This is who I am now, deal with it!

Hey Mom!

 

This week was not as productive as last week but thats ok. The main reason is beacuse it freaking snowed a ton on Wednesday. That was our biggest day of the week aside from sunday and everything was cancled because of the snow. We went around and tried to help people shovel their dirveways but they all said no. Keep in mind these were all people who were struggling to do it and we could tell needed help. Thats the one thing about out here. No one excepts any service. Unless they ask you they hardly ever accept any help.  We were walking by this one guy who dropped his groceries on the ground right in front of us and we were like "Can we help you pick that up?" and he was like "No no no im good". So Basically we aren't even going to ask anymore we are just going to start serving right off the bat hahaha.

 

Becky and Eleanor are still doing great. They are going through a lot but they are still on date. Funny story. Eleanor is 16 and is dating this Senior who is 17 and after we taught her the Law of Chastity she took the pamphlet (we have pamphlets that we use when we teach for most of the lessons) and gave it to her boyfriend and made him read it. Well he only got to the first page and after reading that he threw it in the back of his car, pretty funny. Well that made her mad so she asked us for another one and took it to her boyfriend and made him read it hahaha. She told him "this is who I am now" and basically told him to deal with it. It was really funny when she told us the story. We finished teaching them yesterday. So they are all ready for their interviews which will be on Tuesday.

 

On Saturday we had a lesson with this man named Emmanuel. Elder Rausch and I found him and began teaching him back in October. Well he has been so busy that we have only had 6 lesson with him. But he has not been keeping his commitments and hasen't been to church yet. The member that was with us at the lesson served his mission in Brazil and was taliking with us about his mission when they had people that weren't progressing and they had to let them know that they weren't going to be coming around until they started keeping their commitments. The lesson went ok but Emmanuel has no problem with being Baptized but is not keeping any commitments so he isn't progressing. Well the member talked us through what they did in his mission so we are going to prayefuly consider what do with Emmanuel. The hard part is we don't have that many people that we are teaching so if we drop him were down to Becky and Eleanor and oh ya they are being baptized in 5 days. Training isn't going nearly as bad as i thought it would go. I always saw training as something that would be a burden hahaha. But Elder Cannon is a great kid so its all good. We just keep tracting and trying to find some new people but are too succesful. Oh ya and transfers were this week. Im staying AGAIN in Haymarket to finish training elder Cannon.....another 6 weeks.  Love you mom...so happy for you!

 

love you

Elder Powell