First off I would just like to say that I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family. Mom and Grandma, because of your efforts in sending packages I have received the most packages of any missionary in my district and it makes me want to live with you for eternity even more. haha! Hadley, you are slacking...you have not written me yet and i miss you alot!! I hope you are doing well. Mom thanks so much for all the delicious treats my district LOVES the pumpkin bread and you are basically the coolest mom inthe district! Grandma, your cinnamon rolls were awesome, thank you so much! If this is getting forwarded to the Robinson's, thank you so much for the Krispy Kreme donuts, my district also loved those! And thank you so much Aunt Mims for the Christmas package. I was so happy to hear from you and so grateful! Mom, you asked where my companion is from and where he is going, he is going to Ogden with me! He is from Alaska, and like I said we are super different but we get along well for sure! A lot of the time he likes to tell me what to do, and I guess it's punishment for my struggles with authority in high school and so I needed to be humbled. haha - I really do love him though.
Some crazy things happened this week though that truly opened my eyes to how aware HeavenlyFather is of each one of us. This week Elder Copans moved in about 3 doors down from me and it has been great! He is in my branch and I love getting to see him around, but that's just the beginning! Last Sunday we each had to come to Church with a 5 minute talk prepared and than the Branch President would call on two of us out of the branch of about 50-60 people to give their two talks. I went to church really not wanting to give my talk basically because I was just nervous to do it but that's beside the point. The branch president waited until after the sacrament to announce who would be giving talks, and he said "First, we will have the privilege of hearing from Elder Copans, and following him we will hear from Elder Powers" I was so shocked! The Branch President definitely didn't know we were best friends and that that would be a really cool experience and a memory for me, but The Lord did, and so that's why he inspired the Branch President to have us both speak. At first I was a little nervous about giving the talk when I heard my name called but than, as always, Heavenly Father is there, and the Spirit took over and I felt so at peace. When I got to the pulpit after Elder Copans I felt inspired to speak about something different than I prepared my talk on, so I did. I opened my mouth and its like the words were just put there. It was SO AWESOME. It turned out to be such a blessing to speak, and afterwards I just thought about how much Heavenly Father knows what we need,and how he can stretch us to help us become the missionaries we need to become. I have like a minute left - shoooot! But read Alma Chapter 5!! I got so much out of it this week! I love you all to death and will try and write individual letters before I leave the MTC! Also randomly, I talked toElizabeth Smart (girl that got abducted) she is now Sister Smart. Kindacrazy! I love you all so much!
Elder Powers
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