They were Baptized!! What an Journey it was!!

 

 

Hey mom!

 

Becky and Eleanor did it!!!! They were Baptized!! What an Journey it was. The Baptism was way spiritual. So many people were in attendance. Literally almost half the ward. Then she had her past missionaries there as well. Elder Cannon and I gave the Talks. I spoke on Baptism and he Spoke on the Gift of the Holy Gohst. It was only appropriate that I spoke on baptsim because Becky refers to me as her used car salesman because of how persistent I was in constatly asking her to be Baptized hahaha. You know how I am when I want something. After wards we had a really great time talking in the Cultural hall with some Recent converts and with a lady whos husband is not a memeber.

 

Now that Becky and Eleanor were Baptized we are back down to really no one we are working with. We have been trying and trying to find new people but nothing is really happening. But we got in contact with the other missionaries that go to our building (they arent in our district) and we have some service oppurtunities set up. There is a man in their ward who is helping build houses for a non profit organization and we are going to help him with that. So we FINALLY have some service to do. Its not going to be like good old Culpeper though.

 

Earlier in the week we had a good lesson with a woman named Adrian and her kids. They met us at starbucks because no one was available to come with us to teach her. She is Catholic and really knows her religion. We were talking with them and the kids would ask if we parcticed Lent and Confirmation and stuff like that. But we know she totally felt the Spirit during the lesson. When we were sharing the First Vision and talking about the Restoration she was really quiet and starring at us. She really liked the fact when we told her that all we do as Missionaries when we teach people is INVITE them so read ponder and pray about the Book of Mormon. So she really likes the non preassure part of the lessons. We weren't really able to see anyone else this week. Rod did show up to church again. We stopped by and invited him to the Baptism. He said that he would try and make it but didnt end up being there. He said that his wife didnt come home in time and for being a new investigator we understand how he would be really uncomfortanle if he showed up with out his wife. He is who we will be working with next. He is the closest to Baptism. We hope to have a lesson or 2 with him this week and its all going to be about Jesus Christ. We are going to watch the videos Finding Faith in Christ, The Lamb of God, and A Special Witness of Christ. We hope that with those videos and with the reading that we leave him to do that he will be able to build a nice foundation/ testimony about Jesus Christ.  It was a slow week but also a really good one. This next week should be really good. We have Zone Conference on Tuesday and Zone Training on Wednesday. Im excited to see Pres Riggs.  

 

 

Love Elder Powell