Hi Mom!
Man what a week it has been. The poison ivy has effected us all. All 4 of us in the appartment got put on prednisone for the week to stop the ivy from spreading. Were all doing a lot beter now, but to put it simlpy it was casuing a lot of problems this week. The few days that i was able to go out on exchanges with who ever else was able to work, we were able to work for a little bit. Elder Perry and Elder Hubbard were inside for most the week and Elder Eaton was able to go out a couple of times. I had the least ivy compared to everyone else so i was the only one that could go a whole day BUT i had to do like shifts with the diffrent elders as they got better each day. So work wise this week was slow. But we were able to get done what we really needed to so it worked out great.
Now when i say this area has a lot of potential i mean it has a lot of work to get done to get this ward back to what it should be. So heres the whole scandal that went down in this ward about 40 years ago. (uncle steve will love this). The mission president that was here 40 years ago stressed the importance of baptism like you wouldnt believe. It go to the point where if a mom of a family was baptized the missionaries would put down the whole family was. Therefore 70% of the ward is in active due to the fact that they dont even know their members!! The ward cant split into a new stake because of the huge mess of membership records. The man that told us all of this was the old High Priest group leader. So the work that me and Elder Perry have to do is basically tracting down like 150+ members seeing who's actuallly baptized and who is just a reported number. Theres a lot more to that story but that can wait so thats a taste of what drama we are dealing with the aftermath of.
The coolest thing that happened though was the tri mission conference with Elder Bednar, Elder Snow of the 70 presidency who is now the church historian. A member of the Presiding Bishopbric of the Church, and our area 70. Holy cow! Elder Bednar said we were not allowed to take notes on what he said, but rather take notes on what the spirit was promting us to do. He asked us questions for the first hour and a half, then the second hour and a half we got to ask him questions. The other men also answered the questions so that was awesome. And becasue i was the least afflicted with the ivy i was the one that made the drive to the DC Temple. So that was interesting. We were up at 430 and out the door at 530 because were the farthest missionaries form the temple. But it was tons of fun and the Beltway freeway has this awesome turn where you come over the top and see the DC temple in the background. Its way cool. So what i felt most impressed to do from all of what those 4 men taught us was to study the Atonement more and to put into perspective how much i really rely on the savior for his help and for what he has not only done for me but for everyone. It was an amazing conference.
Church here is humid and hot! Mom, you would be dying. The AC is set to not work on Sundays. Go figure- so their trying to figure that out, hahaha. Well now that were all doing better from the ivy were excited to back to work!
I can't wait to talk to you on Mothers Day. I love you!
Elder Powell
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