Missionary scoop

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