It was a big week for Elder Pickering with a lot of changes coming. I am thankful that the Mission President and the Lord trust him enough to give him these opportunities for growth and to further the work. He wrote one letter to the whole family this week and I am going to share a few parts of it since it contained a little more detailed information.
Hey family!
So I am gonna do my emails just all mashed up here together for you guys this week so please don't hate me for that, I just want to be able to go enjoy my mission Halloween as much as I can. This week has been good here. We were able to get in with M this week, and he doesn't want the new job :/ but we just challenged him to then come to church no matter how tired, because that is the most important matter, and he said he will come, so hopefully he does! He has a great spirit, I just honestly believe that this job is holding him back from all that he could grow, its hard. But if he comes to church now, he will progress very fast!
We also taught A and J like you are gonna see in my email, and they are awesome. I feel like they have both been very prepared and always like lead into our next lesson. Like they brought up tithing and fasting and said that they believe in it and want to do it here, so we were able to give them a lesson on that and they totally agreed and took it soooo well. The really only hard part now, is gonna be the law of chastity, which they lead into in our last lesson saying that they might have an issue with that. But A said she would talk with her partner and talk about marriage! And J said she'll explain her situation next time. They are both from El Salvador, so my guess is J's "husband" is still somewhere there or something. So we are gonna keep working hard with them, and I believe we can help them make the necessary changes to make baptism and this church an option.
So transfers are tomorrow, and I will be with someone named Elder Terry, so I'm sure within an hour or two you'll know all about him XD, but I'm excited, he has been out the same amount of time as me, so both of our Spanish will be very tested, and improve. It'll be hard, but a lot of fun taking over the area and trying new things. And I am also now going to be the district leader here, and that should be an adventure. The people in my district are awesome though, so they wont make my life harder than it has to be I am sure. Have a great Halloween and amazing week, I love you guys!!
Group Email:
Hey everybody!
So this isn't going to be as long of an email because like all of you, I would like to have my Halloween and enjoy it! So this week here has been a good one. We had a Halloween/fall festival thing with our ward and at our church, and it was a big success! There were lots of kids and lots of different people that showed up for it. Even we dressed up and I'll be sure to include pictures for you all to enjoy. So we also invited our person we are teaching, A, and the person she lives with we are also teaching. They didn't end up showing up, and then also not to church, so we were kinda sad because they had been doing so well. Then upon visiting them it turns out where they are from, the equivalent of Halloween is like demonic stuff and worshipping. So basically they told us they thought we did that and so that's why they didn't come. But we got it all cleared up, and had a good laugh explaining it is just a bunch of kids that dress up all cute and that's it.
The next crazy thing is that me and my companions bike tires got staples in them this week, so we both got the opportunity to do some patching and whatnot, that sure was lame. So please, when you just don't know what to do with all your staples, don't dump them on the streets, there are poor Spanish missionaries like us, Haha.
Well that's the big interesting things that happened this week, and it will be a short week until next p-day, so hopefully you can all survive on just hearing those stories this week. This week I will be getting a new companion and becoming district leader, so I am excited to grow through that and serve In whatever way I can. Keep on keeping on everyone, see ya next week!
Elder Pickering
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