3/14/16
Motta im baamle yokwe!! :)
I was very saddened to
hear about the passing of Sis. Knaparek. She truly was an
incredible woman and I have MANY fond memories of both being in her class as
well as taking her the sacrament when she was unable to come to church and even
a lot of good memories of her son Tony who was such a good home teacher for so
many years! They are a wonderful family and I am sure that they will continue
to do amazing things whatever side of the veil they may be on!! Still my heart
felt prayers and thoughts are definitely with them this week as they
always will be.
Man, that's super cool to
hear about All-state Joe!! Way to be involved in so many worthwhile efforts!
Again I would reference that talk by Gordon B. Hinkley when he quoted the story
about how you can tell what a person is really like by what they do with
their leisure time, whether they are "an eagle soaring to
lofting highs" and "flying upwards towards Heaven" or whether
they are "pigs, wallowing in
the filthiest of mud-holes the pasture has to offer."
Also when you do get in
touch with those Hawaiian bothers be sure to ask them a lot about Hawaii! If
there is one thing Hawaiians LOVE to talk about it is Hawaii!!! haha!
seriously, the pull of the islands ESPECIALLY for a local born is VERY strong
and just like they always say "you can take a boy from the islands, but
you can't take the island from the boy!" :)
I will just kind of wrap
up by saying that we are also doing a lot of WONDERFUL things out here as well!
:) I wish I had more to tell you about but really this week hasn't been too
eventful our out of the ordinary, that's why I thought I would focus my e-mail
this week more so on all of you because plain old me is just doing plain old Marshallese
things out here in plain old Hawaii! haha (although I fully realize that there
is nothing "plain" or average in any way for that matter about
myself, the Marshallese people or Hawaii.) Still it has been fun to serve this
past week!
We did have one big
thing happen this last week when one of the investigators we were teaching
agreed to get married to his girl-friend that he is living with and has a child
with so that he can get baptized on the 26th of this month! :) It definitely
helps that the girl he is now technically engaged to is part of a super active
and strong member family almost all of which are seminary graduates and the dad
is even our branch high priest group leader..... To be fair though he is quite
literally the ONLY ordained high priest in the entire branch as well! :P
hahaha! But still it is exciting to see the progress our investigator has made!
It is also nice to finally teach and hopefully baptize someone over the age of
12 for once over here! :P hahaha!
Well we better get going!
I love you all SO much and again I am ETERNALLY grateful for you and for the
great people that you are! Have a fantastic week and keep on be awesome as
always! You will still be in my thoughts and prayers! Kommol im bar lo eok!!
-Elder Powell
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