Man, I have made a change!!!

Hi Mom,
This week was decent. We were able to teach Scott with a Jewish Convert named Brother Cohn. It was a good lesson because Brother Cohn practically has the Old Testament memorized hahaha. Scott tried to say
some stuff that was out there but Brother Cohn kept it under control.

We had received a referral from Salt Lake saying that a lady went to the DC Temple Visitor Center and
wanted a visit. Usually all the referrals we get are bogus but this one was legit! We only had time to stop by and introduce ourselves and set up a return appointment. They were really excited to meet us and we prayed with them before we left. They unfortunately went out of town the next and are going to be gone until this Sunday. But we have an appointment with them for Sunday night so it should be awesome. They are a family of 5!

One of the funniest things ever happened this week. We were doing service for Ray. He had bought a
new weed eater and Elder Timmons put it together and we went into his backyard to cut some grass so we could get to the spot where Ray wanted us to work. Well apparently there was a Bee Hive there and we disrupted them. They are the big black bumble bees that nest in the ground. Last year I did the same thing at Mrs. Kelsey's out in Culpeper and got stung by one hahaha. But basically after we pissed the hive off we then spent the whole time killing bees. Ray kept giving us fly swatters and spray and it was just so dang
funny. Then Ray went in to kill some and one flew onto his lip and I kid you not he took off so fast. I have never seen a 71 year old man move so quick. After that whole fiasco he took us to lunch and we went to get more bee killer spray and he was like "Hey I have a new Credit card get what ever you want" so he bought us our groceries hahaha. He was loving it. So that was a really fun day.

We found a new little family!! They were a referral from a recent convert. It is a man named Frank and
his Daughter Stephanie. They just moved here from Chicago (go Bears!!). The mom is still in Chicago until they sell their house. But they were really open and we had a great lesson with them.

We had a 7 hour move that was brutal. After the wife of the family gave me all sorts of trash for being from California and wanting to stay there after my mission. This was the same lady that pulled out some book
that some Mormon wrote and said he had a near death experience and saw all these prophecies and showed me how he said that California was going to break off into little pieces due to all these Earthquakes. Well she took that as doctrine and it was so annoying. Learn from this lady. That indeed was a trial of patience. I held my tongue and did not say anything mean hahaha I have made a change!!!!!

That was our week nice and slow hahaha. But we are hopefully going to see that family on Sunday and
have some other good news!!!

Love you!
Elder Powell