Mission conference with Elder Packer!!

Hey MOM!!

This week was such an improvement from any other week I have had in this area! We were able to meet with most of the people that we are teaching and we were FINALLY able to meet with this one investigator and her daughter are really close to Baptism. The mom is named Becky and she has been taking the lessons for about a year. She would have been Baptized months ago but she is living with a man who she is not married too. So the ward and the missionaries have spent months waiting to see what was going to happen with this situation. When i got to this area the missionaries were meeting with them a lot and doing a lot of service at there place but like as soon as i got here Becky and her daughter Eleanor became sooo busy that we practically havent seen them until this week. Something happened and now Becky and Eleanor are moving out and the best part is they are moving in the ward bounderies. They are moving either this weekend or the next so thats going to be happening with them soon!

 

We were also able to have a lesson with a man named Tim Havrilla who has been investigating the church for a long time. He wanted to read in the book of Revelations hahahha so that what we went over. We were also able to meet with a teenage girl named Jessica. Her mom and her twin Jennifer converted last yeat but Jessica did not. She says that she just doesn't know weather she wants to be baptized or not. But we were able to get her to commit to pray about it and to read from the Book of Mormon. We were able to meet other people as well so it was a good week.

 

Then yesterday we had this awesome mission conference with Elder Packer of the 70 and his wife. They are such awesome people! it was 6 hours long and we all learned a lot. At lunch Sister Riggs pulled me aside and we talked with the Packers about my health. Elder and Sister Packer have a son who has the same disease I do and they said that he had a lot of back pain as well and he was diagnosed with something called Spondolitis or something so they told me to ask the doctors to do this certain test to check for it. So that was fun conversation hahaha. It was pretty amazing that I was led to them and they were inspired about my health and their son has the same disease.  The Packers are just really awesome so it was an awesome day yesterday! Transfers are supposed to be on the 20th but they havent decided weather to make it the 27th (a 7 week transfer) or keep it the same day and have a small meeting. Regardless i hope i get transfered!!.

 

Love YA!!!

 

Elder Powell