Aloha mi amigos! Funny thing about the mission is a lot of the days blend together, so when I'm talking to my family I have to have my journal with me to tell them about my week or else I don't remember a lot of what I did, haha, and I know that it's the same way for Hayden because we'll get on and talk and my mom will ask what he did during his week and he'll just say " I don't even know." So I'm not alone in this, but that being said I'll look at my journal so I can send emails with content, haha.
This past week I decided to pray to recognize God's love for me throughout the week. I felt and realized personally that I felt God's love through my great parents and family, my friends, The Book of Mormon, and above all through Jesus Christ and His Atonement! I know that God definitely, without a doubt, loves me and each one of us infinitely and equally, if you don't know that He loves you, then ask! And you will receive an answer, and you will realize how much Heavenly Father loves you!
From the dying words of my ZL- Whatever we expect, will happen (the law of attraction). And "The more positive you see, the more positive you'll be!"
Last Monday on P-day we went to volcano national park and it was pretty sick but I thought there was gonna be more to it and maybe there was and we just didn't hit it all.
After that since it was one of our Zone Leaders last p-day we went where he wanted to eat and he chose Ken's House of Pancakes. At Ken's they have these "sumo" plates and since one of my football coaches gave me some money to spend on me and my trainer (shoutout Coach Kam), I bought me and my companion the Sumo Stacker which was 3 huge "sumo size" buttermilk pancakes with 3 fried eggs on top, Portuguese sausage underneath the 1st pancake, and 3 strips of bacon underneath the 2nd pancake. They had all of these amazing syrups as well. This waiter bet me $10 I wouldn't finish it, so since I hadn't eaten breakfast and it was my cheat day, I decided to eat the whole thing. It was so good and I didn't eat for like a whole day after that, haha. The waiter was shocked and said he hadn't seen anyone finish it before, so I guess I'm just built different (totally kidding) but he offered the $10 and I turned it away but it was nice to see that he kept his word.
On Thursday, I went on exchanges in Pahoa, and Pahoa is one of the most dangerous areas in Hawaii so that's fun. It wasn't actually that bad though. We had a lesson with this member who's trying to get the Melchizedek Priesthood and we taught him about the commandments. This guy is super cool and he coaches like 7 club basketball teams in Hawaii and he played basketball at the University of Hawaii and he was on the team in, I think 1997, who upset Paul Pierce and #2 Kansas, so that's pretty sick.
Later that day we went to Mark's place to preach the gospel and play cards with his friends. Mark lives in this storage container/makeshift shelter and we got there and he and his 2 friends were absolutely drunk out of their minds. Mark started giving a drunk sermon and his friend started talking during his sermon and Mark threatened to hit him if he didn't shut up and they almost started fighting a couple of different times. His friend at one point decided to challenge me to an arm wrestle. So we did it, and at first I was winning but then this guy started moving his elbow all around the table. Then he got right up next to me and if I would've kept pushing his arm down I would've broken it or dislocated his elbow so I just stopped, and then he moved back and he just dead weighted himself to the floor, so he did win I guess haha. But after he said that I let him win and we'll keep that between us, that I did let him win.
We went to this guys house to help with service and they live on this property that has a ton of fruit trees. And something that I love about Hawai'i is all of the awesome delicious fruit. There are so many that I didn't even know existed but are sooooo GOOD! I also ate my first mango this week and I think I found my new favorite fruit.
Love you all! Bless up this week.
-Elder Shockley
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