Transfer news

We had an awesome week! I got transfer news and lucky to say all is staying the same! So I'll be in Mililani for 6 months! haha kinda funny.. 2 areas in one year! But I'm really grateful I get to stay another transfer here. The ward is amazing! And we have a lot of work as well.. So time just flies. 

We are teaching a new family as well! The Brown family. She is a returning less active and wants to take all the lessons again! She has two boys who aren't members and are around my age. She told us it's been really hard, because the boys will ask her questions but she doesn't know the answers.. So she decided to give us a call so we can teach them. They are an awesome family! She is excited because she feels like this is giving her a backbone again in the gospel. After the lesson the spirit was so strong! She was so grateful after a couple tears she told us she forgot what she has been missing out on all these years of not coming to church. It was a awesome testimony booster. 

Other than that, we're just keeping busy and trying to work hard! haha It's been a little rough because I've tracted out our whole area and been through every name in our area book! So now when we go tracting or go through our area book, a lot of people recognize me from last time after they told me no.. haha whoops! But everything is going great! 

I love you guys! 
Elder Collings

After one of our lessons we were given a watermelon... Don't know why, but we were. So of course I ate it. But a member saw us and thought it was funny and wanted to take a picture since I was eating it with a knife. Haha.

Mom here... I received a letter from President and Sister Chatfield. They were just released as Mission President and Wife of the Uganda Kampala Mission. They were visiting family in Hawaii, and took our missionary and his companion to dinner. Made us so happy!!

100 Lessons

This is the last week of transfers here! I'm hoping I stay one more transfer because we have all our baptisms lined up in September! Rubin is being baptized September 9th! He has been taking the lessons for over 7 years and I've been working with him ever since I got here! And now finally he is going to be baptized! So I hope I'm here... But if not I know the Lord needs me somewhere else! For district meeting we are going to have a testimony meeting since everyone is so new in my district! Almost all the companionship's have been out for less than 4 months hahaha so it'll be fun to hear their testimonies and see how they have grown over the past 6 weeks! I made a goal this transfer and wanted our district to hit 100 total lessons in a week and we finally did it!!!  This transfer has had so many blessings/miracles and I can't wait to see what happens next. I love you!

August 16th

We had a great week! Found a new family we are teaching and Rubin's baptism is now set for September 10th! We are just waiting for his family to fly in from Samoa to come. We've had a great transfer and the work has grown so much! Life is good and I hope you have a great week! I loved reading your letter! Love you :)

Mom's worried

Great week. Lots of visits and tracting! We had to drop one of investigators with a baptismal date since he moved to Texas... But the same week got another baptism set up for a guy named Richard B. So it'll be fun to work with him! All is good! 

(Not sure I like this picture... mom)

Super Great Week

Super great week! me and Elder Heinburger had 38 lessons this week. and our district combined for 99 lessons in one week. Super cool to see all of the tender mercys the Lord provided for us. 

Being district leader is pretty fun! I thought it would be a little harder but I enjoy it a lot! It's been really fun to go on exchanges with other elders. 

We had our temple trip today so I wasn't able to write yesterday sorry about that! But everything is going great and the church is true! 

Love you all and thanks for everything.

New Companion

We had an awesome week this week! Said goodbye to Elder Livaie! He'll be going back to Honolulu for his last transfer of his mission! 

And then I picked up Elder Heinburger! He's going to be such a good missionary! He was real excited to go out and start working. 

We had 3 baptismal commitments this week and 27 total lessons! It was defiantly one of the best weeks on my mission. Elder Heinburger is from Heber city but has been living in California for the past year going to school, so he graduated the same year as me! His hobbies are traveling around the world! He has had some really crazy stories haha. I was able to introduce him to some of the local foods down here as well haha its been so fun! He reminds me of myself at the beginning of my mission. 

Everything is going well! I hope the same to all of you. 
Love you guys!!

Leadership changes

I love reading your guys emails home! This week was super crazy haha! I'm not really sure how but we met three different people all in one week and they all want to be baptized! Two of them have baptismal dates now and the other we are meeting with him this Sunday! 

On top of that we had transfers! And Elder Livaie got transferred after only three weeks! But I got called as a Trainer and District Leader. The elder I'll be training is Elder Heinburger from Heber Utah! haha it's going to be a very fun couple of months! I'm pretty excited to meet him! 

I've met my new mission president a couple times! I love them! He's going to do great. His wife is very spunky haha! She is so sweet though. 

Everything is going great, I've been blessed to see so many miracles so far on my mission! 

I love you guys and hope you have a great week! 

Elder Collings