Veronique got baptized!!!

 

Hey Mom,

 

This week was awesome!!! So We had a lot of meetings that went really really well. We had a really long but good Zone conference about how for the next 52 days we are going to "Rise up and Rebuild the mission" its going to be awesome. We started out with a 24 hour fast. We broke the fast at the Lopez house and he made Spanish Spaghetti. All that is different is you use bacon not sausage and there is no sauce. It sounds dumb but it was so good. Then we had another Launching Leaders meeting. That was way good. We were able to learn a ton. We had a funny experience on monday. We got let in tracting (miracle) and after we were walking back to the car and we took a shortcut that Elder Christensen said he knew of and long story short it wasn't a shortcut and we ended up walking in this huge square for an hour till we got back to the car it was about 9:30. We had this cool lesson with this former investigator. His name is Scott. He is really religous (Jewish) and we brought our Ward Mission Leader with us. The teaching record said that he was a "tough cookie" and really old testemant rooted. So we were expecting it to be a really hard lesson. But it actually was pretty good. He was shocked to hear a lot of what we believe. He said none of it contradicts what he believes (expect Jesus being the Messiah). He was just shocked that we believe God to be embodied. He said he had never herd that before. But it was a really good lesson and he is willing to listen more.

 

Then we had Veroniques Baptism. It was awesome. We got there early to fill the font and it was taking a lot longer than expected and we thought that it wasn't going to be filled intime but it was. Everything went great. Then yesterday she was confirmed. The whole ward already knows her and loves her. One thing she said that she was so impressed with was how the ward was so loving and understanding with her son Phillipe (he is autistic and is 24 but is mentally about 4 she said). It was really cool to hear that come from her and she said that she know knew why we are refered to as saints. That was pretty humbling. It works out great when you are serving in a ward where they do so much to help fellowship and investiagator and it all works out perfectly. She siad the Baptism interview was really easy hahaha. It was funny though because our distrct leader who was giving the interview is from Taiwan and has a hard time with English and Veronique is french and sometimes cant understand what we say so that was a little joke we were talking about. On Tuesday I went on exchanges with the Elder Chan. He is from Hong Kong. It was awesome because we had a potential chinese investigator and it was in my last area and we stopped by him. Then we stopped by and saw Kegan and the Richardsons, and then Becky and Eleanor. that was awesome. They are all doing great. This week was great! Know we are back to trying to get some more investigators!!

 

Love

 

Elder Powell