This week flew by. I leave for Australia in exactly a week!! I am way
excited! I got my travel plans on Thursday and the flight is going to be super long. It
starts with a flight from Salt Lake City to LA. In LA we have a 6 hour
layover. Then we get onto a flight to Melbourne Australia which will take 14
hours and then after that we will get on a flight to Brisbane which will take
only an hour. My MTC experience is going great. Everyday is basically the
same. Our days are all planned out for us and we have stuff planned for 16
hours of our day. The MTC is great but I am definitely ready to get to the
mission field. The mission president seminar where they train all the mission
presidents is this week, so there have been apostles in the MTC. I have not
seen any of them yet. The security is super high when they are here. On Tuesday there is a special devotional
where President Monson, President Uctdorf, and Elder Bednar are going to be
speaking, so I am really excited for that to happen! It is always excited to go
to the temple as a missionary. We go every morning before our P-day and it is
always such a good experience. I have been in the MTC for less than 2 weeks but
I have learned so much about the gospel. It is crazy how much you can learn in
such a little time. I really like the teachers I have and they have taught me
so much. There really is not much to say about this week. I go to lots of
classes and devotionals. The spirit is so strong here I love it. It is so cool
to talk to all the missionaries here because all the people in this place go all
over the world. In my district there are 8 of us. There are 3 of us going to
Australia and the other 5 are going to Tampa Florida. There are also 2
districts in our zone who are going to Hong Kong and they like to practice their
Chinese on us. In sacrament meetings they give their talks and prayers in
Chinese and it is cool how you can feel the spirit even though the rest of us
have no idea what they are saying. Some of the best spiritual experiences I
have had are when I am studying and teaching lessons. When I got set apart as a
full time missionary I started to feel a lot different. The difference was the
spirit giving me more power. They tell us that missionaries are entitled to
receive revelation on an hourly basis about they people they teach and the
things we need to learn about. I have experience this. It is crazy how much
revelation I have received about the investigators that i teach. Even as I have
read through my scriptures the spirit has told me lots of things I have needed
to know. It has been an amazing experience in my life!! I am really looking
forward to teaching real investigators and receiving revelation for them and
changing real peoples lives. All the people you teach at the MTC are volunteers
to help us out, but I am way excited to teach real people and touch real peoples
lives. I have a testimony that this church is the true Church and that I am
called of god to serve a mission. I encourage all that are thinking about
serving a mission to definitely do so. I have not even been on my mission for 2
weeks and I have already learned so much and had some of the coolest
experiences, and I am excited to get even more amazing experiences in the next 2
years. So the people that read this, If you thinking about not going on a
mission, go on one. I testify that it will be one of the best experiences of
you life and you will be blessed. I love and miss you all, and I hope all is
well with you.
Love,
Elder Kyler Powelson
PS. Missionaries love letters, so while I am still in the MTC it is free
through dear elder.com. and It isn't too expensive to send me a real
letter when I get to the mission field. I want to hear from everyone while I am
on my mission.
