" Hey you guys want to go to the NRA museum?"

Hey Mom!

The humidity is coming!!!!!!! This week was pretty good. It has been raining on and off so we will have hot days and not so hot days. But when its hot boy is it humid. My comp sweats a ton and its funny because it isnt even that humid yet compared to what it actually will get to. So hears the news on that. He is a Visa Waiter for Australia and his Visa came. So he will be leaving on the 17th with 4 others to Melbourne Australie. So what we are thinking is going to happen is the other Elder in my district (also named Elder Cannon. He came out alsmost a year ago and is from Southern California) is also training one of the Visa waiters going to Melbourne leaving the same day. So we think we are going to be comps and work both wards  for the last 3 weeks of the transfer. Pres Riggs hinted at me and said that he will have me train next transfer again (not a Visa Waiter) and he just needs to confirm it with the Lord hahaha.

 

But we found 5 new investigators this week! 2 of them are the most promising. They are a brother and sister ages 15 and 23. Will is the Brother and Nataile is the Sister. Will has been doing some soul searching and has gone to a couple different churches and is really interested in learing more. Natalie is interested as well but when we taught them their parents were not home and we are waiting to get permission from the parents to continue teaching Natalie. We also started teaching this really old Hindu from India. He has the heaviest accent ever I kid you not. His neighbors have been bringing him to church and he has told people in the ward and past missionaries that none of them are smart enough to teach  him. But he let us teach one lesson and agreed for us to come back this week so hopefully he has a change of hear. The other 2 are 2 brothers named Darius and Quitin. We tracting into them and what happend was the light switch of my bowels flipped on and I need to hit the restroom righ then and there so we knocked the door in faith that they would answer and I could use the restroom and they did. While I was using the restroom Elder Brooks talked with them and they agreed to have us come back. So we came back on saturday night and had a great lesson. The are 13 and 15. There mom said something funny when we were there the first time. She came out of her bedroom to see who was there and (i was in the bathroom at the time) when she saw Elder Brooks she says "no way I got to church, talk to my kids" and slams the door hahahah. So ya we are teaching the kids now. Saturday was a pretty fund day. We had all these plans for the morning and night. Well all the morning ones fell through so when we were dropping off the kid that came out with us to teach (Brother Niemans son) and  his dad needed help going to get a washer machine and then putting it in his house so we waited for him to go get a truck and Sister Niemann came down stairs with a project for us to do while we waited. We made trains out of cardboard and spray painted them for a piano recital she had that night and also played some hockey in there garage until Brother Niemann came back. She was taking some pics of it all so I have some to forward to you. Then we helped with the washer machine and we were on our way. After that we went to stop by this awesome family in our ward named the Mortensons (brother mortenson grew up in Blythe!!!! He has some stories about that) to do the member revelation question. When Elder Brooks explained that he is leaving in a week and mentioned that he loved guns Brother Mortenson got his guns out and showed them to us and was like " Hey you guys want to go to the NRA museum?" So we were like "umm duh" so we went to the Museum and had a fun time (its only 4 miles away) and he took us out to dinner. His whole family was out of town in Georgia so he was looking for something to do. We thought if it as Elder Brooks only oppurtunity to see any musuem before he left so ya that was a fun day. Other than that the same old same old is happening!

 

Love

 

Elder Powell