Aloha mi Ohana!
I'm guessing all of you have seen the news, (It sounds like that from the letters I have received) there has been some concern about the hurricane hiring the Hawaiian islands. I can safely say that we have beaten Irma and are ready for the next two that are predicted to hit (Norman and Miriam).
Despite this hurricane, the work has gone well, very well in fact, me and my companion last week have started teaching a Sunday class at a reform school (a national guard youth camp). The kids in the class are very respectful. When they speak to us they address us using "yes sir" and "thank you sir" and they even raise their hands! For their age They are incredibly easy to teach! They have also been receptive to our lessons as well. They ask plenty of sincere questions, and the best part about this is half the class are not members who want to learn more!
On top of this last week we invited the youth who attended the class to bring 1 other person in the camp to our next lesson. They totaled about 11 our first time, and this week we had about 23!!!
We asked them to do the same for this week. So if they do this we will have 46 people to teach! That's an insane number for only 2 missionaries to handle (so we might require help). One of the biggest blessings that has come about because of this class is these kids have little to no religious knowledge. Even the members seem to be from inactive families. I would say only about 2 youth out of the 23 are active. One is a recent convert who was baptized right before coming to the camp and the other seems to be somewhat familiar with the doctrines of our church.
These youth are an amazing example of maturity. All of them have come to this camp by choice. They stay there for a 5 month term. (In short this place is a youth boot camp). I enjoy our lessons we have going over to teach them.
There is a such a great potential here, to plant "seeds" at this school so when these youth get out and begin to figure life out, they will at least know God cares about them and he has a plan even though it might seem otherwise.
I am Sorry this is so short, we had our temple trip today so this is also our p-day. We did not get back until the mid afternoon I Love you guys! Stay strong.
With much Aloha
Elder Esplin
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