The reason why I am writing on a Wednesday instead of a Monday is because once every 6 weeks one of our P-Days is on
a Wednesday so we can go to the
temple. So today was my first day
going to a temple outside of the United States. It was a good experience and I
have some pictures attached. The pictures are of me at the temple and one of
the is me standing at the bridge with the City of Brisbane behind me. We spent
some time looking around the city too. It is about a 1.5 hour train ride to the
city to go to the temple from Ipswich. It was fun. This week was a miracle
week. We have tracted into lots of people interested in the gospel and we have
scheduled 7 people to be baptized in August. One of our investigators that we found tracting is
named Sandy. She is a single mother and has 8 kids, and 5 of her kids are over
9 years old. She was a miracle. We tracted 3 houses the day that we found her
and after teaching her twice she shared an experience with us which is really
cool. She said the day before we knocked on her door she was praying and
wondering what she needed to do with her life. She said we were an answer to
her prayers when we knocked on her door with smiling faces and excited to share
the gospel with her. She said the gospel is just what she needs in her life
right now. So we were sharing the Plan of Salvation with her and when we got to
the Celestial Kingdom part we said the only way to live with her family,
Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ in the Celestial Kingdom was to be baptized.
After saying that she said "I want to be baptized and I want all my kids to be
baptized too. It was a really good experience and the spirit was really strong
in our lesson. The coolest part of being a missionary is sharing the simple
messages of the gospel and seeing how it touches the lives of people. So we are
going to continue teaching her and her family until the end of August when they are going to get
baptized. Its really excited to have an investigator commit to baptism and see
the gospel touch their life. The 1 other baptism we scheduled was also somebody
we tracted into. We knocked on their door and the lady who answered the door
said that her and her husband we both baptized when they were 8 years old but
don't remember the last time they went to church. So they have a 10 year old son
named Blake, and he wants to get baptized, so we are going to baptize him in
August also. His parents are also
going to start coming back to church. Which is good. Those are the really good
experiences I had this week. We also did lots of tracting as always, and we are
going to be teaching a lot of people within the next week. So I am pretty
excited. The missionary work is going well. I am used to the Australian
culture by now. I can now talk a little bit in the Samoan language. The
members here are really great and I get along with all of them really well. All
is well with me and I am having lots of good experiences here in Australia and I
hope everyone is doing well back at home.
Love,Elder Kyler Powelson
