And We're Back!

Well here we are once again after another week here in Minnesota, and time is just going by, it's pretty crazy! So this week the snow did melt and we haven't had anymore thankfully! But it is still plenty cold as if there was snow, so that's not the most fun, but we make the most of it. 

So some crazy things that happened this week. Me and my companion became roofers while helping a non member. We just took out all the old stuff and put in the new, we are practically pros now. And the guy we helped sure was a funny guy. He wanted to like tie up each piece of roofing to throw it away and what not, but hey we got it done! 

So we also have started something new here that we are going to try. We have a member who works with a bunch of kids here at the school. And so once a week we are gonna have them come to the church and we will help them with homework and understanding the English with it, then after share a message with them. The first week of trying it went well, so hopefully it goes well in the future and we can see continued success from it! We just have to try new things for the work here. 

We also got to go to something that is called Presidents Fireside yesterday and it was way good.  It is where you bring a person youre teaching and people just talk about their conversion stories and it is a really cool thing every month.  This was my first chance to get to go, and thats because we were translating!  It was very hard because people tend to talk pretty fast, but I think I did pretty dang well and the spanish is definitely coming along so that is way good.

Also, the person we have been teaching that has a baptismal date in December came to church this week.  It was really great having her there and she liked it.  It was kind of crazy and the family in front of us during Sacrament Meeting was having a rough time of it so it made it a little hard to concentrate.  Hopefully, she will come again next week and learn more.

And finally we did see a miracle in our work here this week. So someone we have been working with since I had just recently gotten here who is named Manuel has had a job that just makes any normal life pretty much impossible. And he's expressed dislike and what not, so we've encouraged him to pray for help with that. And this week one of our members texted us asking if we knew anyone that wanted a job! So blessings happen. We will meet with him this week, and hopefully he has thought about this offer and has the faith to take the leap into it. And that about covers the week here for the most part. Doing our best everyday to further the work and try new things, doing whatever it takes to try and bring to past the work of God. Because now is the time, the world is crazy and there has never been a more important time to grow closer to God than now! Everyone have a great week, and I won't have my next p-day until Halloween, so talk then!!


-Elder Pickering