May 12, 2014

Hello All,

 

We had one great miracle this week.  About 2-3 months ago we tracted into a part member family.  Kara is a member, but her husband Vae is not a member.  Initially Vae was the one who said that they needed to come back to church.  So we tried hard to meet with them regularly and it has been a struggle, but this last week we were able to teach a powerful lesson about the Book of Mormon, and Vae told us that he would be baptized if he gained a testimony of the Book of Mormon.  We committed him to read and pray about it.  We have a lesson with him this week and we are going to commit him for a date, because he will for sure receive an answer.  I am really hoping for this miracle at the end of my mission.  I want to come home on a high note, so I am putting a lot of faith so Vae can get baptized before I come home. 

 

 This week Elder Hamula from the First Quorum of the 70 is on a mission tour, so we get to receive training from him on Thursday, which we are really excited about! 

 

I have attached a few photos,  2 of them are from Tori and Troy Jackson's Baptism, and one of them is of Elder Grayson (The missionary I trained), and Elder San(The missionary Elder Grayson is now training).  For those who have served missions you know the lingo they use.  When you train you have a son, so now I have 1 son and a grandson according to that lingo.  It was exciting to see that a missionary I trained in training early on in his mission.  I only trained once, so it is pretty cool.  Being a zone leader is busy, but really good as well. 

 

I only have 5 weeks left, so I will be seeing some of you pretty soon here.  Have a great week!

 

Love 

Elder Kyler Powelson

Elder Grayson  Troy Jackson  Tori Jackson  Elder Powelson

                                     Jackson Family

Elder Niania   Elder Grayson   Elder Powelson

 

 

 

May 5, 2014

Hello All,

 

I do not have too much time to email today, but transfers were today and I got the last companion of my mission!  His name is Elder Niania and he is from Sydney.  He is great and I am really looking forward to these last 6 weeks.  It is going to come really fast.  Tori and Tory Jackson got baptized which was a great miracle and I will send pictures of that next week!  I miss you all and I hope you have a great week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

April 27, 2014

Hello All,

 

This week was once again an average but great week!  We saw many miracles.  We have been working with Troy and Tori Jackson for the last couple of months and they are getting baptizedthis Saturday.  It is pretty solid, and I am really looking forward to it!  We were able to recommit Suzanne to quit smoking and be baptized on the 24th of May.  She has done good so far, so we are praying for a miracle to happen with her.  We knocked on doors a lot this week as well.  I love being a missionary.  It is crazy to think how close the end is coming, but I am definitely going to miss this great and marvelous work.  Missionary work is one of the greatest works on the earth today.  The prophet has called us to hasten the work of salvation.  I know that as members and missionaries come together this time will be the time of greatest growth in the church.  Now is an exciting time to be a missionary.  I have witnessed the Lord Hastening his work here and I am sure he is softening the hearts of people and preparing them to be found by all members and missionaries.  Members are the finders and Missionaries are the teachers.  If we try our best to go out of our way to share the gospel with our friends and as we pray for missionary experiences, they will come, and even though some of you may not be missionaries, you can experience many miracles doing member missionary work.  I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a spectacular week! 

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

April 22, 21014

Hello All,

 

This week was a great week!  We had 2 mini missionaries with us for the whole week and we were able to find a lot of people who can potentially become new investigators.  They were from the Sunshine Coast, which is about a 2ish hour drive from the Gold Coast where I am serving now.  The Waka children should get baptized this week if their parents don't find another excuse to postpone the baptism again.  The week wasn't super eventful, but the mini missionaries had great experiences meeting the many interesting Australian people who you don't really come across in everyday life.  We did find one new investigator this week though.  He name is Dave and he moved in with one of the less active members in the ward.  He is pretty interesting.  Him and the less active met in the mental hospital, but he seems pretty normal and as we shared a lesson with him he started to cry as he said the prayer at the end of the lesson.  It should be good as we teach him some more.  They are planning on getting married sometime later this year. 

 

It was a pretty average week this week and we hope there are many miracles to come this next week!  I hope you all have a great week this week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

April 14, 2014

Hello All,

Our week was really good.  We got some mini missionaries with us for most of this week which will be really good for our area.  We are really trying hard to find some new investigators this week, so we should be successful with that goal.  The Jacksons had to postpone the baptism for 2 weeks.  They are going to be getting baptized the same day as the Waka Children, which will be really good.  I am doing great, and we are hoping for many miracles this next week!  Have a great week!

Love
Elder Powelson

April 9, 2014

Hello All,

 

This week was pretty good.  I was sick for a couple of days which wasn't so delightful.  We were still able to teach many of our investigators though.  The Jackson Children are getting baptized on Saturday.  We got to go to the temple today which was really great!  We have spent a lot of time on tradeoffs as well, so I have been working in some of the other areas in the zone.  Not too much happened this week, but that is OK!  I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

March 31, 2014

Hello All,

 

This week was pretty good.  Not super eventful though.  The Waka's had to postpone their baptism because they want the Dad to baptize the kids and since he is less active they need to wait for him to come to church for a couple of weeks.  But The sister missionaries in the Ward had an investigator get baptized and he asked me to be the one to baptize him.  It was pretty cool to do that.  His name is Sergio and he is from Paraguay.  It was good.  The 2 Jackson kids, Troy and Tori are back on date for the 12th, which is excited since their Dad is coming back from Perth to see the baptism.  We had a Leadership Council with the mission president on Friday which I learned a lot from, and found out that our zone, the Coomera Zone is the top zone in the mission right now, so that was great to hear.  Since I have come to the zone it had grown a lot and we are seeing a lot of success from the effort we have made to help all the other missionaries in the zone become more committed and converted, and that is what has helped the work grow.  We didn't have much time to work this week because of all the meetings we went to.  In just 3 days we drove a total of 600 Kilometers driving around and doing things for missionaries and going into the city.  That was about it for our week.  We are looking forward to a great week this week and a great month in April.  I hope you all have a great week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

March 25, 2014

Hello All,

 

This week was really good!  It was transfer week and Elder Nelson and I are staying together again.  It will be our 3rd transfer period together, so it should be good.  We have been together for 3 months and at the end of this 6 weeks it will be 4.5 months.  A few things have changed in our zone, but have mostly stayed the same.  The assistants told us that our zone is the most successful zone at the moment, so we are really looking forward to this next transfer.  There is only one more transfer period before I come home.  Its coming pretty fast and I am sure it will be here before I know it. 

 

The Waka kids are getting baptized this Saturday, which we are really excited about.  and Suzanne might get baptized..  She will be baptized if she is able to give up smoking this week.  She has done good so far, so we are going to hope for the best.  Also on Saturday the sisters investigator has asked me to baptize him, so Saturday will be an action packed day. 

 

We tracted heaps this week.  We are hoping for a lot more miracles this week though.  I miss you all and I hope you all have a wonderful week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

March 17, 2014

Hello All,

 

This week was a great week! We were able to set a baptismal date with our investigator Cate for the 12th of April. Finding her was a great miracle! We tracted into her and when we knocked on her door, her dog named Frank came down and started playing with us. She told us that her dog never does that, she said that her dog is usually very protective and not friendly at all. She said we could come back again because Frank liked us. This was a perfect example of how people are looking for the gospel and they don't even know it yet. She didn't think she needed God or any religion in her life, but after she decided to hear our message, she knew that the gospel is what she was looking for. It was a great miracle to witness!  I can't wait to keep on working with her and I can't wait until her baptism!

 

The Waka children had to move their baptism to March 29th because they have family from New Zealand coming over.  I am really looking forward to that baptism as well, and we are still working with Suzanne.  She is trying really hard to quit smoking and it hasn't happened yet, but we cant wait for her to progress.  That is the exciting news for the week.  Being a zone leader is keeping me really busy which I am grateful for.  We are tracting a lot and we are really hoping to find a lot more miracles with the people we are working with.  I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a marvelous week!!!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

March 10, 2014

Hello All,

 

Our week was really good this week!  It was a very typical week in the life of a missionary.   The Waka kids are ready to get baptized on the 22 of March, and Suzanne is going to be getting baptized on March 30th.  We saw many miracles in our week. 

 

We had an interesting experience yesterday.  We got to church and about 10 before church started, the sister missionaries in the ward called us and said that their ride forgot about them.  They live 20 minutes away and church started in 10 minutes, and our only option was to go pick them up.  I think it was one of the first times in my life where I was late to church.  It felt really weird walking in about 30 Minutes late.  Its a good thing not too many people noticed though. 

 

Vae and Kara, a part member family we have been working with came to church which we were really excited about.  We have a lesson with them tonight which we are excited about as well.  Vae pretty much already acts like he is a member, so we don't see many problems with him being able to get baptized. 

 

I also got to work with a couple of the other missionaries in the zone for a couple of days which was really good.  I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

 

March 3, 2014

Hello All,

 

We had a really great week this week!  Kerri got baptized!  It was a long journey for her, but the spirit filled her baptismal service.  It was wonderful to see and to see the difference it made in her.  Some pictures are attached.  We are hoping that her husband Josh, who is not a member yet was touched by the baptismal service because the next goal is going to be to convert him to the gospel, so they can begin their journey to eternal marriage. 

 

We had a great miracles this week!  Last week we tracted into a girl named Cate.  Her dog came down to us and we started patting it and playing with the dog.  She told us that the dog never plays with anyone who comes to the door.  She said that when the Jehovah's witnesses come the dog chases them away.  Since the dog liked us and we were able to play with the dog, she decided to hear us out and we set an appointment for Monday.  When we went to her house that Monday to teach her, the spirit was there and we committed her to read the Book of Mormon.  When we went back on Friday for another lesson, she had read up to 1 Nephi chapter 8.  It was awesome because most people don't really read the Book of Mormon when you first commit them to.  It usually takes a couple of lesson.  She told us that she loved it very much and that she was going to keep on reading it.  We told her that she is truly being converted to the Book of Mormon and the gospel.  We hope to commit her to baptism on the lesson we are going to have on Wednesday.  It is a prime example of someone who didn't even know what they were looking for, but when they felt the spirit, they knew that they needed the gospel in her life.  It was a great experience. 

 

We are hoping that Suzanne will be able to be baptized in a couple of weeks and the Waka children will be baptized on the 22nd.  We are having a lot of success in many ways.  I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

 

I also had a good 21st Birthday.  They sang to me at the cottage evening we had on Sunday night.

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

 

Elder Powelson  Kerri   Elder Nelson

 

Kyler

 

 

 

February 24, 2014

Hello All,

 

It has been a pretty standard half week since I last emailed.  Kerri is getting really excited for her baptism on Saturday and so are we!  It is going to be great!  We are really looking forward to this week and march especially.  We are looking to baptize 4 people in March, so it is going to be a great exciting month for us!  We did a lot of tracting this week, and we found some good potentials.  We have been working with this less active man named Owen.  The rest of his family is active.  We have been going over a couple times a week to share messages with him.  When I first got to the area, he would talk to us, but he didn't really like the gospel topics, but this last week he came to church because his son was being ordained to be a priest, and when we went to the lesson he asked us a really good question, and as we gave him an answer it was great!  He never knew why his family was so happy after they got home from church.  He said that his wife and kids have changed a lot since they have been going to church, and his question was asking is it the action of them going to church that changes them, or is it just themselves.  The answer we gave him was that it was the Holy Ghost.  Since his family was going to church and living worthy to have the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, their attitude changed and since they had that companion, it has helped them make decisions and do the things that are promised to us in John 14:26.  We told him what we tell everyone, because he has never felt the Holy Ghost work in his life, we told him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it, and if he does that then he will receive confirmation through his thoughts and feeling through the Holy Ghost.  He agreed to do so, and my goal is help him on his way so his family can be sealed together. 

 

That was the greatest thing to happen this week with many other great things that are going to happen this week!  I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

February 19, 2014

Hello All,

 

This week was a great week!  A big miracle we saw this week was with our investigator named Kerri.  She was supposed to be baptized back in November, but she backed out the day before she was supposed to be baptized and she cut off her ties with the missionaries.  After I got here Elder Nelson decided to start visiting her again.  When we started the visits baptism for her was out of the picture for now, but as we continues to come and share messages with her and help her feel the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost started to prompt her that she needed to be baptized.  So she is going to be getting baptized on March 1st.  It is really exciting a we are looking forward to it.  All of the baptisms we had for February had to get rescheduled to March for various reasons.  The two Waka children we are teaching are going to get baptized on March 22nd and Suzanne is getting baptized on March 15th.  March is going to be a great month and I am really looking forward to it! 

 

This week we were also able to teach Vae and Kara.  I talked about them a couple weeks ago.  Kara is a member, but Vae isn't.  It was a really powerful lesson.  We taught him the Restoration, and he is reading the Book of Mormon.  He really wants to come to church, so we are hoping that we will be able to help him progress so he can be baptized in April.  It is really exciting.  We tracted a lot this week, and it was wonderful!  I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

February 11, 2014

Hello All,

 

Today was transfer day.  Elder Nelson and I are going to be staying together.  There were some changes in our zone, but we are really looking forward to this next transfer we are going to have together.  The Hastening is happening.  We are breaking records as a zone and in our area.  It is great to witness!  I don't have too much time to write today.  We had to reschedule a couple of our baptisms because of some technical difficulties.  Suzanne is now on date for March 15th, she has some court things she has to deal with, so she wants to wait until everything is sorted before she gets baptized.  For February we are hoping to baptize 4 unbaptized children on the 22nd which we are excited for.  They are Tori and Troy Jackson, and Malani and Elicia Waka.  They have progressed well and we are really looking forward to it. 

 

A couple of weeks ago we tracted into a part member family.  Kara is a member, but her husband Vae is not a member.  We started teaching them and Vae is making the push to wanting to come to church and we are pretty sure we will be setting a baptismal date with him pretty soon here.  It is awesome.  There is also a set of sister missionaries that work in Helensvale and they contacted this "creepy guy" who said he was interested, they were scared to go teach him, so we did so and he turned out to be really solid.  He has Schizophrenia, but he said if he takes his medication, then he is good.  We are hoping he always takes his medication when we go to teach him.  But he wants to come to church and is really interested which is great! 

 

Also another miracle.  Today at transfer meeting I got to talk to one of the missionaries from my last area (Kenmore), and if you remember in past emails how I wrote about Nephi.  He was a Less Active member who flagged us down while we were tracting, when i was there he gave up smoking and starting becoming active in the church.  His partner is not a member who didn't believe in God and didn't want anything to do with us who was starting to talk with us before I left.  But Elder Emery told me today that they have set a Wedding Date for the 7th of June, and that she is being taught by the missionaries and is really keen.  So it was great to see some success happen from a seed I was able to plant in a previous area. 

 

I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

 

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

February 3, 2014

Hello All,

 

This week was great! We were able to see some miracles and see the work progress in the Helenvale area! Our investigator Suzanne is going to be baptized for sure on Saturday. Her testimony is really strong. She is going through a lot of trials at the time with her family life and other things in her life, but she realized that Satan is trying his hardest to make it so she couldn't be baptized. She told us for sure this week she is definitely not going to let Satan win and she will be baptized on Saturday. She said this experience has made her know for sure that the church is true. She has no doubts about it at all. Its great! I am really looking forward to Saturday! That was the biggest miracle for the week. We are also working with a Less Active family who has 2 children who are not baptized. Their name is the Waka family and we will be setting a goal for baptism with them sometime this week!

On Thursday we had a multi-stake cluster meeting to discuss what we need to do to bring the members and the missionaries together to Hasten the Work of Salvation. It was a meeting with the mission president, and the stake presidents and one of the area seventy. It was cool too because the zone leaders of the zones were sitting on the stand. It definitely brought the state of Queensland a lot of excitement for this next year. As a mission last year we baptized 600 people and the goal that was set for 2014 was to convert 1032 people in the Australia Brisbane Area. It is definitely a high goal, but there are more missionaries ever. We have the most missionaries in our mission than any other mission in Australia with about 260 missionaries, and now that the ward has been trained and committed to also find people for the missionaries to teach it should be easy to reach the goal. 600 baptisms broke the record for the number of baptism in a year for the mission. It was interesting because our stake president shared an experience where he was in a meeting with his high council and when they were making the goal for the stake, and he asked the leadership of the wards and stakes if they had brought someone into the church this last year. He said no one had raised their hands. He then went on to say if the members and most importantly the leadership of the wards and stakes put in an effort to find people for the missionaries to teach, then the goal that has been set will be easy. After the meeting there was definitely a lot more excitement towards missionary work. The bishop in our ward is now more engaged with us and success will come. I also feel that if everyone in the world will do their part and help the missionaries and share the gospel with their friends and apply what was taught by Prophets and apostles from our last General Conference, then the church will grow immensely this year as a whole. Now is a great time to be a missionary! Those people who read this who are thinking about going on a mission, Do it. It is an exciting time to be a missionary in the world today, because this time is the time for miracles.

I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Elder Kyler Powelson

January 28, 2014

Hello All,

This week was really good. We saw many miracles. We were able to set 2 baptismal goals with the Jackson families kids, Tori and Troy, and they are really excited to be getting baptized in a few weeks. We also saw many great miracles from tracting this week as well!

On Thursday we went tracting. We had another Elder with us from the zone temporarily because of some things that were happening, Elder Saaid. But we received a referral from a less active member on the street we decided to tract, and one of the first doors we knocked on it was the referral we were looking for and he set up a lesson with us and he wanted the person who gave us the referral to be there for the lesson as well, so we are going to be teaching his family on Wednesday. After that we kept tracting and we tracted into a Fijian family who were all less active members except for the man of the house. They let us in and we had a lesson with them, and they are looking to go back to church as well, so we are going to be going back to strengthen the members and to teach the gospel to the non member man. After that we continued to tract, and then we found another part-member family where the husband was not a member. The cool thing about this is that the non member husband was the one who told his wife that they needed to start going back to church. He wants to receive the missionary lessons, and he will make a great member of the church. After we visited them, it started to rain. We were seeing so many miracles, so we decided to not let the rain win and we continued to tract. We knock on a door and a 17 year old boy named Asher answered to door. He was telling us that his grandmother wanted him to get baptized, and so he let us in and we taught him a lesson. He is really interested and we are going back on Wednesday! It was great to witness these 4 miracles and I am looking forward with following up on them this week!

Yesterday was Australia Day so our P-day was moved to today (Tuesday), and yesterday morning we were in our garage doing our morning workouts. Now, the door from the garage to the flat locks if it shuts, and so we were working out and the wind blew the door shut. We didn't have our keys or our phone, and we were locked out of our flat. In most missionary flats I have been in there was some sort of way to easily great in, but our flat is pretty secure, which is a good thing. We called the housing coordinator and the mission office and they had no spare keys, so we had to resort to going to the agency. The only problem is that since it was Australia Day, everything was closed, so the agency was closed as well. We went to a members house who was nearby and we used their phone to call some of the other elders, and they came and picked us up. We went back to their area since our car keys were locked inside the flat. We were able to fit some of their clothes and we worked there for the day and we had to wait until this morning to get the keys from the agency to get back into our flat. It was an interesting experience, but now we have learned our lesson.

We are really looking forward to this week. We are having a meeting with all the local Stakes and an General Authority is coming and the Mission President will be there to discuss the Hastening the Work of Salvation, and the Zone leaders of the stakes that will be there are going to be sitting on the stand. So it will be an interesting experience sitting on the stand in a meeting with a member of the seventy.

I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Elder Kyler Powelson

January 22, 2014

Hello All,

This week was really good for us and we saw many miracles. After District Meeting yesterday morning, we decided to tract for most of the day, we found no potentials after about 4 hours of tracting, so we decided to visit some less actives, we taught a couple less active lessons and we were able to teach one of our investigators and have a really spiritual lesson. At the end of the night at 8 we were heading back to the flat for dinner, but we decided to stop at the 7 Eleven to top up our go cards (a card we put money on to pay for our fares on the buses and trains in Australia) since we were taking the train to the temple the next day and as we did so, one of the workers wanted to talk to us for a few minutes, so we shared a 5 minute message introducing the Book of Mormon. He was really interested and we have a lesson with him on Friday. He is a Muslim, but he is very interested in learning about becoming a Christian, which is great. It goes to show that as you work diligently as a missionary, people are still placed in your path in places where you don't expect it, so it is always essential to talk with everyone. It was a great experience!!

Suzanne is still doing really good and I am really looking forward to her baptism on the 1st of Feb. We are having a lesson today with one of the part member families we are working with, and we will hopefully be setting a goal for baptism with the kids. It will be great!

Since I was recently called as a zone leader, I had the privilege of attending a 2 day training that was given to us the the Assistants and President Henderson. We even got to stay in a hotel overnight since our zone is a bit away from the city. I will share one of the many things I learned. In Preach My Gospel page 10 it tells us that our success as missionaries is not measured by the number of baptisms we have, how many lessons we teach a week, not by many things, but our success is measured by the commitment we have to Find, Teach, and Baptize. There are many missionaries who baptize very little people, but the commitment they had was great, so that made them very successful. Some missionaries don't have very much commitment and baptize a lot of people. Some people have any commitment and still don't baptize anyone. So, it is important to know no matter what we are doing as missionaries, or what is happening in our areas, We are being successful missionaries if we show great commitment to Finding, Teaching, and Baptizing the Lord's children on this earth today. Commitment is not measured by any numbers. That is one of the main things I learned that many missionaries can apply to them, but I know that it is definitely true doctrine given to us through Preach My Gospel.

I hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Elder Kyler Powelson

January 13, 2014

Hello All,

My week was really good. I am really enjoying my new area and my companion Elder Nelson. We are working hard and we are finding a lot of success. Between the Part member families we are working with and the unbaptized children in the ward, and the investigators we have at the moment we have set a goal to baptize 7 people next month. We have 2 on date at the moment, but this week we are hoping to get more of them ready to set a goal for baptism! It is great to see this much success coming. Our investigator Suzanne who will be getting baptized on the 1st of February is getting really excited for her baptism. She has been taught by missionaries for almost a year now, and has now decided to be baptized. It is great to see the excitement she has about the gospel. She is making sure everyone at church knows that she is going to be getting baptized on the 1st of Feb. I am super excited for it. The other baptismal date we have is for the 8th of Feb and his name is Paul. I haven't met him yet because Elder Nelson found him while we were on trade offs, but he said that he was already coming to church and that everyone already thought he was a member, but he told us that he wants to be baptized! Those are 2 great miracles for the week! We have been finding success from tracting which is great and we have been teaching a few people that way. I will talk more about them once they become more progressing, but it is great! I love Helensvale a lot!

While tracting this week was had a few interesting encounters. Fun Fact: Australia has the 2nd highest alcohol consumption per capita in the world, so that alone makes a lot of interesting encounters with people. Most people like to drink especially on the weekends and Sunday mornings. I thought I had seen it all until we went tracting yesterday morning before church since we have church at 1pm. We approached this house and it had one of those speakers where you press the button, so we pressed it and this lady answered it. She couldn't hear us and so she hung up. As we were walking away from the house an older lady came running out. So I went back to the gate, and I will just say she was wearing probably the most minimal amount of clothing, making the situation more awkward, she tried to invite us in, I just looked away the whole time and just gave her a pamphlet with our number on it, so if she was actually interested in the gospel she would give us a call. So now I have seen something I never wanted to see. That is one of the many crazy stories of tracting in Australia.

We see much success from tracting otherwise. I love being a missionary and I know that missionary work is one of the greatest works on the earth today and now is the day for hastening the work of salvation. I know the church is true! My testimony has only been strengthened the last 19 months while I have been serving the Lord. I have seen many miracles and seen so many people change because of the gospel and I cannot deny the witness I have received that the Book of Mormon is true. The church is true! I love being a missionary and I hope you all have a great week!

Love

Elder Kyler Powelson

January 6, 2014

Hello All,

My week has been really good! I am really enjoying being in Helenvale! We are seeing a lot of success. To start the transfer off right we set a baptismal date with our investigator named Suzanne. She has been taught by missionaries for over a year, but has had some things holding her back, but those things are not holding her back anymore, and she is getting ready to be baptized on January 31st. I am really excited for it as well. We have been able to get some new investigators as well! We tracted into an older Lady by the name of Sue, and she is pretty sick and is looking for something in her life. We taught her about the Restoration and she feels that is what she needs in her life, so we are going to continue to teach her and see what happens. Elder Nelson has been out about a year on his mission and has been in the Gold Coast for his whole mission. His old area was the one just South of ours and we were walking down the street to visit a less active and he saw a Former Investigator family that he was teaching almost a year ago. They lost contact with them, and now he made contact with them again and we are hoping to set a baptismal date with them when we go around and see them tonight. Tracting has been really successful lately and we have been finding a lot of people who are interested, which is great! I am really looking forward to the new investigators we will get this week! The work is going well in Helensvale and I am really enjoying it here!

I have enjoyed my first week as a zone leader. There are 20 missionaries in the zone, 12 Elders and 8 Sisters. It is great having the opportunity to serve other missionaries too. Most missionaries just serve the people in the areas that they work with, but I am enjoying the opportunity to serve other missionaries and help motivate lift and inspire the missionaries in the Zone.

I love being a missionary and I am really looking forward to this next week and all the miracles that are going to happen. I miss you all and I hope you have a great week!

Love,

Elder Kyler Powelson

                Elder Kyler Powelson Sister and Brother Bohem

                             Jay Gutierrez Grandparents
                      (aka Jayne Gutierrez Mum and Dad)

December 31, 2013

Hello All,

I am doing great. I got transferred today. I was both sad and happy to leave Kenmore. I have been transferred to a place called Helensvale in the Gold Coast. I have also been called as a Zone Leader. My companion is also a Zone Leader and his name is Elder Nelson from Arizona. I Don't know much about him, but I am really looking forward to the time we will have together. I am looking forward to the change of being a zone leader. It will bring forth great challenges that I am looking forward to. I cant write too much because we have to be back at our flats early because of New Years Eve, but I will write more next week about my new area. I miss you all and I hope you all have marvelous week!

 Love,

Elder Powelson