Hello how is everyone?Im doing great P is doing well we were able to teach her again and she loved it. Also we were able to get her over to family home evening with a bunch of old folks in our branch so she fit right in. She's coming to church, and will be coming to FHE again she is reading her assignments and we are excited about her. We found a few more people that said theyd be coming to church but they bailed on us. You get that alot people just dont do what they say. We are having most of our success outside St.Mary's just because that's definetly the stronghold of Catholiscm but nice people for the most part. We are excited about S just in the begining stages with her we stopped by to see her last night and had a good mini lesson but she invited us over tonight and we are bringing a single guy in our branch over. Me and Elder Norton are thinking we've got to set these to up. He's 38 she's 34 and they both want to get married understandbly. So hey maybe that will facilitate her getting more excited. But me and Elder Norton will be heading up to the Kane branch this sunday for the first time they asked us to give talks and then on the 20th we are giving talks at the Ridgway branch. Some thing that comes to mind is the talk by Henry B.Eyring entitled Remember, Remember. I think the reason Ive thought about it is because I think as members we aren't as steady as we should be we are to hot and cold. If we were to keep on the top of our mind the spiritual expierences we've had we would be must likely to slip and fall. Satan wants us to forget who we are and lull us away into carnal security my challenge for all of us this week is to remeber our spiritual expierences and let those expierence propell us to more spiritual growth I love you all take care. Elder Powell

Wow time sure does fly.Its been a good week theres two cool stories. First of all we found a girl named C and she seems really humble and willing to learn. Shes 21 and is a single mom. She's overcome alot in her life we will go for our return appointment tommorow hope that goes well. Also we had a very good lesson with a lady named P. We honestly werent sure what we were going to teach her. Elder Norton found her on exchange with Elder Ang-Bejar. We taught her about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and how it not only covered her sins but her weaknesses, her pains, her trails and she had never realized that before. She seemed so happy to know that and says it will be easier to have a relationship with God knowing that he has felt everything she has felt first hand expierence. We also taught about the fall and how we will be responsible for our own sins and not by Adam and Eves choices. We told her that Gos has a plan and we need to make good choices to please him and make it back to him so we brought up baptism and she said she would be baptized when she came to know this was true. When we left her an assignment she was eager to read it and she was like if I have questions can I right it down we were like YES haha. So that was a neat expierence. But ya we have helped the members alot this past week. One of the members had an emergency had to get the hay cut, bailed and transported before the rain come in because the hay cannot be wet. Well we helped them from 6 to 10. My goodness im sore I was running from bail to bail throwing it up, I sweat like crazy it was like 90 degrees with humidity and I weas wearing Jeans but that night I didnt get to bed till like 12. Haha we dont normally do that but they needed it done. Our mini zone conference meeting went well I had a good talk with President Summerhays for like 30 minutes haha Elder Norton only got to talk to him for like three minutes. But ya we had to do a role play in front of the Zone a mock teaching situation and that was pretty fun. But im doing well we had a great week we will keep working hard and trying to find God's children. I love you all.Take Care

Hello greetings from St. Mary's!!!!This past week was good we spent a good amount of time meeting the Ridgway Branch members. Few in numbers but they seem strong. Some really neat people in the branch including a black family of 10. So haha they make up a big part of the branch. But this branch is really into missionary work. They have this program called send a B.O.M on a mission. Each active member has commited to place 5 B.O.M 's each year. Well alot of them have already placed B.O.M's in their friends hands so what they are doing now. Is they prayerfully select 5 names out of the phone book and send the B.O.M and their testimony. We then as missionaries foolow up with the people it will be alot of work haha but I think it is a great start for missionary work. I mean it shouldnt replace one on one contact but they are making an effort and that's what counts. Me and Elder Norton had some pretty good success weve found 5 investigators the past week and this next week we have no obstructions in terms of schedule so we are going to try and tract for over 20 hrs. Im excited to see what we can do and try and get this place rolling. Ya from more of what Ive found out. This place has been white washed 3 straight times so it hasnt been doing well. Yes there is alot of Catholics i mean alot. They are pretty nice but dont really budge. But yesterday we had Zone Conference and man it was tense. So lets just say Pittsburgh missionaries have some obedience issues and President Summerhays was basically like anyone that isnt willing to keep the rules ill get you a plane ticket home. I realized that I myself am not perfectly obedient and need to imporve in several areas. But I guess alot of ther missionaries have facebook accounts, watch movies, play video games, and the last guy in this area got too close to a girl. Too be truthful its a clash of styles right now I feel lucky to be with Elder Norton. They were very casual missionaries that dont really take things seriously and about having a good time and our mission was about being obedient and trying our best. So it will take some time I have a feeling a few people will be sent home. I feel so bad for President Summerhays because I sure wouldnt want to do deal with a situation like this. But im doin good and I want to strive to have more meaningful prayer this week and hope you will too. Have a great week Elder Powell