Hello family!

It sounds like ya'll had a great week! I'm happy to hear Hadley is stepping it up in the athletics! That is so awesome that you guys get to all go to Youth Conference this year up in Kirtland. Man I absolutely LOVED that youth conference so much. The Spirit is really strong up there. Hadley you are way lucky to be going there for your first youth conference!

So Elder Hernandez and I just got done fishing up in Mantua(town of 700 people). This is our second time going and today I caught a good sized bass. Last time I caught about an 18 inch rainbow trout haha. We go with this awesome guy named K. B. who lives up in the sticks in Mantua and he's a less active guy who we are trying to help come back to church. I'm learning a ton about fishing and hunting and big trucks because that's what a lot of the people up here like to talk about so I'm learning as much as I can about it. haha. The other day we were up in Mantua, and we were walking down this dirt road by this house and Elder Hernandez saw a rooster in this guys yard and started just chasing it around jokingly. All of a sudden though these two gigantic bull dogs started chasing after him and he barely got away before the dogs hit their electric fence - haha! It was pretty epic. We found out later that the people who lived in the house are pretty anti-mormon and so we are pretty sure they sicked the dogs on us. Haha!

On Sunday we also had the chance to speak in Mantua for sacrament meeting. I haven't spoken in church for about 2 months so the butterflies came back a little bit before I spoke. Especially because I accidentally left about half my talk at home and realized it when we were on the stand in sacrament meeting. haha. Kind of scary but The Lord took care of me and I realized that the part I left at home wasn't something the ward really needed to hear. But anyways, things are still going great up here in Brigham City! Sunday in church we also taught in a primary where Laura Theuson's mom was a teacher, haha.

This Saturday J.G. is going to be baptized which Elder Hernandez and I are super excited about! Also, there is a kid we are teaching whose girlfriend is a member. Last week in our first lesson with him we committed him to be baptized on the 6th and he accepted! He came to church on Sunday and this lady that teaches at his high school came up to Elder H and I, and she was like "How did you get that kid to church! He is probably one of the worst kids at our school, always in to drugs and stuff." That made me think alot. A lot of the time, the Lord's elect and prepared are not the people who we think are prepared to receive the Gospel. People who do drugs, and have tattoos and have children out of wedlock could be just as much elect or prepared as someone who goes to church every Sunday. Only The Lord knows, and He is preparing people all the time. Christ did not dwell with the so called "religious leaders" of His day, but with the publicans and the sinners. And just as much as this lady thought this young man wasn't someone who would receive the Gospel, he is! We never know when the Spirit will touch someone's heart and change them! Anyway, I have to get going! But Thanks again for everything and for all the support, I love you all! Have a great week! Love, Elder Powers