4/11/16
Mok tata, Yokwe aolep!!!!!!
What a WONDERFUL report
this week from everyone!! Thank you all SO SO much for your love and for your
prayers and for your e-mails and everything on my behalf! You are seriously
just the greatest people ever! :) I love you more than words can describe! It's
funny how having been away for so long seems to only have increased the love I
have for all of you and the desire to share so many of the miracles that we
have been seeing each and every day in this great and marvelous latter-day
work! :) Although I would LOVE to tell you about EVERYTHING that happened this
week (and believe me there was a LOT to report on this past week) we actually
have to run really soon to go play tennis with this very sweet lady who lives
across the hall from us at our apartment! She is a non-member but out of the
kindness of her heart is constantly dropping off little loafs of banana nut
bread or kim-chi soup and just asked if we could go play tennis when she saw us
coming in from playing it last p-day. Anyway, so really REALLY fast update on
this past week!
We had JR's confirmation
this last week and it went GREAT! He is such an awesome guy and it also excited
to be the newest member of the Priest's quorum here (although he still attends
the Elder's Quorum class which is more fitting because of his age!) Anyway, he
is doing wonderful and we are excited to help him continue on his path towards
the temple and his family getting sealed one-year from now! :)
We also had an exciting
but VERY exhausting day on Friday as our mission president and the assistants
put together what they called "fasting finding Friday" where we had a
special mission wide fast, specifically to find new investigators and people to
teach, and then we went out and just tracted all day, (from 10am-9pm, not
including dinner and other pre-scheduled appointments). Anyway, Elder Teerlink
and I actually didn't do too much tracting ourselves since we don't really have
a geographical "area" that we could go and tract houses in. So we
just took all of these SUPER old teaching records from the past quite a few
years that had just been collecting dust on our selves, as well as some of our
potential investigator lists, and just hit the pavement! It was amazing! We
talked to everyone possible on the street and in different places we went to
and found a ton of new potential investigators for ourselves and to refer to
other people, and we also found a total of SEVEN NEW INVESTIGATORS in ONE DAY!
It was fantastic! We are both super excited to keep working with all of these
new people that we found too! :)
Anyway, speaking of new
investigators. You are probably wondering who keeps sending those random
pictures! So a week or so ago I think you got a random picture of me and my
companion filling up our car at a 7/11 in Ewa beach. Jump ahead a few weeks and
we're in our house doing our companionship study, when suddenly we get a call
from a random number. It was a member who lives in La'ie but who works down in
Ewa beach, and she has a co-worker who is Marshallese and who had been asking a
lot of questions about the church and wanted to learn more about what we
believed and everything. So the member ended up getting our number somehow and
set up an appointment for her friend for yesterday and we over to go teach her,
and who would have thought, but it was the same member that randomly took our
picture and sent it to you guys at the 7/11 a week or so ago! haha! Anyway, so
long story short, the member and her friend (who just got back from her mission
in the Marshall Islands) came and we met this Marshallese lady and her daughter
at a place called Don Quiote's and we had the whole first lesson, and it went
GREAT! They might not know it yet, but they are seriously SO amazing and just
the golden investigators that everybody prays for and that this branch could
REALLY use! They took the commitment to read and pray about the pamphlet and
other stuff that we left with them and we got a return appointment set up for
this next Saturday so we are SUPER excited about all of that! :) Anyway, I will
be sure to keep you up to date! I really wish I could go more in depth on
everything but we just don't have the time to! :P
So, basically I could sum
up the entire rest of this past week in one sentence. WE ARE SO BUSY!!! I know
I've probably said that a dozen times in this one e-mail alone but, man, that
word just describes our lives so perfectly right now! It is wonderful!! There
is nothing better than to be anxiously engaged in the work of the Lord and I
have come to learn that he MORE than meets our efforts and gives us the
strength to do things that we otherwise would NEVER be able to do! We are even
starting to fall behind on sleep and hardly have time even think about eating anymore
because we are just running all over the island trying to cram in lessons and
appointments and service and giving blessings and all of that stuff and there
is just not enough time in the week to do it all! But still, it is just
wonderful! :) We have actually been kind of petitioning to get a second set of
missionaries here in the branch to help us cover all of the work that we have
been trying to do by ourselves. In fact there is so much happening here now
that I highly doubt we could get to all of it even with two sets of
missionaries here! haha! It is wonderful! :)
Anyway, well hey, we
gotta run, but I hope that you all have a FANTASTIC week! Again, know that I
love you and will be praying for you constantly! Stay strong, carry on, and as
always, don't forget to be awesome!! :)
Bar yokwe eok!
-Elder Powell
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