9/2/14
As for this week, it's
been, not surprisingly, another very long, very hot, and very exhausting week!
But of course it was also another amazing week being in the service of the
Lord! :) I don't have too much new stuff to report on (which is good cause I
don't have too much time to report on it either! :P sorry!) But, one highlight
was we got a new investigator!! Whoo! His name is D. and while he has some
issues and he's not sure he really wants to change yet, he's still very
interested in learning AND he walked for almost an hour to come to church on Sunday!!
It was awesome!! Anyway, I also gave a talk on Sunday which went great! :)
9/8/14
Dear family!!
Sorry for the late
response! I promise I didn't forget you all! But as you know yesterday was a
holiday so the library was closed, but we did get special permission from the
Zone Leaders to e-mail today, so... yeah! Here is it!
As for this week, it's
been, not surprisingly, another very long, very hot, and very exhausting week!
But of course it was also another amazing week being in the service of the
Lord! :) I don't have too much new stuff to report on (which is good cause I
don't have too much time to report on it either! :P sorry!) But, one highlight
was we got a new investigator!! Whoo! His name is D. and while he has some
issues and he's not sure he really wants to change yet, he's still very
interested in learning AND he walked for almost an hour to come to church on Sunday!!
It was awesome!! Anyway, I also gave a talk on Sunday which went great! :)
Sorry! I totally miss
judged and I'm like completely out of time!! But I guess if there was one thing
I really gained a testimony of this week it was the power of prayer! It is more
strong than any of us I think could ever imagine!! NEVER under estimate the
power of a sincere and heartfelt prayer! He hears you and he loves you and
wants to bless you as you do what he asks.
Anyway, I love you all!
Thank you again for all you do! I promise next week I will write a little more!
Keep on doing what you do and of course don't forget to be awesome!! :)
-Elder Powell
Aloha Ohana!!
Howzit!? Sorry, as always
I'm a little short on time to e-mail, but it was great to hear from you all and
especially great to hear your mad ramblings dad, in case you haven't noticed
that is how I tend to talk as well so it's always wonderful to hear from someone
who speaks my own language! :)
As for my week down here
it has been equally crazy! As you might have guessed we did a lot of.....
(dramatic pause for effect) WALKING! WHOO!! It's actually not as bad as I make
it sound, but since so much of our time is devoted to that I kind of feel
obligated to include it in the weekly e-mail. But we did do quite a few other
things which were almost as equally exciting as walking! :) For starters on
Wednesday we got to go and do service at the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor! It
was SO COOL!! September 2nd there was a HUGE celebration and presentation on
board because it marked the 69th anniversary of the official end of WWII which
took place ON the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay. So yeah we were helping clean it
all up and it was fun! :)
Also another quick
highlight of the week... WE GOT S. BACK!! :D :D :D So our dinner on Saturday
was with the family that gave us his referral in the first place and so we were
talking to the dad and he agreed that we should go check up on him and while he
still has a lot of trails and challenges he's facing he's still just as amazing
and kind and loving and open to hearing the Gospel as ever before! And his
family is HUGE to him (as it should be to any father) and so Bro. C. agreed to
take him and his kids out to see the Families display at the Laie Visitors
Center which I am REALLY excited about!!! Speaking of which we get to go to the
Temple this transfer and I'm SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!! :D :D Anyway, yeah, so we're
moving a lot slower this time but we are meeting with him again and I have
faith that he'll be pretty much ready to be baptized by the end of the year so
hopefully I'll still be in the area, but if not I'm sure whoever is will be
just as happy for him as we are! :) haha
Anyway, yeah that was
probably the biggest highlight of the week, but as always I just wanted to bear
a short testimony about Obedience this week. There tends to be an attitude in
this mission about the overall rules and council given to us by President, the
AP's and Zone Leaders (which I will admit can get a little ridiculous at times)
which I honestly got a tiny bit caught up in this last week, not to the point
of being disobedient but just where I was getting really frustrated with them
and with everything, but as always I was reading in my scriptures and praying
and I kind of realized something that I knew before but just had to be reminded
of. I think a lot of time as missionaries (and sometimes as member missionaries
even) we get caught up little nit-picky things and we want to do things our way
and well frankly sometimes our way might actually make a whole lot more sense
and be a lot easier or nicer or whatever, but, that is not what we have been
asked to do. We have been asked and covenanted to be obedient in ALL THINGS!!
That is the first law ever given to man and that is the law upon which all
other laws AND BLESSINGS have been predicated!!!
We can't see the big
picture, we don't know what he has planned for us and a lot of times we have no
clue why we're asked to do what we're asked to do and frankly IT DOES NOT
MATTER!! The only reason God has spelled out his promised blessings for many of
his commandments is because he loves us, but he doesn't have to. He is God. He
could say, Pay tithing, go to church, keep the WoW, 10 Commandments, LoC, and
everything else and just do it, and we would still be obligated and under the
same oath a covenant to do it. But he loves us soo much that he has told us the
reward. He has promised us ETERNAL LIFE!! And really that's what we are all
working towards and that, as missionaries, is what we are helping others work
towards. Surely we cannot be so selfish as to Jeopardize someone’s ETERNAL
SALVATION because we don't want have a full hour of comp study, or we want to
hang out at our members houses for a little longer than we should or because we
just don't feel like talking to the people (our own brothers and sisters I
might add) that we pass on the street.
Anyway, sorry that was a
little bit of venting mixed in with my testimony but well that's something that
I've really been trying hard to follow and well it has been really hard!! :P But yeah, overall all is well, all is well!
:) I hope you all have a wonderful week! Remember you are always in my prayers
and thoughts! I love you all and will talk to you in a week! :) Don't forget to
be awesome! :D
-Elder Powell
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