9/7/15
ALOOOOHHHAAA!!!!!
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| Blessing day for Luke's newest niece - Mabel Helen Powell |
Oh how I love being able to start out
every letter home with both a greeting of welcome and love. It is just so
fitting as each week I sign on to find the e-mails of my family and friends
whom I both miss and love and get to take the time to respond to them at least
briefly! :)
With that being said, I would like to
extend a VERY special ALOHA to the newest member of our family, little Benjamin
Ross Powell. Aloha au ia oe little Benji e komo mai to the Powell Ohana!! :)
What an absolute blessing and miracle it is to see the breath of life enter
into all the different creations of God but especially in welcoming in a new
family member!! :) It makes me feel especially blessed to be in an area here in
Hawaii where everyone is related and knows each other and talks and helps each
other out and all of those great things and to know also that my own family is
growing not just out here but back home as well! :)
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| Luke's newest Nephew - Benjamin Ross Powell |
Anyway, that being said I guess I will
just jump right into a quick recap of our week this week! As far as I can
remember at least off the top of my head there is really not too much to update
on from this last week. We didn't really have any special events or anything
too crazy happen, however there were definitely a lot of little miracles we saw
throughout the week so I guess I'll just focus on a few of those!
So we started this week with exchanges
with the other Elders in our district and because they a little less than half
an hour away and we had all kinds of other traveling around the island that day
we didn't really get back until late at night and then by the time we had
finished planning it was much later than we normally would stay up (don't worry
it was all for approved reasons :P haha!) but anyway, I started out the next
day, very sun burnt, and very exhausted from a combination of a rather arduous
hike the previous morning, the hours of traveling around the island, and the
lack of sleep that night. Basically I was not looking forward to getting up
that day. Anyway, I know with that back drop you're all expecting some awesome
story of a miracle baptism or something that came through our efforts in spite
of our weakness, but in the end it was just another normal day of missionary
work filled with cancelled appointments, eternal investigators/less-active
members and a lot of knocking empty doors. But just the fact that we were able
to get through the day and to see the few people we did and build that
relationship with each other and that character of work and such well, I
suppose in a way that is a miracle in and of itself! :)
Other little miracles included being
able to talk with even more people than average and have what the mission calls
QGC's (quality gospel conversations) which for this area was a huge success and
miracle seeing and the towns are so small and the community so close knit. And
also just finding answers to countless prayers that in the end if nothing else
have helped me grow and learn and progress so that hopefully I can help others
in their progression in the gospel in future times. Anyway, we also had one of
our now progressing investigators come to church this last Sunday!! And he
really enjoyed it!! AND while he didn't stay for more than just the first block
of church that was almost a miracle in and of itself because he told us he needed
to go so he could visit his auntie over in Waimea that we met tracting and that
he was going to try and get her to come out to church with him and the Book of
Mormon study class we have each week!!! It really is awesome to see Lehi's
truly prophetic dream in action as people begin to grab a hold of the rod of
iron and taste the fruit of the tree and immediately and instinctively desire
to bless others with the same blessing, especially their family! :) That is
kind of how most of this area has gone and it is awesome!! :) haha!
Anyway, well it's not much but I hope
you enjoyed my little thoughts on this little week here in our little town of
Kekaha which I'm sure has had a much greater and eternal impact than I now
realize. So it is with many things in life. And on that thought, I am again
eternally grateful for all of your seemingly little prayers and messages and
such on my behalf and I can promise you that they do have a great and even
eternal impact on me and my companion here! I love you all and will talk to you
again soon!! Mahalo nui loa and ALOOOOHHHAAA!!!! :)
-Elder Powell
p.s. sorry I don't have any really
exciting pictures to send you but I guess I can send the one new picture I took
this whole last week. I will try and take more in the coming weeks, sorry! :P
haha!
.....I guess you could say we hit a
pretty big "mile-marker" this last week! ;) haha
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