Things are picking up!!!

Hi Mom,

This week was a pretty good week. Last P-Day we had a BBQ at the Centreville stake center with the whole zone. That was way fun. I brought my LAX stick so Yates and I played catch. We were both in heaven. We both cant find any goals anywhere to go shooting but we finally had a chance to use our sticks. (besides using them in the new appartment with tennis balls annoying our new neighbor hahaha). But that was way fun and we played a lot of diffrent things.

 

Then that night we finally had a 1st lesson and picked up a new investigator!!!!!! Its the african american man named Emanuel. He is pretty dang nice. He wanted us to have the first lesson with just him then the next ones will be with his whole family. He really liked the lesson. He said that he will take it seriously and will pray and he feels this would be really good for his kids. We are so excited. Then on Tuesday was the longest zone conference of my life. It was 7 hours long hahaha. What was cool though was that it was at the Ashburn Stake Center where I fisrt started my mission. So it was really fun to be back in that bulding. We spent a lot of time teaching each other. But it just kept going on and on hahaha.

 

That night we did some more tracting and met some potentials. We have been trying most this week to meet with this family in particular. We tracted into his wife but everytime we come back they are busy but they do actually seem interested. They were one of the only few people that didnt think anything when we said what church we were from. Wednesday went pretty fast. There is this 15 year old that the missionaries have been teaching for a while and said she would like to be baptized on her birthday which is november 25th. So we stopped by her house but barley talked for a little bit outside because she has strep throat that was a very very short visit. Something very funny happened that night, Rausch locked us out hahaha. So we spent the night at the Vint Hill Elders appartment and slept on some.......old missionary abused couches hahaha. The next morning we were helping a family move. That was pretty fun because they didnt rent a big enough truck they thought they had less stuff. So when it started to get full thats when it was funny. Trying to cram all sort of stuff in. But they did it and it worked out. The dad and son took us to lunch and we were all talking about funny mission stories. They were both RM's. The son served in England but not one of the London Missions and the dad served somewhere else. But that was dun.

 

Then later that night we helped out WML with a blessing, that took up a lot of time due to the fact that the lady talked for like 2 hours. But the blessing went well and she had 2 awsome dogs. One was boxer and one was pug. They were funny dogs so i spent a lot of time playing with them. Friday we spent planning and tried some more tracting and had a lot of dropped appointments so that was a long day. I started getting a cold on Wednesday because its the end of the month and we are running low on miles we decided to ride our bikes. Well Elder Rausch's bike had problems one right after the other. So we spent a lot of Saturday fixing all of that and trying to get to diffrent places and it was just a bad day. And on Sunday i was pretty sick so we spent the whole day inside but I am feeling a lot better now. So this week was very up and down but a good week. Im excited for the people we now have to teach so things are picking up!!!

Love Elder Powell