On to Haymarket!

Hi Mom,

I was transfered to the Haymarket ward in the Centreville stake. Now it is Centerville but they spell it Centreville. Best part. My new comp is like the coolest kid ever!!!!! We were seriously best friends before we even got home fro transfer meetings. His name is elder Jacob Rausch (rowsh) from Kerns Utah. He went to high school with my trainer which is pretty funny. But we literally share like everything in common and are having soooooo much fun. The new ward is really small but most wards out in northern Virginia are. The area is incredibly wealthy. Most of our area is all gated communities. So we are trying to come up with diffrent effective ways to find. So Haymarket has a lot of history in it. In our boundries is the battle of Bull Run. We are in Prince William County and the library we go to is called the Bull Run library. Even the elementry school is called Battlefield elementry. i just think all that is sooo cool hahaha. But i love this area soooooo much!! and my new comp he is sooooo awesome we get a long so well. We were talking with president and he was saying that he really feels food about or companionship and is excited to see what happens. Our district leader is elder Yates. The reason i mention it is because he has a lacrosse scholarship to BYU and we would talk all the time at diffrent meetings and now hes my DL!!!! One of the sisters that was in the MTC with me is in our district so thats going to be fun. She is really nice so meetings are going to be awesome.

 

It was pretty hard saying goodbye to the people in Culpeper. Mrs Kelsey held it together and didnt cry. But i called her on friday to let her know where i went and she is really happy for me. Whats funny is Chris Thug Poet and Sister Craighead both offered to buy me a cheap phone to keep on vibrate to stay in contact with them hahahaha. I do really miss Culpeper but i love my new area and comp is its bittersweet. Just like it will be when i leave any area or when i come home. But it all works out everytime!

 

On saturday we helped out the ward with the day of service that was going on in Northern Virginia. Basically last year the church did a food donation drive because september is hunger awarness month. So the governor of virginia got word because the area seventy wanted to approve it with him. Well he loved it so much that he adopted it as his own and then the govenor of Maryland, West Virginia and the Mayor of DC all made it a state wide thing. So there was A TON of effort being put in by the state and church leaders. Elder Rausch and I stood outside Giant (a grocery store) with other members and would ask them if they wanted to help by buying or donating to the Haymarket food pantry. It went really well but a lot of people blew us off because we were missionaries hahaha. But we exceeded our goal of 250 thanksgiving baskets and had enough food to make almost 400 and had a ton of money and extra stuff donated. So everyone was really happy.

 

The other news is we are getting a diffrent appartment and it is incredibly nice. It is the only one in our area that is available now. Our appartment now has a ton of 2nd hand smoke that comes through the vents and is just a filthy place. So the new place i swear looks like the Boardwalk Hotel out in Florida in downtown disney. it is crazy how nice it is hahaha. But ya we got the news we could get a new place a couple of hours after i unpacked all my stuff lol. But all is well and i love where im at and my new comp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! everthing is awesome. O ya my first sunday in the ward Elder Rausch, our WML and I all spoke on missionary work and the stake president was there hahahaha. But it was all good.

LOVE

Elder Powell