Hey Mom,
This week was not the worst but not the best hahaha. The big highlights of the week was our o so fun tracting experiences, elder Cannons hair cutt, a kid named Alex who we tracted into and Kegan. On Tuesday we had a really good yet really long Zone Conference in Ashburn back in my old area. It was a really good conference and what was cool was the things that I had set a goal a week or 2 ago to learn about/ learn to do, the Zone Leaders talked about so we were taught it then practiced it. Pres Riggs had a lot of info for us so it it was a really good meeting. That night we went tracting and it was way funny because it was about 8:45 and I knock on a guys door and he just looks at us as im talking and says "no, thats not even friendly, do you know what time it is? Get out of my house." As we were just standing on his doorstep hahaha. It was pretty funny.
Then later in the week were tracting and talked with this teenager named Alex. He said that he was religous but he didn't like going to curch because he saw the corruption and was irritated with the fact that so many people do things at church for self gain. He really like the message of the Restoration because when we were telling him Joesph Smiths experiences and feelings he said "thats how I feel". We set up a return appoinment and really hope to be able to teach him. Its always a really really spiritual experience when you hear people your teaching say "that makes so much sense" or "thats how I feel". Because a) they are listening and b) they are letting the holy ghost confirm in their hearts that what we are saying is true. So that will hopefully be a really cool oppurtunity for us to teach him.
One day Elder Cannon needed a haircut so we went to get it cut. Well I kid you not when he walked out I told him he looked like a Nazi (thats not a lie he did) he saw his hair in the mirror and we had to go home and shave it down to a 2 just to even it out. So all the people at church think its for companionship unnity hahahaha but it was a really Really bad hair cut hahaha.
2 really cool things happened with Kegan this week. Kegan was debating whether or not to serve a mission. One of the things holding him back as the fact that he has some credit card debt and he is really worried about paying it off. Well he got his tax return this week and it was about 4x as much as last year. Last week we talked with him about tilthing and he wasnt paying as full as he should because there was stuff he said he needed to get. Well we told him it was an act of faith and to pay his full tithing. As soon as he did he got this huge return and was talked with sister Richardson and he is going to pay tithing off of it and then use the rest to pay off his debt. He then said a couple days later that because things were already lining up he wants to serve a mission!!!! 2 huge miracles. Im so excited for him. It was such a testimony builder to hear his experience with tithing. When we saw him that day the first thing he said was that he had been blessed and he went on to tell us what happened. It is soooo crazy to see the change he has made in his life since we began teaching him in December and he was Baptized and now living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not much more happened this week but we are trying so hard to find people to teach and to serve. The weather is so stupid here. It is currently snowing as it did last monday. What a joke hahaha.
Love Elder Powell
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