Time flies by really fast. I come home in exactly 6 months
from today. I can’t believe how fast these
18 months have been. We went to the temple today
and it was great! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas with the extreme
heat and humidity. I won’t be seeing much snow this year. It is very
interesting having Christmas and it being this hot. It is sad that Australians don’t
really know what a real Christmas looks like.
Anyway, this week was pretty good! We started teaching Christopher with his wife as well now. They are reading the Book of Mormon together and things are going well we are hoping to commit them to baptism this week before the Christmas season.
Most of our work lately has been working with the fewer inactives
in the ward. Nephi is progressing really well. He has started reading the
scriptures and praying on a regular basis and he is seeing the difference it
makes in his life. He said, "It keeps me G'ed up with the spirit I feel on
Sunday" So it makes him feel good and
feel the spirit. He really wants his wife to believe, but right now she is an
atheist, but we taught that if he continues to life righteously, she will see
the difference the gospel makes in his life, and will want to make that change
as well. It may take time, but it will
happen. He is really good. Helping him come back to the church makes me feel
just as good as baptizing someone because he is making a lot of the same
changes a convert would in order to come into the church. It has definitely
been a testimony builder! Anyway, this week was pretty good! We started teaching Christopher with his wife as well now. They are reading the Book of Mormon together and things are going well we are hoping to commit them to baptism this week before the Christmas season.
The mission is having a mission Christmas party on Christmas Eve, and I am looking forward to it because I will get to see many missionaries I haven’t seen in a while. There will be about 240 missionaries there. About 20 missionaries will miss out since they are in Northern Queensland like I was last year, so this will be my first and last Christmas party as a missionary.
I can’t wait to talk to my family on Christmas. I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!
Love
Elder Kyler Powelson