Aloha Ohana and Haoaloha,
I feel like it was just yesterday that I was emailing... wow is the time flying by! I feel like it is just zipping by! I guess all I can do is pray and enjoy the rollercoaster :) I am trying my best to catch all the moments before they pass me by and then trying to just truly enjoy this work because I know I will never be involved in it like I am now. This week had some awesome moments the first starting last Monday - we did a family home evening with Doresty and her family, the Langu family and the Erakdrik family. It was a lot more than I was expecting but it was so much fun and we made it work :) So all of these people have been given scriptures that sometimes get left around or pages bent and just not well kept; so, Sister Harris and I had the idea to help them make their own scripture cases because money to buy them all cases was kinda out of any of our budgets. So we learned about how important the scriptures are and how we should respect them as the word of God. Then we took boxes we had collected and sized them to fit the scriptures, had colorful ducktape to keep the sides together, we had them color in CTR (choose the right) shield, old church magazines that they could find pictures or words they liked and then with packing tape we got those on too! I hope those instructions made sense. They turned out so cute! My favorite part was helping the little 5 year olds tape on the pictures they liked and then looking up to see the 50 year olds laughing and finding pictures and taping them onto their own box. It was just a moment where I looked around the room and found a piece of heaven!
We had zone meeting this week and it was really good. I left feeling very uplifted which is not always the case but I really liked the topics and training we were given. Anyways, right after we were able to go and see Zana at the church and she is just so amazing. It was a really good lesson, I feel like we were able to understand some of the roots of her concerns. She is still praying about baptism - she wants this to all be true but she is struggling letting Christ in to heal her from her past. We talked about some of the questions and doubts that she has.Then at the end she said the closing prayer and thanked Heavenly Father for the two girls in front of her (us) and that we have become her friends. Another moment where it feels like heaven. Sometimes as a missionary, or at least for me, I love these people so much and only hope that they love us back! When they do it is such a great feeling :)
So last week Pono brought two friends with him to church and we were able to meet them and then Pono brought one with him to his lesson this past week. We were able to teach his friend about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. The Spirit was so strong as we all talked and Pono told his friend how much he loved what he had been learning and the decision he made to be baptized and join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The friend wants to be baptized! Unfortunately, he leaves today for Oahu so I guess missionaries there will get to teach him more. I guess its only fair since Pono was referred to us by some missionaries on Oahu.
Sad moment of the week was when I had my last interview with President Warner on July 4th. It was a bitter sweet moment of knowing that I have done the best that I could and have loved it so much and am so excited to go home but also sad that it is ending; everything is changing. The sad fact of life is that it is always changing, we just have to enjoy all the changes and different opportunities we are given. To celebrate the 4th we went to Poipu with the Marshallese families and played volleyball and had sparklers with them. I just love how much they laugh and smile! Their hearts are so pure. I find it so ironic that here I am surrounded by all of these islanders and I am the only white one; yet, I feel at home and wouldn’t want it any other way. Family is who you make it to be. I left home with what I thought was big family; now I am close to coming home and my family has grown drastically! Not a bad week when you find all of these little peices of heaven! 
Life is full, my heart is bursting and its the oddest feeling; but one that I never want to lose. I dont know what to feel anymore so I just feel and I like it this way. Im continuing to work, to laugh, and to love! I love the people here. I love you back home! And I know that God is good always! Anij ej emman aloep iien! (marshallese) Ofa atu! Arohanui! Poake poake yuk! Aishiteru! Alofa iate oe! Narong seiho! Mahal kita! Yokwe yuk! Aloha wau ia te oe!
Love Always,
Sister Cassidy Jean Lang
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