Hello
Everybody,
How are you all doing?
I am doing great. Just enjoying the heat, getting super tan and skinny. Loving
life and we are getting the ball rolling in this area where I am at. It’s hard
because this branch is full of Sunday members, but we are trying to bring some
mission spirit in this area so that everyone starts working and getting referrals.
We had some successes in this week with some referrals, but they came from less
active members.
Something cool
happened with a less active member this past week. His name is Gregorio and we
visited him on Wednesday. He is an ex-missionary, not married yet, is like 26
years old, and we went to his house and he was there. And we invited him to the
church to chat and we went. He said that he felt super special and wanted to
continue. He was pumped and now he is working with us and he wants to be our branch
mission leader because we don´t have one right now. So I am pumped because he
wants to work and he has some pretty killer ideas that can help us a ton to
have some more success here. We are at a slow climb but now some pieces are
coming together and we are getting the things going.
This past week we had
a zone conference and it was pretty special. There was a lot of information
shared that helped us a ton to get some things going. We watched the videos on
LDS.org close to the missionary work and how to do the work more efficiently.
Well the videos were super cool, if we had members thinking the same way as
those members and doing the same things that they do. We have got work to do
and we have a bunch of projects thought of:
1) A HUGE map: We went
to this print shop and ordered a map of our area about 5´x6´ and it’s huge! And
we are going to put with tacks and banners all the members--active, inactive,
and investigators. And we are going to use it to plan our days and to present
in Branch counsel to show where the presidents of every organization can go to
save and help the inactives come to church so that we can have bazillion
members at church now.
2) An X missionary
activity: There are sooo many inactive x missionaries! So we are going to do a
conference-barbecue, invite our mission president to come talk at the
conference, and all the x missionaries are going to present photos and stuff of
their mission. So it should be pretty cool how that all turns out. I am stoked
for it; it will be on August 30.
This week rained for 2
days. Well it was pretty crappy what happened. Because in the morning it was
super hot and sunny. Oh the sun was horrible. And then at like 4 these huge
clouds just came and poured. We were soaked in the rain because we were really far
away and where we were there are no trees or anything. So just getting wet,
pretty fun. All these kids just playing in the streets getting soaked, taking a
bath, and everyone was looking at us like they are crazy... haha. But it was
fun.
Today is cloudy and
hot, maybe it will rain? We cleaned the whole house, and now it’s a clean,
clean house. Thanks mommies for teaching me some cleaning skills, they come in
handy. Especially when there is a house full of spiders and cockroaches! It’s a
war against those things, but little by little we are winning. We were
remodeling the house quite a bit; we were under construction with the map and
the new planning desk that we put up.
Well I love you all,
21 months completed! Time is flying soooooo fast!! I am now kind of freaking
out because there are only 3 months left; I have to do more exercises so that I
don’t get off the plane skinnier than a stick and everyone freaking out. Haha
No don’t worry I am eating. I love you all and may God bless you. Go to church,
it helps and saves your life. :)
Elder Justin Powell
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