10/19/15
Aloha my dear family!!! :)
One thing I have come to
learn out here pretty fast, especially in an area like Kekaha, there is not
much and what there is there is not much off, so you have to really just learn
to make use of what is there. So yeah. Anyway, with that rather seemingly pointless
introduction! This week has been great in a lot of ways and tough in others! We
are still trying to find new people to teach which, well... hasn't worked out
the best, BUT Elder Stulce (one of the missionaries from the Kalaheo ward, the
one next to us) and I were on exchanges and just walking around Waimea trying
to talk to people and we ended up finding a whole family of members who about a
year ago moved over to Hawaii and are super nice and just way cool people and
really like the missionaries... but they haven't been active for what sounded
like MANY years, so we just didn't have any of their records or anything. So
yeah! That was a miracle without a doubt!!!!
Another awesome miracle
from this last week was going to our Thursday night Book of Mormon class and
meeting a lady who a lot of our members work with and they invited out to class
with them! That is actually a cool story! So there's this place in Waimea
called Ishihara Market (really cool place with some pretty great poke) and we
have these three VERY strong and missionary minded members who all work there
and it's great too because two of them are VERY recent converts (like less than
a year) and the other just barely started to get active again in church (also
less than a year) so they are totally in a mission mindset (talk about Lehi's
dream coming true!) and because all three are now SUPER strong and have been
doing an incredible job at setting an example for their co-workers we've
actually gotten a couple new/potential investigators including this new Lady
who came into class this last week. She just lost her husband and so while she
is already religious she was still open enough to accept the invitation to come
out and I think it went well, I hope she wasn't too overwhelmed but I guess I'll
let you know in the coming week. Anyway, so long story short with all of that
and a couple other stories, there are a few new possibilities popping up all
over the place for new investigators/less-actives for us to teach which is WAY
exciting!! :)
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| the "spouting hole" in Poipu |
Other than that, a
"new" highlight of the week was helping a few VERY flustered and
scared older ladies on vacation from Canada whose service on their only phone
went out just one day into their trip! So I was literally in the middle of
e-mailing you when they came in making a little more of a ruckus than I think
the librarians appreciated :) haha, and asked them for help but they weren't
sure what to do so I just motioned for them to come and let them use my
computer to talk with their service people, turns out that all they had to do
was turn their phone off and back on (amazing how often that works... haha!)
and while it was really a small deal and nothing big came of it, it was cool to
at least be able to leave a good impression of missionaries on them while they
were over here in Hawaii and hopefully when they run into them back in Canada
they will be more willing to talk with them there like I suggested they do. :)
So yeah, RJ, if you find and start teaching two ladies over there who just
recently went on vacation to Hawaii... you're welcome! ;) hahaha!
Anyway, sorry this week
is really just a big "stream of consciousness" kind of letter. There
has been a ton of little things like blown out tires and dropped/new
investigators and crazy lessons and long exchanges and some very late nights so
I'm just about completely burnt out for the week... but hey, that's what
mission life is I guess. Anyway, if I missed anything or if you have any other
questions I will be sure to try to answer them next week! Thank you! Hope you
all have a wonderful week! I love you so much and of course will keep on
praying for you! Stay strong and carry on! Even among the "floods"
that life so often throws at us! And hey if you need someone else to come and
help out with any future flooding problems, well, I "Noah" guy who's
an expert with that kind of stuff! :) haha! Have a great week! Don't forget to
be awesome!!
Aloha nui loa!!!
-Elder Powell
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