Week 50

Hello Family!! Wow what a week it has been!!

We have had transfers this last week and me and Elder Harris stayed together. Which was good! But we have SO many changes in the district and zone it's crazy! Big changes too! Its really good tho and we're excited!

Anyways.. Funny/Nasty story real quick. So this week a new set of missionaries got put into Ankeny! So we called the ward members to see if they had any old furniture for the new apartment! This one less active lady said that she had a couch in her basement that we could have. We went over there to get the couch and started to carry it up the stairs and the next thing i knew i was covered from head to toe in cat hair!!! It was all up in my face and mouth and hair and i almost puked!! We got it up the stairs and we started to try and get as much off as we could and it was a never ending cat hair battle. I have never seen so much cat hair. It turns out that she had like 4 cats living in her basement and they hadn't been out of the basement in years.. Crazy.. Haha just thought i'd let you know... Haha

Our investigator is doing so awesome!! She is loving the church and is very excited to be baptized on Saturday. She has it all planned out and wants it to be the perfect day! We have had so many spiritual lessons with her this last week and she's super excited and so are we! After church yesterday she was like "i need to bring everyone i know here!! This is the best!!" Hahha I love the excitement that comes from finding the truth in your life! its going to be a good week! Busy, but good!

Also a way cool thing happened the other day! We were eating at a Fazoli's because someone had given us a gift card there, and this older lady walked in and ordered her food and sat down in the booth behind us. We had the feeling to go talk to her and so before we left we went to go talk to her and it turned out that she was deaf! Elder Harris took some sign language in High School and we picked our way through a conversation and gave her the Book of Mormon and she wanted us to come back and teach her more!! Haha way cool! She gave us her address and we're going to go this week and teach her hopefully!

I'm glad you are all doing well! I had a awesome birthday week thanks to all my friends and family who sent me letters and emails and stuff! I really appreciate it! And yes Grandma Russell i got your package and thank you so much! :)

Thank you all for being so supportive! I truly do love being on my mission and i feel as tho i owe my life to the Gospel. It's truly amazing what it can do for anyone who's looking to strengthen their relationship with God, who's heart is open, and who's humble enough to do what God tells them to do! When it comes down to it, all that really matters on this earth is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how you apply it into your life.

Love Elder Russell!