I hope you all had a great week! Anything crazy happen?
It was another great week here in Virginia. Lots of rain this week! So much rain!!!! It was flooding in some areas pretty bad! I'll try to send a video of it. It was pretty nuts!
Nothing too crazy happened. Marco's baptismal date got moved back a couple weeks because he's still struggling with word of wisdom stuff. Which is no biggy. He still wants to baptized really bad!
Nevin didn't come to church and she canceled our appointment... :( Next week though!
Earl is doing pretty good. He is still crazy depressed! But we had dinner with him at a his "ministering brother's" home last night, which was good! (Lol they need to come up with a better name for that)
We met with Jeeun again this week. (The referral from the lady in Eagle Mountain) We had a great lesson on the Restoration. He talked a ton about the Book of Mormon! She had some questions about it, so we talked quite a bit about it. Then we commited her to read it and pray about it. She said she would! We're meeting with her again this Saturday, so hopefully it goes well!
Marianna had her baby!!! Irina Jane! We haven't met with her since cause she had to have a c-section and she was in the hospital till last night. But her and baby are doing good! We had a good discussion with Marianna, her parents, and Gisella on Monday. Gisella is preparing to get her patriarchal blessing, so that came up. We also talked bout the blessing Marianna got from a priest in our ward last week and how great of an experience it was! Her parents were pretty intrigued by the discussion. We're gonna have dinner with them and Marianna soon. Gisella and Marianna want them to be baptized pretty bad!! 
We had exchanged this week! I went with Elder Larsen to the Spanish area again! We ran into a guy we talked to the first time a couple months ago! He was less drunk this time It was a good time though! A really nice guy paid for our dinner that night at Cafe Rio. We asked what ward he was in and he was like, "Oh, I'm actually Methodist. But I figure you guys are on a prety tight budget." He was pretty sweet! #blessings
We also had interviews with President Caplin this week! Sister Caplin is amazing! She's hilarious and has a crazy amount of energy!! It's great! The interview went good too! President is so great!! He gave me tons of advice and told me he wanted Elder Poulsen and I to set some pretty high goals and make them! He said we'd be together for a while so we had time! So that's what we did!! We made a super high goal for this area, and for the mission! 13 Baptisms in our time together!!!!! (Hence the title 
) We've got 1 already! And we've got names for all 12 of the others! Now we just gotta work our butts off! It's totally doable! President told us to "Give it everything and expect a miracle!"
Other cool experiences this week. A older couple in our ward, the Cannon's (Brother Cannon is George Q. Cannons grandson. He's google-able! Mark W. Cannon) called us yesterday and asked if we could help give Sister Cannon a blessing cause she was pretty sick. So we went over after church and it ended up being an hour long visit becuase they wanted to talk about our investigators! It was good though. I gave her the blessing, which is funny because I gave one to Brother Cannon last week when he was sick. And then last night we visited Marco and gave him a blessing because he was super stressed and he wanted extra help to stop smoking. The priesthood is so great!! Participating in blessings and using the priesthood to bless God's children is literally the best!!!
I hope you all have a good week! I love you and pray for you all the time! Keep being the best ever!
Love, Elder Duke
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