Hello All,
This last week has been a really great week. I have a companion
who really wants to work and we have been working our butts off trying to find
people to teach. With Elder Sio, this is the hardest I have worked my whole
mission. Elder Sio is my new companion. He is 28 years old and is Samoan, he
was born and raised in Sydney. But he is a work horse and we have been working
super hard. We taught 12 lessons compared to the usual 5 i had with Elder Kay
and we got 4 new investigators this week when we were lucky to get one. It
definitely makes a difference having a companion that wants to work just as hard
as I do. We are still on the bikes until after the new year and I have started
to lose quite a bit of weight. I am hoping to get back down to the weight I
left home. Anyways. The work is going great
We got a new investigator
we started to teach and his name is Donny. He is a Philipino man and he said he
needs to start doing something new in his life and he thinks the gospel might be
that thing. We taught him 2 lessons during this week but he was not able to
come to church, so hopefully he will be able to come next week.
We also
started to teach a 7th Day Adventist family. They are confused people. But we
made the agreement with them that if we come to their worship services on Saturday, then they will come to ours on Sunday. Basically what 7th Day Adventist believe is
that in the Old Testament God made the Sabbath day the 7th Day. But when Jesus
Christ was resurrected on the first day, he said to worship him and have the
sabbath on the first day. So basically what they believe is that Jesus Christ
cant change the day that we worship him. Jesus said to worship him on the First
day, but they 7th Day Adventists say that they don't believe that Jesus Christ
could change the Sabbath Day. They are really knowledgeable about the Bible.
We are teaching them about the Book of Mormon and we are hoping that it might go
somewhere.
We also found some Lost Less Active people. Since there are
600 people on our branch list where only 150 people are active we decided to
start visiting some of these people and we are now working with a couple of
them to see if we can get them to come back to church. I am excited for one of
the families we started to work with because it is a part member and the kids
are thinking about being baptized. So we aren't going to be meeting with them
again until the new year, but I am quite excited to see where it goes.
I am excited to talk to my parents on Christmas tomorrow! I miss you all and I hope you have a great
week!
Love,
Elder Kyler Powelson