Another great week in DC South! We have our new mission boundaries map. The mission looks so weird! But I'll get used to it after a while. The Richmond mission is getting  a new mission president right when the changes happen (July 1, 2013). That is going to be a stressful time for that guy! 

I gave my talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday. We were able to get a lot of less-active and part-member families to come, many non-member friends of families in the ward, and 2 of our investigators as well. They PACKED the program. So by the time it was my turn to give my talk (I was the concluding speaker), I had a bout 5 min. So I basically bore my testimony about the Resurrection and the Atonement. Now I have a talk that I can give down the road if I get called to speak about anything to do with the Atonement haha.

This last week was one of the funniest weeks of my life. Wednesday we were asked to read the Book of Mormon with the Young Women in the ward. They were reading the Book of Mormon in 2 days. When we got there, there wasn't another Adult Male in the home. So we waited for the lady's husband to get back from his errand. Now, My companion probably holds the world record for smallest bladder. He literally has to pee every 30 min, and when he has to pee... It's an emergency haha. So he had to pee, but since there was no male, he had to wait. He tells me this is very painful haha. So the Young Women come outside to read with us. I can tell Elder Norris is in pain, and i feel bad for saying this... But it made me chuckle. A couple minutes later the husband gets home and we all go inside to finish reading. Elder Norris runs straight for the bathroom and shuts the door. I walk inside and stand with my back to the bathroom, but facing the front door. All of the young women and the adult females were walking in. The last 3 Young Women were walking in with the owner of the house (all 4 female). At this point I notice that Elder Norris is peeing REALLY loud. I also noticed that the women were looking behind me with a bewildered look on their face. I turned around and saw Elder Norris peeing... the door was WIDE open. I ran over and shut the door. He had no idea it had come open. The women didn't say anything about it after, which was nice of them. We were laughing so hard when we left though!


We have church that starts at 3 and ends at 6, so we don't have time to eat dinner. We have to get straight to work. Last night we thought it would be a good idea to go tracting, since people will most likely be home due to Easter. As Elder Norris and I walked up to a door, we talked about how he hates dogs. He doesn't just hate them, he is scared of them (mainly big dogs though). As we knocked on this door, two loud deep barks came from the other side. Elder Norris took a couple steps back. A couple seconds later the door opened. A HUGE pit bull came running out, right for Elder Norris! I thought for sure he was going to get bitten. Elder Norris was able to use his foot to keep the dog back. After 30 seconds of the small attack, we got the dog back into the door. He was very scared at this point and quickly walked away and was breathing really heavy. I was still standing at the door trying to talk to the lady (it didn't help that she spoke little English). Out of nowhere, the dog comes running out the door, RIGHT PAST ME, and straight for Elder Norris for round two of the fight. At this point I was dying laughing. I knew the dog wasn't going to bight him. He was extremely scared at this point, and looked as if he was going to kick the dog in the face. We got the dog back inside, and shut the door. I was laughing so hard. He was too. Anytime we see a dog, they always go for him and not me. It's hilarious. We laughed for the rest of the night about it!

We are still laughing about both experiences!

I'm having a good time over here. Lots of laughs and miracles.

LOVE YA!

Elder Michael Litchfield