3/30/15
Just kidding!!! Haha! I
guess I'll write you guys a full letter with a little more explanation as to
what all happened this last week but be warned this was yet another pretty
INSANE week!!!! So it started out normal enough, just more "home teaching
visits" to the 90% of our ward that is less-active in Ka'u, some service
at people's houses, and a LOT of driving around, when right in the middle of
this huge service projects mowing down these GIANT weeds that took over a one
of our member's yard, I noticed we had a missed call from our zone leaders and
from the mission president. So of course we stop what we are doing and call
them back only to find out that the next morning I would be emergency
transferred to Pahoa (still in our zone, actually in our district too!) because
the Elder there needed to go to Oahu and they needed someone who could drive
around the Elder staying since he's from Samoa and doesn't have an American
License... soo.. long story short, I am now in the Pahoa ward with Elder Young
Yen (a 3/4th full blooded Samoan that just happens to have a Chinese last name)
and while his companion is in Honolulu and my old companion is now with the
Elder that came from Honolulu because he is also Samoan and can't drive here.
Anyway, the craziness doesn't stop there!! So I got ET-ed over here on Friday
and Saturday the Pahoa Elders had a baptism set up for two little girls
(Deserae and Jaylisao Otokichy.... I'm sorry I might have spelled their names
wrong but you get the idea.) So technically I got my 2nd and 3rd baptism here
on the mission but I also kind of cheated yet again! :P My first baptism
(Rainbow) was already active for two years and I just happened to be there for
her 18th birthday and my next two I transferred into literally a day before
their baptism!! I didn't even teach them ANYTHING!! hahaha!! But either way it
was great to get to see them be baptized and I actually got to do the
confirmation for one of them yesterday at church so that was extra special! I
guess I did participate at least that much so I don't feel too bad taking at
least a tiny bit of credit for it! haha! So there's a little bit of explanation
behind that picture I sent! :) (the girls that got baptized are the two in the
middle with the Lei's on.)
So yeah, this too has
been an odd week for us in Hawaii! haha! And what makes it even odder is now
that I have settled into a new house with a new companion and new ward and had
a baptism in the matter of three days... I will almost definitely still be
getting transferred back to Oahu next week on the actual transfer day! haha! So
you don't have to worry too much about past problems with the hurricane or the
lava flow that is going straight through our area, (that's a real thing, I'll
send a picture! haha) soon enough I'll be back in a big city, crowed with
people from all over the world, sharing the Gospel and hopefully setting in
this time for more than a month and a half!! (suddenly six months in one area
like I had in Kane'ohe doesn't sound too bad!) So yeah, that's kind of my
update out here! hopefully everything is continuing to go well for you folks
back in Az!!! I sure miss it out there but I'm learning to love it even more
than I already do out here which I thought would be impossible and yet it keeps
happening every day! :)
Be sure to send my love
and aloha to all the Groberg family living in our house, hopefully there is
nothing too rancid or embarrassing left in my room! haha! And also huge
congrats to Joe and Dad on tour! I know how hard that "little birds"
song is both on the piano and vocally. Eric Whitacre is one crazy guy but he
sure does write some incredible stuff! haha Also be sure to tell the guy who
did our new pantry thank you for all that he did and mom I will be happy to
re-do it when I get back if it hasn't driven you crazy after a year or so!
hahaha! Anyway, I guess it's just like having a little bit of country right
there in our little city house! hahaha! It would definitely fit in with most of
the houses out here on Big Island! Well I gotta go but thank you again so much
guys for all that you do. I really do love you so much and pray for you always!
Send all of my aloha to everyone back there as well as an apology for all the
people who have written or e-mailed me that I haven't gotten back too... I am
still just about as scatterbrained as I was back home if not more so finding
free time that happens to overlap with and the mental capacity to respond to
letter back home is just about non-existent for me! :P haha! but I do
appreciate them and will get back to each of you as soon as possible!!! :)
Mahalo nui loa!! I love you all! Have a great week! Stay strong, carry on and
don't forget to be awesome!!!!
Ofa lahi atu!!
-Elder (Luke) Powell
p.s. the beaches out here
come in all sorts of different colors! haha Black sand, green sand, white sand,
but they all have one thing in common! ...............we're not allowed to walk
on any of them.... :P BUT we are allowed to go close enough to them to take
some cool pictures of them! hahaha!! So yeah, that's just one of the many
exciting scenic things we did this last week! :)
Also this is what the
Lava flow looks like after it's wiped out everything in its path and cooled
down a bit (don't worry, none of this stuff is still flowing it's all solid....
but the flow is still going about 200 yards further down the road! haha! Also
what a real profession HAM radio operator looks like doing his thing! I'm
definitely going to hang out with Bro. Rachiel if the lava burns down all other
forms of communication cause this guy knows what he's doing with his HAM! :)
haha
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