Elder Amoni Ka'ili Mission Journey: Prepare at a young age to serve a mission.....

This week was so good!! To start we had a mission Christmas Party with the whole north part of our mission! It was seriously like a day off.. which was sort of weird but awesome! We played ping pong and you already know I gave everyone that work... until my mission president came down to the basement to play and beat me.... He literally came down played me, beat me and then walked back upstairs.. hahah reminds me of my grandpa Ka'ili playing ping pong haha. I think the older you get the better your spin gets or something! Haha But I definitely chocked under the pressure because I was up and then let him come back.. haha we will see a rematch is soon to happen between us lol! But yeah after hanging out for a while we all got to eat some super fancy brunch and then everyone piled into the living room and we watched Coco! Such a good movie for real! After the movie we did a zone talent show and i'm not gonna lie, our zone probably had the worst skit haha but it was fun. A CRAZY change also happened to close the party. In our mission we are not eating with members during the week, but we all received crock pots to make ourselves dinner now. We are doing this so we can have 5PM open to work and tract. They did this in another mission and the mission saw their baptisms double. I'm super pumped about this change because more tracting=more finding=more investigators=more baptisms=more people living the gospel of Jesus Christ=more people being happy! And I can't wait to make my moms meatballs lol! But yeah the Christmas party was lit and its always super fun to see the other missionaries from different parts of the missions that you don't normally see!

This week I really wanted to up my study game and have better studies! I was talking to my comp about it and he said that an elder that served here a while back was a super smart dude and made an outline of how to get a good personal study in! Its called the Donakee Outline and holy habit it has changed my whole studies for the better! During my studies this week I really focused on obedience and time management! I have realized in my mission that OBEDIENCE makes the whole day. If you want to have a good day be obedient, if you want to have a crappy day don't be. Its as simple as that! Obedience ties in with time management as well, as we are obedient to the time schedule in the morning and throughout the day we will be able to have the spirit stronger because we are doing what we need to be doing! Being obedient also brings happiness! Obedient Missionaries are Happy Missionaries and I have noticed and seen that in my mission a ton.

Something else that we have been really focusing on this week is cleaning up the area book and cleaning up our teaching pool. Man it is so hard and sad to drop people... You know that this gospel can help them in their lives and can change their lives but they just have a hard time accepting it. It sucks but everyone has their time and as we have faith in the lords time table I believe that everything will work out! #CREEPYPHONECALLWAVERLY #BLESSINGS

Church yesterday was so good. Me and my companion felt like we needed to sit in on the teachers quorum class and I am so grateful we did. Their lesson was about preparing for a mission! As the class went on we were talking about things that could help them prepare and the teacher was asking us a lot of questions and to share experiences. One of the questions he asked us was what we did for the last 19-20 years of our lives to prepare to serve a mission? I answered him saying that getting that desire to go on a mission from a young age will make your decision when you turn 18 super easy. I shared that ever since I was a young kid I always wanted to serve a mission because my parents served one and my grandparents on both sides were always serving missions so to me serving a mission was something that looked super fun to me. I told the boys that, the desire of serving a mission that I had from a young age helped me during trials in my life and with temptation.. During middle school and high school there were a lot of temptations that I went thru, some that I fell into and some that I didn't and that was because I always had on my mind that I wanted to serve a mission! If it wasn't for that desire I don't know where I would be today probably not on a mission... So it told them that getting that desire is something super important and doing the things to strengthen that desire is going to make the decision even easier. I told them if you don't have that desire yet, pray about it and get that desire because every worthy able young men should serve a mission.. no questions about it. The teacher added on after a story about Jerry Rice and why he was the best WR ever because he practiced something over and over again until it became a reflex to his body... and then he related it to making a decision to go on a mission. We need to start doing things that will lead our minds to missions so that when the time comes to submit your papers, your body just reacts and sends them in. Super good class and a real testimony builder for me about preparing and serving a mission!

Ahh I love being a missionary and being able to serve in Washington Spanish Speaking is seriously the biggest blessing in my life right now! I didn't think serving a mission would bring this much happiness but it has and I am truly grateful for the opportunity to serve one! I love you all and hope you guys all have a good week! Christmas is next week too! Light The World is still going too! Life is so good right now! Living the gospel brings so many blessing, I can't say it enough! I love you all!

Con Amor,
Elder Ka'ili