift shop that sells fake ones but the little girl said she wanted a real one. I told her I would go inside the luau and see what I could do. I talked to a few people and eventually they found an extra lei for that night. I walked out and put it on her and she was SO happy, it made my whole week being able to help her! Her name was Mila and I obviously took a picture with her" 

 

 

With much love, Sister Crowley