The humidity is here though!!!!!

 

 

Hey Mom,

 

This week was awesome. We had some really good experiences. One was the lesson we had with Scott (the learned Jew). He is still reading the Book of Mormon and has a ton of really deep and difficult questions so we always go over there with members hahaha. Thats always a fun situation when your teaching someone who is really really smart and comes up with some questions and your like "how on earth would we know that" hahaha. Also we went on exchanges with a member and did some home teaching and we went to this Cambodean family. The grandpa converted many years ago and he can speak a little bit of english but he does not really understand it. Well his grandsons were home so we took the oppurtunity to teach them. It went pretty well and we set up a return appoinment for Saturday but on Saturday they totally dropped us. Then we had transfer meetings.  That was insanse. 25 missionaries were coming to our mission and then they added 13 more visa waiters so 38 missionaries came in!!!! It was insane. The training meeting was so dang long. Then the making transfer calls took for ever as well. But my new companion is Elder Brooks from, drum roll, Pleasent Grove, Utah (who would have guessed?), We get along really well. He is actually a visa waiter as well. His call is for Melbourne Australia. So we have no idea how long he will be here for. Im staying in the same area with the car. Friday night was an interesting experience. First we were checking up on former investigators and we had this really hard lesson with this extremly hard hearted Athiest. It was elder Brooks first lesson so it was actually really funny to me. He just sat there and didnt say anything because the guy was saying some pretty strong things. But after I had this feeling that we needed to go see this one member in our ward and right as we were about to get to his house he called and asked if we could come over. He was pretty shocked when we were like "We are actually right around the corner". When we got there we he went on to tell us that he had been let go from his job and his wife was out of town and he was showing us some missionary book thing for his son who is also serving (we could tell he needed company and to be comforted) so we offered to give him a blessing. It was just a nice experience and is really cool as missionaries when people are able to count on you for comfort. We also had breakfast with him this morning and it was pretty fun. Everything else is going good. The humidity is here though!!!!! It was 95 on Saturday and Elder Brooks was dying hahaha.

 

Love

 

Elder Powell