Blessings in disguise

Yo momma,

This week was really interesting. Like it had a lot of ups and some downs hahaha. The downs were simply, our investigators are not keeping there commitments. It really really sucks! We put Mrs Kelcy on date so we have a total of 6. 1 for June 16th. 3 for June 23rd. And 2 for June 30th. BUT none of them are keeping there commitments and its hard.  Investigators have to come to church 3 times before there baptism and Mrs Kelcy is the only one who has come once and its just getting frustrating. But enough with the bad :).

So Monday we visited a lot of people in our ward (less actives) and tried to tract but no one was answering hahaha. Then Mom and Dad (Doug and Karen) had us 4 Elders over for a memorial day cookout. That was way fun and we could all barley walk home. (they live in our appartment complex) Then tuesday was a normal day of work and then wednesday was p-day. We halped this really cool lady named Linda Price move. She is moving to warrenton which is about 30 minutes above us (the closest anyone from our mission is) so we refered her to them and there gonna start teaching her. Then on thursday was district meetings. Im way excited because Elder Williams who is from my MTC district who im really tight with and Elder Mochozuki who is frommy appartment in Ashburn are both in the Zone. So im hapy i get to see them everyweek and talk with them. Then on Friday we went to Fairfax to get my medicine. It went really well and took about 3 hours. Then the coolest thing happened. A random nurse walked up to us and said "so im in the book of  Jacob, how long is it going to take me to finish?" and we were literally dumbstruck for a couple seconds then said "You're reading the Book Of Mormon?" and she was like "Ya, my friend gave me one and I love it. I can connect personally to it!"  Ummm,  talk about music to our ears!! We then talked with her for a little bit and long story short she watched general confrence this year and loves president monson, has been to a baptism and says she felt the same as when she reads the BOM and we were like go back onmormon.org and you can find the missionaries in your area. We were like you have to talk with them!! so that was way awesome. Then we were driving home and it was POURING! The thunder and lighting was rediculous!!!! THen we got a text from president sayiing there was a tornado warning in fairfax and county and were like ya that would happpen, the one day were way up fairfax and there would be tornadoes hahaha. But we made it home fine but it was the loudest thunder and strongest rain iv ever been in. Our little corolla was shaking a lot hahaha.

The best part was on saturday we had dinner at the Stephens and Brother Stephens made me your apple snickers salad! He hands me this bowl to put on the counter and i wasnt paying attention then i looked at what it was and i was like HEY!  THAT'S MY....and he interrupts and says "yup your mom gave us the recipe hope it tastes good"  Man i was in heaven and he gave us the left overs (shocking there was any) and we have it at home. Blessings in disguise :).

Well the work continues and were just happy and loving Culpeper. Our whole mission is trying to step it up for President Griggs so thats our objective.  I love you!

Love

Elder Powell