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This week has been an adventure to say the least. I learned a lot if nothing else. I learned that missionary work is really just loving and inviting, and loving some more. No other tactic. If that even is a tactic. It's not a game. I don't need to worry about what to say. That and I really don't have a ton of control of whether or not people accept the us or not. And I don't expect everyone to. I just want to help lift people a little higher. We are real people who get to love everyone! I mean I knew this before, but it really just clicked this past week. Don't know why it took so long.

This week Sister Dayton and I had a couple of experiences this past where we invited into someone's home and then they proceed to attack, tear down and mock our beliefs. Not overly fun. But, I suppose it's part of the missionary calling. It happened to Christ, the early apostles, probably to every missionary that has ever walked this Earth, so why should we be the exceptions? Each time as we walked away we would first shake our heads in disbelief as to how people could be so rude, and then reflect on how thing they said did not shake us or our faith one bit. It brought to mind Jacob 7:5. I mean I haven't seen angels or anything but, I do know that the the gospel is true. 

One happier note, we've also had some great success this week. One night we were making our way to the church to help with preparations for the upcoming Lu'au. We were running a tad bit behind but, saw a former investigator, and chatted to him for a couple minutes. As we we're talking with him, a man that we had talked to a couple days before walked past. We finished our conversation, waved to the other man and walked a few steps further. Both Sister Dayton and I felt we needed to talk to the man but, by this time we were most definitely late. Then Sister Dayton looked straight at me and said "Time is not the issue". So we went back and talked to him. Turns out he was really happy to talk with us again, and asked if we could talk some time about our religion. Later that night he called us and asked to meet sometime! Very exciting!

I don't have time to email anything else but, I just want to let you know that you are all amazing and that this gospel is worth it.

Rakkaudella, 

Sister Kastendieck