1 Month in the Field!!!

Sept. 5, 2016  2:09pm

Dear Friends and Family:



Well everyone another week in Texas down and only 97 to go... I think.

It's been a while since I've taken math haha. Anyways it's been a good

week in Killeen! We've had the opportunity to teach and meet a lot of

awesome investigators and members! It's always interesting meeting new

people because everyone has a different story and different

experiences so you can learn a lot about life by talking to people. We

also had a funny experience with a woman this week as we were figuring

out how to help clean out her house (She had a hoarding situation

going on). After we had gone through her house and created a game plan

on how we were going to clean this house we found out she was super

into astrology and she was giving us all our horoscopes. We also found

out she was a church choir singer and we all ended up singing church

hymns and eventually a few of her neighbors came out and joined us so

it was an awesome and really funny visit with her. This week we had 5

investigators at church. I also got to participate in a baby blessing

which was an awesome experience! We also found out that next week we

are going back up to Hurst for a follow-up training meeting which is a

3 hour drive from Killeen. Time is flying by and it feels like I've

been here forever but at the same time I feel like I've been here for

a week. I also hit my month mark in the field this week which is

exciting as well!



Miracle of the Week:



This week we got invited out to lunch with one of the senior

missionary couples. We almost didn't go because we were headed

somewhere else but we decided to go. We went to a little philly

cheesesteak stand in front of a Lowes. We met a woman there and we

started talking about eternal families with her and as we were talking

we found out her husband had passed away and that he was a member of

the church but she wasn't. So we gave her a Book of Mormon and talked

about the plan of salvation a little bit. After we had given her the

Book of Mormon she burst into tears and gave us all hugs because after

her husband had passed away she had gotten really angry and gave their

Book of Mormon away and she never thought she would be able to get

another one. This experience really taught me that the Lord is always

preparing people to hear the gospel and you just have to look for and

find those people by sharing our message of Jesus Christ and his

gospel. It's important to always listen to the promptings of the Holy

Ghost and act on them because you never know what your actions could

do for either yourself or others!



Love

-Elder Beau Power

3rd Week in Texas!!!

August 29, 2016  12:39pm

Dear Family and Friends:

Well my 3rd week in Killeen is almost up and what a week it has been!
I'm slowly but surely starting to get to know my way around this
place! I'm also starting to finally get to know the people in the
wards we are over at least a few of them anyways! We cover two wards
and there a lot of people I'm trying to remember and who is in what
ward and all that good stuff but it is slowly coming along. I also had
the opportunity to speak in sacrament after some speakers couldn't
make it so I'm at least getting myself out there so people know me! I
spoke on a First Presidency Message by Gordon B. Hinckley called In
These Three I Believe from July of 2006. We also had to drive up to
Hewitt this week for Zone Conference which was fun but we used up a
lot of miles so we are being forced to used our last 30 miles of the
month very carefully. We also have had some good lessons with our
investigators this week which is always awesome. It's always to cool
to see something click with an investigator or when they are able to
really feel the spirit while we are teaching them or when they come to
church! We also had some more interesting lessons this week haha! Let
me just say that not all lessons go as well as others! We had a lesson
this week with an older man and he tried converting us to his church
with some anti-Mormon videos and other things so that was interesting
to say the least haha. Anyways long story short we won't be heading
back there for a while. But other than that things have been going
good here!

Miracle of the Week:
This week I had the opportunity to meet a sister in one of our wards
who had a brain aneurysm and lost her memory completely. She didn't
remember her family, who she was, or who her husband was. After she
had returned home from the hospital she saw a Book of Mormon in some
of her stuff. She looked at it and eventually made the decision to
keep going to church because she knew that before her incident there
was a reason she belonged to this church even though she didn't know
what that reason was. I think her story is one of the greatest
examples of faith I've seen. She had every reason to stop going to
church or to stop visiting with us but she didn't because she has that
faith that there is a reason she belongs to this church. Her story
reminds me a lot of a scripture in Ether 12:12 "For if there be no
faith among the children of men God can do no miracle among them;
wherefore, he showed not himself until after their faith".

-Elder Beau Power