Hello All,
The reason I am emailing so late in the week is because
our P-day got switched to
Wednesday so we could attend a temple session. And since
the temple is only open
Wed-
Sat, they moved our P-day. We took the train to the city to go to the temple and then after we were done we
take the train back to our areas to continue our P-day activities. The temple
today was marvelous! It has been over 6
months since I have gone since I was 1100 kms away in my last area. It was
great to go again and feel the special spirit of the temple. I loved it so
much.
This
Saturday our investigator Valerie Powell is getting baptized which is
really exciting. She is 75 years old and is progressing really well. You would
think that it would be hard for her to learn everything since she is so old, but
she is actually learning and remembering things a lot faster than most of the
other people I have taught on my mission. Her testimony is really strong and
she loves everything about the church and she said that it is one of the best
decisions of her life. Her husband passed away a few years back, so we decided
to talk about the temple and how she can be sealed for time and all eternity
with her husband, and now she can't wait to go to the temple in a year! It is
going to be really exciting. The baptism is going to be great. I am super
excited especially since it has been 6 months since I've baptized someone, so I
am really looking forward to it!!!
Another investigator we have is
named Chrissy. We weren't able to teach her this week though because she is busy
with University study all week. We are hoping to meet with her soon and help
her to start to progress for her baptismal date in
July. Her and her partner are really cool people, we are
hoping that they will work together to progress towards baptism and make the
choice to be married in order to be baptized. I am really looking forward to
see how things go with them!
We went out tracting a street this
week and it felt like it was the street we needed to tract. We were tracting
this street for about 2 hours total and every door was getting slammed in our
face. Australians sometimes are rude when people come knocking on their door.
After this was happening we saw this guy cleaning out his car at the end of the
street. So we went and talked to him. He asked us for a pamphlet and asked us
if we could come back and teach him. That pretty much never happens. But it
did! We went and taught him and we shared with him The Plan of Salvation, and
after we were done he said that he believed everything we said and then he set
the return appointment. We are going back to see him
this Friday and we hope things go really well. He has a few
problems with Word of Wisdom things, but we will work on that another time. We
just want to build up his testimony, and when we bring up the word of wisdom he
will hopefully have no problems giving those things up because of his
testimony.
We have been working hard and I love working with Elder
O'Connor. He is definitely my favorite companion so far. Time has been going so
fast! We are already half way through the transfer. Things are going well with
me, I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great
week!!!
Love
Elder Kyler Powelson