4/20/15
Aloha Ohana!
Thanks for the update on everything as
well as for your many prayers and posts on my behalf! They are felt and they
are loved just and each of you is loved so much! Now then, if I can bring
myself to form logical sentences I will try to do so. First responding to your
e-mail. Congrats Joe of your avid triathlon-ing (I could only ever bring myself
to do that triathlon once!) Well hopefully you will continue to do physical
things like that and you can get really strong and fit and especially good at basketball
(many of your future mission companions will very much appreciate a fellow
athlete... then again I suppose you will have the occasional companion who
spent all their time in the music building or playing video games and watching
science channel specials on the universe and they will very much appreciate
your non-athleticism... but as I've found out here those ones tend to be a
minority among Elders... :P haha!)
Anyway, back on topic! Congrats on your
chapel cleaning, your home teaching and your full-night sleeping (assuming you
are getting a full-night sleep, I know that is a rare thing for us here as I'm
sure it is for especially you mom and dad as well. haha) Also a HUGE congrats
to Elder Jarman!!!! I literally cannot express enough how happy I am to hear
that he has chosen this path! Oh also he is going to the Kennewich
Washington English speaking mission!! (Sister Shaeffer beat you to the punch on
that one, sorry! haha) Anyway! off on another tangent! I'm sure you are all
much more interested in what has been happening out here in Hawaii! Although
your cause to be interested in that is very well justified, I am sorry to
report that the outcome of this week was not all that exciting.... well I guess
that's a lie, there were a few things of note.
First we got to have our Zone
Conference here in Mililani on Friday and that was great of course! But what
was particularly cool was we always combine for zone conference with the
Kane'ohe zone!! And so while there were not really many missionaries left in
that zone from when I was there, I did get to talk to Elder Smith a bit (who
replaced me in the Kane'ohe 4th ward) and he told me that the work in that ward
has actually majorly picked up the last few months!! although I was sad to hear
that most of the people I was teaching have since been dropped, I was
particularly excited to hear that one lady Elder Manning and I tracted into and
never saw again before I left has actually been taking the missionary
discussions and is going to church and wants to get baptized!! so that's
awesome!!! :D Also since it's been almost a whole paragraph now since I've had
a good side note I feel I should mention that Elder Smith happens to be from Queen
Creek Arizona and was actually good friends before the mission with Hans
Alverson! :)
ANYWAY! Back to Mililani!! So the other
major highlight of this week I'd have to say was our lesson with C! So we have
been teaching this young man named C who is a senior this year at Mililani high
school and he is just the most solid golden investigator you'll ever find!
Seriously, he does more scripture reading and praying than I did probably my
whole senior year!!! He's just so awesome! But anyway, Elder Griffin and I were
talking about how we should bring up with him the idea of going on a mission
after he is baptized and such and we were kind of worried about it maybe
setting him off a bit to the whole idea but then, without us asking or
prompting anything out of him, he tells us "I was just praying the other
night and asking God …what he wants me to do and I would do it and I thought
about you guys and this little voice in my mind told me I needed to do what you
guys are doing and go on a mission!" (I am paraphrasing a bit). But
seriously he was just that up front and serious about it!! We never said
anything to him or pushed him into it or anything but he just has such a
sincere desire to follow the Savior and such a humble heart to do his will that
the spirit was able to speak very clearly to him words that we could have never
conveyed as well on our own. Truly the spirit is the teacher and we are just
babbling 19-year-olds wandering to and fro trying and failing over and over
again to do the Lords work when, as C showed perfect, the Lord is able to do
his own work!! I love the Lord and I love this gospel! This is just one of the
many miracles we see every week out here and I know and promise that you can
all see miracles as well in your own life as you continue to trust in the Lord
and follow his guidance and council and especially as you share the Gospel with
others! :)
Well I figure I have rambled on for
long enough and gone on one too many tangents so I guess I will leave it there.
Thank you again for all that you do! I love you all and I am praying for each
of you every day!! Please let me know if there is anything more that I can do
for you each week!! I am more than happy to! :) haha! Have a great week! keep
being awesome! :D
Aloha nui loa!!
-Elder Powell
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