Week 34: Falls Church, VA and every other city in the mission: "8 months down"

Joshua Duke	1:49 PM (35 minutes ago)
to me, Elaine, Jordan, Emily, Kaili, Sarah, Lauren, Lizzy, Mikaila

Heyyo!!

How is everyone!?

This week was another hard one! We haven't found anyone new to teach, but we're trying to work more with the members and make it happen!!

Signing is coming along pretty well! I'm progressing little by little, but every Sunday, I notice that I understand more and more!

Story of the week: Elder Pauley and I were in Arlington street contacting, and it started to pour rain!!! So everyone fled the streets to get inside, and we are just out walking trying to talk to the few people who are still braving the rain. As we were walking, I realised thst my shoes had a hole in the bottom! So my right foot got soaked and my shoe is pretty much ruined... oh well... Life of a missionary 

Saturday we went to a street fair in Woodbridge (Hoodbridge) to look for deaf people. We didn't find anyone, but we decided to stay and eat dinner there and try to talk to some people. We got some pretty sweet mugs from a soda truck, and talked to a really weird old man! 

Sorry it's kinda short this week... I'm super stoked for General Conference though!! I've been getting so pumped over the last month!! It's gonna be a good one, for sure!!

Also, I've been thinking about charity a lot lately... What it is, what it does for us, etc... Charity isn't just a Christ-like love for people. It's also a love for Christ! And a stronger love for Christ, creates a stronger love for others in our lives!

Update that I found out about Marco!! He had a court case that was not looking good and was giving him a lot of stress. So Elder Poulsen and his companion promised him that if he read and prayed about the Book of Mormon, then he would feel better about, and undersand, his hearing the next day. So they called after the hearing, and Marco was like, "THE MORMON BOOK DOES MIRACLES!! THE MORMON BOOK DOES MIRACLES!!" His case got dismissed, and he is doing a lot better!! Hopefully baptism comes soon!!! 

Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderfully fantastic week!! Love you!!!!

-Elder Duke

Pics

Sweet sign in Manassas that we found!

Out in the rain... It's rained constantly for the past like 3 months... It's finally breaking up though!