Elder Cannon and I are going with Kegan to the Temple!!!!

Hey Mom!!!!!

This week was weird. So Elder Fink had surgery on his mouth and his Gums got infected. Then as soon as I got rid of the Flu I got a cold in which I still have hahaha. But I received some great news. Remember Melissa from the Wakefield ward that I was teaching? She is being baptized this Saturday!!! The Annandale Zone leaders called and were like "guess who we just got done interviewing for Baptism" and I said "there is no way it is Scott hahaha" and they said your right its not but guess who? So I thought about it and then I remembered Melissa and sure enough she is being Baptized this Saturday!!!! So we are driving down there on Saturday. Speaking of Saturday, we received a text from the Assistants that we will be having a whole mission conference on the 25th (Saturday). Elder S. Gifford Nielson the awesome one who spoke in conference recently about the Lords game plan and said "Exclamation Point" a ton will be coming to our mission to talk with us. We are super excited about that. 

But anyways we were able to talk with Brian (the man who said he would never receive an answer from God) on Sunday. He said that he skimmed over the Book of Mormon. We taught him the Plan of Salvation. It went really well and he had a lot of really good questions. He accepted the invite to read from the Book of Mormon and gave him a specific chapter to read, so he should actually be reading not just skimming. 

We also saw Brian and Brandelyne this week. They are doing great. Unfortunately we had plans to go to the Temple to do Baptism but the quorum of the Twelve just changed the policy and said that we cannot do Baptisms and more at the Temple. That was sad. They wanted to go with me before I came home. They also said that in a year they want me to be hear for when they are sealed. Ill start saving now hahaha. But the handled it well when we talked about how we are not supposed to go with them anymore. Brian is still reading a ton and it was so funny he was telling us how he saw an advertisement for Mr. Mac and know has bought a ton of clothes from them and how much he loves the stuff hahaha. 

We had another lesson with Wanni and Tracey Hanynes. It was...decent. The problem was we had 3 things trying to go on at once. 1) We the missionaries were trying to teach 2) Brother Haynes was trying to teach 3) A member was with us and was translating certain parts but did not say what he was translating hahaha. Elder Fink and I thought it was a brutal lesson and the member thought it was awesome hahaha. We are going to talk with the member before we go into the next lesson and make sure we are all on the same page. 

An awesome member in our ward the Bean family, called us one night and said that he needed our help with service. So he picked us up and took us to the Grocery store and said that the service was for us to pick out fruits and vegetables and what ever else we needed. They wanted to make sure that we were eating enough and that we had healthy food to eat. It was  a huge tender mercy. The Bean family rocks so much!!

This is pretty cool. So we went to Washington DC yesterday and as we were leaving the Capitol we took a public tour there) we were walking back to the Metro and all of a sudden all Cop cars cut all the traffic off and cops went out into the streets and a Helicopter came flying over and then motorcycle cops came down the street and then all these armored cars and then theses Limo's with American flags drive. They were transporting the President somewhere. It was so cool. Everyone started waving at all the Limos and people were pointing and saying that they saw him. It was a pretty cool thing. Thats the second time the President has been transported when I was in DC. The first was when the 2 Airforce one Helicopters came flying over the bay by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Pretty sweet. 

The week was ok but from here on out its going to be awesome. Melissa in being Baptized, Elder Gifford Nielson is coming to the mission and then next Tuesday Elder Cannon and I are going with Kegan to the Temple!!!! It is going to be so awesome!!!!!! 

Love you!

Elder Powell