We are going to a Washington Nationals Game!!!

Hey
Mom, This week was really up and down. But first things first. Pres Riggs got the approval
and we are going as a Mission to a Washington Nationals game on September 13th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to the serious stuff, this week started off really slow. We had a lot of cancelations and
were constantly trying to figure out what to do and things like that. Then we had a great exchange with the High Priest Group leader in our ward. We had a great lesson with a referral from someone in our ward. Her name is Silvia and her Daughter is Nicole. They are from Bolivia. Nicole and a younger girl from our ward play soccer together. Well the member is freaking awesome little missionary. They are both 9. This is how Mia, the member did her part as a ward missionary! She started off by talking to her about church and if she went to a church. Then she started bringing a "Friend" magazine to school to read and showed it to Nicole and got her interested in it. Well Nicole really liked it and took one home and was showing it to her mom and
they started reading it together. Then Mia and her family had Silvia and Nicole over for dinner and they also had us there. We talked a lot about religion and Silvia really opened up. She said that she doesn't really open up like that with people she doesn't know but she felt there was something different about us. She accepted a return appointment and we stopped by on Wednesday to teach her with the HP group leader, Brother Staton. He served his mission in Rosario Argentina so he knew Spanish. He had to translate some parts of the lesson but it went great. On Sunday he went up to bear his testimony and was just talking about how
being able to be apart of a lesson again meant so much to him. His son, Cori, also comes out with us to teach with us. He is a priest. Then we had a lesson with Melissa that went pretty well but after her and her family who are not members ganged up on Douglas who is a member and was giving him all this crap about the church so we are on hold with Melissa. Scott was not available this week but we are hoping to have a lesson with him and with Brother Cohn who is a Jewish Convert. Brother Cohn is a really smart man and
especially in the Old Testament so we are hoping that he will be able to help. We did our service for Ray and he took us out to lunch and we had a great time with him. He is so funny and always has some great jokes. We also were able to find a new investigator this week when we were checking up on a Less Active member. A man who is not the member answers the door so of course we just asked if we would give us time to teach him about Jesus Christ. So he did. His name is Albarr Ali. He is from LA. He has had a really hard life with addictions to different things, but is doing a lot better now. We met with him twice and it was really good. He is really open and is really humble. We are continuing to try and find!!!!!!!!!! Elder Timmons and I are doing really well together. Other than that it was an average week. The weather was really nice this week but is getting hotter (yay).

Love Elder Powell