Man O Man, the Lord has Blessed me!

Hi Mom!!!

Man O Man, the Lord has Blessed me and Elder Perry so much this week! We picked up 3 new investigators, put 2 on date and have a teaching pool of about 11 people. Me and Elder Perry were so busy this week and we loved it so much. Every night we came home and thank Heavenly Father for the people he has put in our path. Elder Perry invited our last investigator who is on date. And afterwards he ws talking to me (because he was so excited about what he was able to do) and shared with me how he was really bitter and never liked inviting people to baptism on the first lesson, but after i had done it a lot , he did it this lesson and loved the feeling afterwards and we continued to say how were both lucky we compliment each other so well in lessons! 

So last Monday was a bummer the 14 year old Zaria is degressing and were trying really hard with her to help see the imortance of baptism now instead of waitng till she's older. Then Tuesday, man Tuesday was EPIC! We taught miss Kelsi with her 3 huge football player grandson (i admit that was a little intimidating because we were gonna invite her to be baptized but then they were there so we just taught her on it) The grandsons really liked what they heard from us and really like us. We spoke specifically on 2 NE: 31 and the example Jesus set for us. Afterwards when we got mad at ourselves for not inviting her, we remembered we were gonna be back on Thursday to help her with her yard and Elder Perry was gonna be on an exchange and I was gonna be with the one of the Zone Leaders, so i said i was inviting her then... no questions asked. Then later that night we had a lesson with a man who speaks only Spanish. Luckily there is a returned missionary of only  a year and he still is fluent in spanish and translated the lesson and we invited Hector to be baptized and he accepted and that was such a great lesson. 

Then on Wednesday. O man!!  So at district meetings on Tuesday the zone agreed to do a 24 hour fast to keep the people we put on date (23 in the last 2 weeks) to stay on date. So we started the fast and had service that day at Henry's who is the old Dutchman where we got our poison ivy. We were tearing all the plastic down off the greenhouse and it was nice and humid and hot! Perfect for a fast right? I cant remember the last time i sweat that much. And to protect ourselves from the Ivy we were all wearing long sleeves. But we survived! We also found a snapping turtle in the greenhouse so we all took pictures with it hahaha. Later that night we met with Wayne Poffinbarger. The definition of a redneck. But it was a great lesson. We taught him at his home (it is in a trailer park that we tracted 2 weeks ago and found a lot of potentials). He had no shirt on was smoking the whole time and burping and it was just way fun. We invited him also to church and baptism and he said he'd pray about baptism. Then the exchange on Thursday with Elder Church. We went to Country Cookin (a buffet) at 7 to break our fast and holy cow i haven't eaten that much in a long time! Elder Perry and I said they needed a wheel barrow to get us out of the there. But we made the exchange and went tracting (found a lot of potential Spanish families) and golden investigator named Linda. We taught her the restoration on her doorstep and left her with a book of mormon, invited her to church and then we plan on meeting with her this week. Shes way nice and doesnt like how churches get real technical on what a verse is saying and is looking for a church so it was perfect. Then we helped Mrs Kelsi with her yard and we invited her to be baptized and she said she would pray about it and told us she loved how we ask her and don't tell her to do stuff. Then we went with our ward mission leader on an exchange to the Paiges. there a part member family and we found out his big "wall" wiht the church. he feels if he were to join it would be like taking his knowledge of Jesus Christ away and having to start over. We told hi that wasnt the case and he came to chruch!! Then on  the drive home (*this is the funniest thing ever) Our ward mission leader ran over a racoon. I was trying so hard not to laugh because the dumb thing hopped right in front of us. Brother Hansen was freaking our because he felt so bad and the thing wasn't dead yet and he didnt know what to do. He asked me and i couldnt even look at him or else i was gonna laugh. So Elder Church was like i think you have to run it over again and he did and the whole time he was like "O my gosh o my gosh". When we got back and into our car i started laughing and Elder Church was laughing and i just thought it was hilarious because poor brother Hansen was panicing so much. Friday was average, then saturday we had that awesome lesson with this lady named Heather and her family. She accepted baptism and her husband probaly will too soon. Then on Sunday it was a great sacrament meeting and all. But this week was amazing and were hoping we don't get transfered this week because we get along so well and the work is picking up!

Love ya,

Elder Powell