Miracles CAN and WILL happen!

Hey Mom!!!!

Its that time of the year again so that means I'm breaking out the Christmas tie and wearing it from December 1st until Christmas hahaha. This week was pretty good. We had a SUPER long thanksgiving.....we had 5 meals. It was insane. So this is how it broke down. We went to this families house and had pie for breakfast. It is a tradition that they have and they invited people from the ward so a lot were there. That was a good start. Then we went out to eat lunch with another family. The took us to a restaurant named Bob Evans and we had a turkey dinner for lunch. The family is a less active lady and her non member Husband that we do service for. They are a great couple and the Husband is hysterical. But that was tons of fun. Then like 3 hours after that we went to Victoria's and had a Turducken dinner. Holy cow let me just say that was delicious! Its a Chicken, stuffed in a Duck, stuffed in a Turkey. It was so dang good. That was a huge meal. Then after we went and had dinner at Hanna's. Her mom was having another house party for her family and we had some more Thai food. It was the order I would of picked to have the Thai food as the 4th meal but I am thankful for it! That was a lot of fun. We always meet new people when we are there and they are all really nice. After that we went over to Alexis' house. The 9 year old that was baptized. That was really fun. Her family is so awesome and they all love the missionaries. They are all from Guatemala so we had some spicy stuffing hahaha. But after it was all said and done Elder Fink and I went home and crashed. We didnt move for like 30 minutes and once we were done with planning we went straight to bed hahaha. But it was a great day.

On Tuesday I had my last appointment with my GI. That was a good visit. But the problem was the traffic on the way back. Traffic is terrible in Northern Virginia hahaha. It took us 2 1/2 hours to travel 28 miles. But anyways, that night we had a lesson with Brian and Brandelyne. We didn't have much time but it was a great lesson. We went over the Law of Chastity and the Word of Wisdom. He accepted them and went on to explain how they had already been living these things and are talking about what will need to happen before they are married on the 1st. Brandelyne is a member and she has been making the necessary changes and so has Brian and they are so prepared for him to be baptized and for them to be married! Its going to be great!

On Friday we met the Richardsons at Cafe Rio. It was so great to see them. Kegan is doing so well. He was officially ordained an elder and he is almost done with his mission papers!! He has done all the interviews and he is just finishing his medical stuff. They are trying to get it all done so he can go through the temple in January. That would be like the coolest thing if I was here for that. 

Really other than that not that much happened because a lot of people were either out of town or were sick this week. But we are working really hard right now. Our Bishop set a goal of 6 more baptism for the end of the year and we have had 2 from September to January. So we are really trying to work hard and we have the faith the miracles can and will happen!    

Love Elder Powell!!!

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