Keep On Keeping On

Hey everyone, here is your weekly update on the craziness of Minnesota!

So lets see, this week was kind of just another week of missionary work and nothing too crazy happened.  I got to try menudo at a members house this week, and man that was interesting.  That is cow stomach for those who don't know.  And the texture is kind of like you are eating some weird squishy something, it wasn't the worst thing in the world, but if put up to pretty much any other kind of meat, the other meat is just gonna come out on top every time. We also have been on bikes, and so we have gone miles and miles and I think it is definitely because we have started biking that the weather here has jumped straight to winter, so that is an adventure!

We have also been working with a lot of less active families and are having a huge amount of success as we work with those families in seeing them come back to church, so that is way cool, we are doing something right there at least. 

We are all pumped about conference this week.  I am worried on how much I'll be able to understand in Spanish, so we will see how that goes. 

So me and my companion did a lot of finding this week so we could try and find some more people to teach and hopefully we could find some people with interest.  We went day by day without an open door and no one listened to us, so that was a trial.  After a whole week of this it was getting pretty discouraging, going a whole week without being able to do anything.  And then finally it came down to the last hour of proselyting we have in a week and we saw all of our success, and that was amazing.  We hit all our weekly goals in one hour in one apartment.  And the door to the apartment opened for us, which was a miracle and a blessing, so after all our work and enduring we were able to see the blessings that come from it in the end.  So remember that as you are going about day by day and no matter how hard the times are, keep enduring.  Because I promise the Lord will bless your efforts in the end, but it will be after the trial of your faith that you will see the blessings pour in.  So this week just remember to keep on enduring the end, and do it happily, and I promise the Lord will do His part, because He loves His children.

Well Talk to everyone next week with hopefully some more interesting stories for you all!

-Elder Pickering

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