Elder Kyle LaBarre's Hawaiian Mission: October 6, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008

October 6, 2008

This is exerpts from Kyle's e-mail today, mind you I didn't remove anything of relevance. I'm trying to get information out of him. If you want a question asked and answered, just put it as a comment to any of the entries and I will be sure the question is asked and answered! Also, we'd love to see who is following Kyle's mission...so leave comments!! Love to you all!

"The investigators that I've met are Tiffany and we just got 2 more on Saturday by referral, Christine and her daughter! She wanted a chinese Book of Mormon because she's a linguist for the army and wants to learn her chinese better! And learn a lil about our church and beliefs and her daughter is 11 and interested and familiar already with the church! So thats cool. Tiffany and Geoff Browne. Geoff is less active but we're working on him too! So that's good and Tiffany is pregnant and they have 2 others (younger than 8). Mililani is on Oahu and it's about as far from the ocean that you can get on the island! ha ha My companion is Tyson Kaiser and he's from Broomfield, Colorado! So that's cool!"

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The church and missionary work have a long history in Hawaii beginning with the arrival of a group of missionaries in 1850 that included George Q. Cannon. There are number of sources on the internet where you can learn much about the history of the church in Hawaii. One I have run across is an excellent brief history, located here, that was written by R. Lanier Britsch. There is also a great deal that can be learned by reading from the many papers (available here,) presented over the years at conferences of the Mormon Pacific Historical Society.

The Hawaii Honolulu Mission encompasses the entire state of Hawaii as well as 11 islands in the North Pacific. Within the state of Hawaii, the mission is broken into eleven zones (see map below). Of those zones, seven are on Oahu. The bulk of the population of Hawaii lives on Oahu, and the church has 10 stakes on Oahu. The stakes and zones match up one for one with the exception of the Laie zone. Laie is where BYU-Hawaii, the Polynesian Cultural Center, and the Hawaii temple are located. It is also (not surprisingly) where the highest concentration of church members can be found. There are two student stakes and two regular stakes located in this zone. The majority of the missionaries serving in the Laie zone are sisters who are assigned to the Visitor's Center.

The Maui zone is unique in the fact that it covers three islands. There is one branch on the island of Lanai, and two wards on the island of Molokai that are part of the Maui stake and zone.

Missionaries assigned to serve on Molokai or Lanai get a rare experience, although most missionaries have an opportunity to serve "off island" (on any island other than Oahu) at least once.

With regard to the 11 islands of the North Pacific that fall within the mission, only 2 have branches of the church. Christmas Island in the Republic of Kiribati is part of the mission and, as of last report, the branch there is doing so well that in addition to the missionary couple that has been assigned there for several years, a pair of elders have recently been assigned as well. Johnston Island also has a dependant branch which is directed by the mission.

The mission "officially" teaches in nine languages (as of last report,) but the bulk of the missionaries called are English speaking. The other eight languages are Tongan, Samoan, Ilocano, Tagalog, Japanese, Mandarin, Marshallese, and Korean. While missionaries are called to teach in these languages, there are usually not very many serving (only 1 or 2 for some languages) and they rarely have a companion who has been called to teach in the same language.

Elder Kyle LaBarre's Hawaiian Mission

Monday, October 6, 2008

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