Jared Howell Mission

Hey Everyone, So the main highlight of the week was the doctor's office on Thursday. We went to see if they could finally figure out what was wrong with his foot, and they did. Elder Dixon is a mutant. He has an extra bone in his ankle that's inflamed, which is what's been causing him all this pain. So they stuck him on anti-inflammatories and told him to rest, so we've been doing a lot of resting since then. However, we've still been able to get out and work for a little bit each day. In fact, on Thursday, we ended up having a really cool lesson with a referral we received from the Jones Falls sisters a few months ago that asked us to wait until semester ended. Well it ended so we called her, and she said she was still interested in meeting with us. So we met at a Panera Bread, and her first question was, "Do you really believe we can become gods?" It ended up not being a bash, which we were thankful for, she was just an honest seeker for truth with a

Hey everyone, We had exchanges this week which means that Elder Cannon and I got to take in BYSA together. The unique thing about this exchange was that I go home next transfer, and he goes home this transfer, so a lot of our side conversations were talks about college and classes and (on his part) weddings. But it was a really fun exchange.  On Wednesday we walked all over West Baltimore, and I mean all over. I think I've forgotten to mention, but Elder Dixon has been in a boot all transfer, pictured below. He can still walk fine but he kept falling off curbs in Frederick and twisting it, so it started really hurting. When he went to the doctor, the doc didn't know what was wrong, only that it wasn't broken, so he stuck him in a boot and said to come back in two weeks. When we went back a little over a week ago, it wasn't any better or worse, so they had him get an MRI, and he has another appointment this week so I guess we'll see what happens. But that boo

Hey everyone, So by far the most entertaining thing that happened was this guy we ran into and ended up getting stuck on his porch for an hour, talking to him. He told us about how the Earth isn't round, that it's standing in four pillars, and that it is stationary and everything spins around it, but then denied that the Earth is the center of the universe. (we asked, twice...) Then he told us that Christ never existed, but that he was black. He also talked about how you can't deny that God exists, but he thinks that faith and prayer are useless. It was so weird and reminded me of Korihor. One of his biggest hold backs was his misunderstanding of the use of Christ's title as The Great Mediator. He saw it as if we were saying that Heavenly Father didn't have the power, so Christ had to perform the Atonement in order to make up for that difference, as opposed to us being the imperfect ones that needed the Atonement in order to make it back to Heavenly Father.

Hey Everyone, So the funniest thing by far that happened this week was a conversation Elder Dixon and I had yesterday while it was raining: D: Look, Elder Howell it really, truly is the Road to El Dorado.  H: you drank from the puddle didn't you.  D: oh, come on.  H: I'm not coming on. I wouldn't set foot in that city for a 1 million dollars.  D: how about a 100 million dollars.  H: awwroh, what did you say?  D: oh you know pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters. You walk around and can just pick them off the street. But you dont want that, so let's get back into the car and go back to our apartment. After all it's worked so well last time.  H: wait, wait, wait. New plan, we follow the street, we pick up the change, and then we go back to our aparment.  D: And buy our aparment. I hope you understood that reference, (The Road to El Dorado). Other than that, not a whole lot happened, we walked a lot, we got dropped by three or four of the people we were teachin