Training again and opening up a new area!!

Hey Mom!!!
 This week was way interesting.Here is the big news........I'm training again and opening up a new area!!! It caught me way off guard. I was just training Elder Timmons and we totally thought I was staying to finish train him and then we got the call and we were both really shocked. So this is #4 . His name is Elder Westover and he is from Glendale Arizona so naturally we get along great because he isn't from Utah. The funny thing is, he turned 18 last month! It is so weird. He seems so young. But he is really energetic and we are getting along great. There were 42 missionaries that came into the mission on Wednesday!!!!!!! They opened up 13 new areas, and its cool because my Trainer Elder Holfeltz is training again and is our District Leader, and the first kid I trained Elder Cannon is training as well.

We are opening up the Centreville 2nd ward. They had a set of Sisters and now they us as well. So
I am know in the same Zone as Haymarket but that was on the West side and I am now on the East Side. But I am still on the West side of the mission. That's where I have served my whole mission was on the west side. My last area was the closest to DC and it was in the Center of the mission. But if you remember the email you got during Christmas where It had the Picture of the Stake President and his wife, Pres Riggs and then Elder McAbee and I. We are know in the Stake Presidents ward. He is a great man. But he was released like 3 months ago, so he isn't the stake Pres. But anyways, ya I'm so excited to be back in the Centreville stake! We go to church where we have transfer meetings and other meetings so it's cool to attend church at that building.

The ward is awesome. All the leadership and the whole ward is excited to have Elders and are really into missionary work. We have been going around and introducing ourselves and thanking the different members for all the things they donated to our apartment. The ward was sent a letter from the mission and was in charge of getting our whole apartment furnished. They did a great job and its an awesome apartment.

We are starting from Scratch on the work, but the sisters had a referral for us and we went and taught
him. He is a man from Vietnam. His name is Tommy Phan. He grew up Buddhist. He really wants to learn a lot more about Christianity and about Jesus Christ. He seemed really golden until the end when he was like "Ill call you when I finish reading the Book of Mormon" and we were like ".....uh we were actually wanting me more often then that",it was pretty funny. But we are doing a lot of finding right now and trying to get to know the members.  We are really excited to work!!
 
Love Elder Powell