What a week! So pretty much Veronique had this awesome miracle and she is getting Baptized on Friday. We were over there on Tuesday. She ended up going to the Stake Pres' house for family home evening and loved it. Thir daughter who is like 20 was a huge help with Veroniques son Phillip (autistic) and they all had a wonderful time. So what ended up happening is this. For the past several weeks and Jewish convert from our ward (Veronique is Jewish) has been coming over and explaining a lot during the lessons because Veronique has read a ton of stuff (Preach My Gospel, almost all of the Book of Mormon, The Work and Glory books and she really knows the Old Testemant). She has know in her mind for a while that this church is true but she wanted to feel it in her heart. When we first got to the lesson we gave Phillip a blessing and then after the lesson Brother Cohn (the member) asked if she wanted one. She was a little resentful but then said yes. After the blessing she turned to us and said "I want to be Baptized! I know it is true, I cant describe how I am feeling" She decsribed how she has been feeling before the blessing like this. She could see the tree and knew what the fruit would taste like but she could not reach the fruit. She was so close to grabbing it, it hurt. She wanted to taste it so badly! During the blessing she said the she was lifted and grabbed the fruit and partook. What a miracle!!!!! Because of that she is getting baptized and we went to the Temple Visitors Center on Saturday and it was awesome. She called so many people to tell them that she was know ready. It was way cool. On the drive home from the lesson we were all like "wow we did not see that coming but that is awesome!" So she is doing great!
We had interviews this week with Pres and they went great. I love him so much!!!! We also saw a lady who has been takling the lessons for a while. I took a pic of her dogs because she rescued one and it is best friends with the other one she already has and they were laying down all funny. Then we threw a suprise celebration for Elder Christensen because it was his birthday this week. I got the chinese elders and the fairfax elders to come and surprise him. So we shot him with his own airsoft gun 20 times to celebrate hahaha. great times. I dont have much more time because we are going to DC and leaving in a couple of minutes.
Love ya,
Elder Powell
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