Ipho for you!

Hey Mom,

This week was really good. But it was raining all week! It was insane and really annoying. We had a lesson
with all of the 3 people that we have on date for Baptism. The first one was a 9 year old girl named Alexis. She is getting Baptized this weekend. She has been taking the lessons for about a month or 2. She has been coming to church with her mom who is a member and has been doing her reading and praying. So that is really good. We then had a lesson with Nicole. Her Boyfriend is a less active member. She has been taking the lessons for like a month. We out her on date for the 16th of November last week but this week she said she wants it moved up hahaha. She has been doing her reading and praying and is really prepared. The problem is though her and her boyfriend go home after sacrament meeting every week. They never stay for all 3 hours! That is one thing we are really trying to focus on with her. We also had a lesson with another girl that is on date for November 9th. Her name is Victoria. She has been taking the lessons for about a year. Her mom is a strong Buddhist and would not giver her permission but told her she had to wait till she was 18. Well then last week she just told she could be baptized when ever she wanted, so she is all good for November 9th.

We had a really long missionary meeting on Thursday that was all about new things that President Riggs wanted to implement. But part of the discussion was Halloween. Every year they do the same thing. We get to watch approved G or PG movies. So this year we are watching Monsters University and Despicable Me 2. That should be fun. We are going to get together as a Zone that night and do a Pot-Luck as well so that is going to be fun. The little Texan roommate we have is a crazy little ball of energy. He loves to pull pranks, cook, and go to thrift stores. We went yesterday and we found 5 of these brand new Varsity Tennis team jackets. They are so funny because on the Back are these random names. They are Dooley, Lu, Peck, Levitt, and Coleman. We thought it was way funny so we bought them (only $3.95) and took pictures so that is one of the ones that I am sending this week. The other picture is a of a shirt that a man gave me. We were trying to get in touch with this new family that moved into the ward and one of their neighbors were outside and we went over to talk with him. He is from Vietnam and I was joking with him and asked if he wanted to make us some Pho which is a noodle/ meat soup they eat all the time in Vietnam. They have a million Pho restaurants here and we love to go get it. Anyways he told us to wait right there and he went into his house and came out with a shirt that says "Ipho" its designed like an Iphone. It was way funny so that is the other picture. Other than that not too much happened this week. We are really trying to find new people to teach because we don't want to start from scratch when the others are baptized. But we should be finding on a weekly basis anyways. Its nice weather this week so that is awesome. Not much else to report on!

Love you!!!!!
Elder Powell