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| Since we didn't have any new fun photos of Luke to share this week, here is a photo of Luke's Grandpa Powell when he was a young man. Apparently Luke's propensity to hang out in trees is genetic. |
Aloha ohana!!!
Glad to hear everything
is nice and normal (well relatively) back home! :) honestly "normal"
is something that I've never been very familiar with although I do wonder
sometimes what it would be like! :P haha Anyway, as for our week it was
actually a pretty good week. Still a little slow when it comes to teaching
lessons and everything…but it was interesting how over and over throughout the
week almost all of our messages and studies even seemed to be about the
Enabling Power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ!! Truly incredible stuff!!! (I
think my favorite talk I read on that was called "In the Strength of the
Lord by Elder David A. Bednar at a BYU devotional a couple years back.) Anyway,
that has really been helping me a ton (obviously, that's kinda what it's there
to do. haha) and it's almost become a theme for us as a companionship hopefully
at least for the rest of the transfer!
Other than that though
highlights of the week first and foremost included some great lessons ranging
from less-actives who have sincerely tried but struggled with overcoming past
grudges and mistakes of others for multiple years now to strengthening a young
single father of two who has had his own battles with addictions in the past
that even lost him his children for a while but he is now doing INCREDIBLY well
and getting his life not only more situated physically and financially but also
spiritually so as to be able to provide even more so for his kids in all of
those aspects!
Of course we also had a
big celebration this past week on the 16th for reaching our official one year
mark on the mission!! It's crazy to think that exactly 1 year ago last Thursday
Elder Baker and I entered the MTC fresh and not too sure what lay ahead and now
here we are again together with some faded suits, worn out shoes and a whole
lot more experiences under our belts with many more to come as well! it's been
super fun being with someone I came out with! Just as it was with Elder
Rentmeister and Elder Griffin before! Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it
happened again in the future... I'm starting to realize we had a pretty huge
group that came out our time with about 18 Elders and 4 Sisters compared to the
1 or 2 new Elders and 3 or 4 Sisters we have been getting the last quite a few
transfers :P but anyway, it's been a good year! :)
That being said I know
there is a lot more I want to say and a lot more I probably should say,
especially some kind of motivational spiritual awesome statement that you could
then print off and hang on the wall or quote in your next talk/testimony at
church but... well... I don't have anything right now and I don't really have
the time to think of any either.. so it suffices me to say that, the Atonement
is very real and very powerful and when both its cleansing and enabling effects
are put to use even less than ordinary men and woman to do extraordinary things
no matter how impossible the odds may seem. (there that was kinda of
insightful! haha) Anyway, I love you all, I miss you like crazy and pray for
you every day but I know I'll see you soon enough! In fact I should see you
approximately this exact time next year! so yeah, hopefully the weather that
year is a little cooler and a little more humid than it seems now, otherwise I
might just shrivel up when I step off the plane! haha
Well have a fantastic
week! Aloha au ia oe!
-Elder Powell
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