"This all makes sense"

Hey mom!

 

This week was soooo legit! The reason is because Becky has been through so much and she is still on date for Baptism. I kid you not she is literally having a Job from the old testemant experince. Every day it is something. But she is staying strong and also Eleanor is helping her. Eleanor is so excited to be baptized. Its really cool to be able to see the changes they have made.

 

We found 2 new investigators as well this week. On was a part member family that just moved into the ward and the Husband is not a member but wants to be Baptized. He doesn't have a solid knowledge though of Jesus Christ. So we are trying to build a good foundation for him and to help him realize who Jesus Christ really is and what he has done for him. His name is Rod. He does boxing and MMA and loves being active. When we had dinner we had a really good conversation. Then we had a lesson with a lady that we tracted into 4 weeks ago. She sat on her door step and we taught he the restoration. She said something that I love to hear investigators say. "This all makes sense". We had a couple of lessons with Becky. Eleanor has been really busy with school and she is doing Young Woman projects with a girl from the ward. But the lessons we had were with the Schmidts and a recent convert who is her neighbor. She absolutly loves the Schmidts. She really does think that they are perfect. The lesson was really good because she wanted to discuss Testimonies and what they are, if you can have more than one, and stuff like that. She says that her favorite day is Fast and Testimony meeting.

 

On Thursday we had a meeting with all the trainers and the Trainees. its called Return and Report. During it we split into 2 seperate rooms and all the Trainers went into one and the Trainees stayed in their room. It was way funny to hear what the Sister said their comps were struggling with, and the Elders didnt really have much to say. That was a pretty fun meeting. Pres Riggs is such an awesome guy! Then on Friday we had a Zone Training with him.  2 Elders from the Missionary department came and talked a lot with him and toured the mission so he had some stuff he wanted to Train us on. One of the things he also talked about is the mission split. Yes the new Chesepeke mission effects us. The new mission is taking 4 of the Richmond missions stakes, and 2 of the North Carolina stakes. So Richmond is taking the Frederiksburg and Woodbridge stake. Meaning Culpeper is gone. There has not been an announcement if they are taking missionaries or not but lets be real. They aren't going to white wash 2 zones. So it is a realy stressful time for Pres Riggs. He has to create areas and fill all the new missionaries coming in and then do something with the mission split. He told us that transfers are really hard to do right now because he doesn't know if the people he puts in certain areas are going to be one of his missionaries anymore or not. I dont think I will go just beacuse all my doctors are in burke and that would be way inconvienient to get all new doctors and stuff out in Richmond. But thats all we know.

 

The quorm of the Twelve just changed the rule on emailing and we can now email friends back home and recent converts from our last area. So that was pretty cool! Transfers are this week so we will see what happens. I think im staying but then again I dont know what the Heavenly Father has in store for me! So yesterday we got a private tour of the Supreme Court!! We thought it was the capitol but it turned out to be the Supreme Court. It was way legit!!!! Some parts we could take pictures and some we couldnt. But the cool part was we were able to be in the office of Justice Thomas and he has this cool custom made coat rack that says "hang your Egos here". The reason we got the tour is beacuse our DL's sister is friends with one of the Clerks for Justice Thomas. So that was way fun. Interesting fact. There is a basketball court above the Supreme Courtroom. We got to take pictures up there. So ya it was way fun.

 

Love Elder Powell