One of the young women got baptized this month! Her name is Kaya and she was invited by her friends (the other girls in yw's) to come to church and the yws activities. Her dad enjoyed taking her and meeting the other members of the ward and they both decided to take the lessons and be baptized! Kaya is the sweetest little thing and I have loved watching the other girls love her and teach her. On her baptism day, she sat on a chair at the church while all the other girls brushed her long hair. They told her Kaya don't be nervous you will do great," you are going to do so good," and "you are so brave." It was so sweet. I loved watching her smile. We as a presidency chipped in to get her a set of scriptures Red is her favorite color so we got her own red scripture set. The bookstore was kind and shipped them in 2 days when I told them it was for an 11-year-old girl getting baptized. She was so happy when she opened it. The other girls also spoiled her with so many, flowers. It was such a precious and beautiful baptism. Kaya shared her testimony about how happy she is when she is at church. Rutsy talked about his joy in knowing he can be with his daughter forever!
We had homemade crepes afterward in the parking lot. A ton of people from the ward showed up to support her.
The following Monday Gavin and I decided to take the missionaries on a hike! We decided to do a waterfall one because the missionaries said they wanted to see an awesome one! We were thrilled when we found out Elder Howells is now serving on Kauai. We fed him his very first dinner on Oahu back when we were dating. We had so much catching up. Some of the missionaries weren't as prepared for the hike. One of them started hiking with his airpods in and shortly up the path they fell out in the stream... The sisters came in sweatpants and tennis that got soaked... They were all there for the adventure though. When we got to the waterfall Gavin jumped right in and was swimming enjoying the water. The missionaries watched and kept talking about how refreshing the water was. As we were there enjoying the falls I looked over and saw they were slowly getting deeper and deeper into the water. Soon they were up to their knees and they were bending down putting the top of their head in the water and then flinging it up in the air. Then out of nowhere Gavin came and tackled E Howells into the water. He was submerged completely and the other missionaries started roaring in laughter. I guess this missionary was just the AP before he came to Kauai so he has been a little strict on the rules. I secretly think he liked being pushed in because he was smiling quite big after. On the way back down one of the other Elders fell off the rock into the pool of water below. Darn, it! ;)
But we sure did have a good time goofing off with the missionaries good times good times!
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