Hey MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok so this week was huge, this email is going to be really long. This is how it started. Pday was awesome. Like 12 of us elders all got together at the Haymarket apartment and played some games. After that we all went to Zone Sports and played some kickball. Then not that much happened until Thursday night. We went on Splits and a recent convert came out with me. We checked up on a potential investigator. Her name is Elizabeth. She was home and let us in. It turns out her Ex Husband is a Mormon (not practicing). She is from Peru and went to church with her friends out there and knows a lot about the church. She is Catholic and is really into her religion but she is allowing us to come back and teach
her. That was an answer to our prayers. We have been trying to find people for so long!!!
Then I received some really great news. Remember Kegan and the Richardson's? Well Sister
Richardson's step daughter Jordan is not a member of the church because her husband converted and they did not have full rights of Jordan so she could not join. BUT they just got full custody and on September 28th she is being baptized and they asked me to give a talk so I will be going to that baptism and will have pics in a couple of weeks! It is soooo awesome! Sister Richardson is way excited and Elder Cannon is giving a talk as well and will be there also! I way excited for that!
Now comes the longest part of the email. THE NATS GAME! So we were taking the metro in to D.C. because it takes you right to the stadium. So we are in our huge group of Elders and we are taking one
metro and then hoping on another to get to the stadium. Well when we went to go switch it was chaos. Tons of People were flying in and out and so we hopped and as the doors shut I turn and look and everyone except one other Elder and I were not on the metro. We got on the wrong one hahahaha. They were all yelling and everyone in the metro was laughing. It was pretty funny. When I realized what happened all I could do was look at the group, smile, and wave hahaha. As soon as we took off I tried getting a phone
(both of us didn't have one) and the Elder I was with is on his second transfer so his greenie fire kicks in and he starts trying to teach a lesson to people on the Metro while I'm trying to borrow a phone. It all worked
out. The first stop we went to we hopped on the right metro and met everyone at the park in like 10 mins. Our whole group was laughing so hard when we met up. It was pretty funny. Then the game. Man what a game it was! The Nats destroyed the Phillies 6-1. I was able to see like all my friends from the mission and get pics with them. Something cool about the Stadium is the Capitol is right to its West end and you can see it from part of the Stadium. They put the DC north missionaries on the Jumbo tron twice and they were dancing and jumping around so after the game people were coming up to us and were like, Man you guys are famous! During the game out of no where some one behind me put their hand on my back and I turned
and it was brother Nieman! Him and his son Brandon came to the game and were looking for us! Elder Cannon (my comp for 3 weeks in Fairfax) was with me so we took a picture with the Niemans. That was awesome.
Then after the game one of the Elders from our group was trying to get some stuff from the Team Store and he was taking forever. Finally we were leaving the park and you will never guess what happened
next. So this white Mercedes pulls and says "whats up missionaries". The person driving was none other than Bryce Harper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The elder that was taking for ever asked him to come take pictures with us and he did!!!!!!!!!! He gets out of his car and is like "Whats up guys lets take some pictures". COOLEST MOMENT EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He took pictures with all the companionships! We all had him sign our white handbooks and then I also had him sign my ticket. Holy cow like seriously we are all still amazed that that actually happened. He is so nice and he is massive too. Just a solid person of pure muscle. Man it was so awesome. We have told some people and Pres wants us to email him the pics. It was priceless!
On Saturday as we were driving around, we were by a storage unit and someone was towing a Batmobile!
So we drove by it and I got some pictures. That was fun. Then on Sunday we had a "Why I Believe" Fireside and the speaker was Senator Orrin Hatch. He gave a great talk. We sang in the Choir for it. After I got to shake his hand. That was fun as well. Pretty much that was my week. It was insane!!!!!
Love Elder Powell!!
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