This week has been pretty good. We have a baptism this Sunday which is really excited and
then we have 7 more next week. I am really excited for them to happen. The one
on Sunday is a 9 year old boy who
is part of a part-member family who was never baptized. Then next week Sandy
and all of her kids are getting baptized. It is really cool to see how much
they have changed in the month that we have met with them. It is really cool
having a miracle convert this early in my mission. If we were lazy missionaries
and didn't tract, then we would have never found her and it would not have been
as good of an experience. So hard work does pay off on the mission. Anyone who
gets mission calls or has exciting news make sure to tell my mom so she can
email it to me. We taught quite a bit of lessons this week. We have been doing
lots of work to prepare everything for the baptisms we are having soon. The
work is going well and Raceview is growing to become one of the better area in
the mission. We had no one to teach when we got here, and now there are heaps
of people to teach. We hope to keep finding more people and teaching more
people so the work can keep getting better and better here. I am excited and I
am having some of the most spiritual experience I have ever had in my life so
far. We have a few potential investigators that are really interested, so we
will see what happens this week. We have already had 2 lessons this week and we
have 10 more planned for the rest of the week. That is really high for this
mission, so we are definitely keeping busy. That is as far as the work
goes.
Now for some good experiences that I have had. Last week I went to a
Samoan birthday party. Since we were missionaries we were automatically guests
of honor. So we sat at the big
table and got served our food. The people kept coming and putting food on my
plate. I don't have to worry about going hungry in this area. The members
always make sure we have food. There was lots of people singing and dancing.
It was all in the Samoan Language so I could not understand a thing, but the
food was really good. Samoan food is really good.
So 5 years ago they took away all of the Samoan speaking wards and some
people didn't like that because it is hard for them to understand English, so
they decided to make a break off church of the LDS church. We call them the
break-offs. Well we went and visited them and they started to realized that the
spirit isn't in their meetings and that they didn't have the authority from god to
do all the things they do, so some of them decided to come back to church even
though it is in English. So that was a miracle for us to have people come back.
Well, that is about it for my week and I hope everyone else is doing well.
I miss you all and I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Kyler Powelson