Well another week passed for Ryan and it is still cold and snowy. That hasn't changed. However, his companion situation has changed as he mentions in his email. He was excited to train another Elder as well as keep his current companion. He did say the apartment is kind of cramped but they will make do. He said that the 3 of them together can be somewhat intimidating to people, especially when knocking doors. They are often mistook for immigration and that provides a certain level of adventure.
They are continuing with teaching English classes and that is something Ryan enjoys doing.
They are also trying to work closely with the Branch and are able to practice teaching them as they go for dinner appointments.
It has been a long winter which makes missionary work difficult at times. But they are still getting out there and doing their best every day. What more could we hope for?
Group Email:
Well I have been doing some big number math here, and 3/6 is one half. So I have been training people for half of my mission so far here in Minnesota. This last week was transfers and I received another trainee. His name is Elder Hulse, and he is from Mapleton Utah. He played football with my cousin Hayden who lives over that way all through high school, and so you gotta love the small world that we live in. There have been a bunch of small little connections, so that has been fun. So we took him out finding and whatnot the first day, and we met some super crazy people and he really got to experience the Minnesota vibe that we get a lot. He was a bit discouraged after that first day of us going out and working hard and talking to everyone and not having an ounce of success at all, but I was able to share the Preach my Gospel definition of a successful missionary and keep his hopes up a bit.
Then later on in the week we went to go to some lessons in this apartment building, and naturally they both fell through, but we did some finding afterwards and had some success there. We actually got let into a house on a door approach, that is the 3rd time on my mission that that has happened, and we had a lesson with this family and they all listened and we just had a great lesson. Both of my comps were both willing to try and use their Spanish and share their thoughts and testimonies in the best way they could and I think it was a good experience for both of them, and me to be able to have that.
I had to give a talk this last Sunday, and I had kind of assumed I would be giving one here coming up, so I had a talk somewhat prepared, but we get to sacrament and see the program and the branch president put Elder Hulse on it as well to give a talk with me, in like his 4th day in the field. And then he said "Oh you didn't get my text?" And to give a little context, he wont give us his phone number, so needless to say, there was never a text giving him heads up. So we went and winged it and shared what he knew to the best of his ability, and it sure helped me feel way more prepared seeing as he didn't even have anything thought up and just had to go for it just out of the ccm. Well that has been my week here. I am gonna be honest, no pictures with us here so far... sorry mom, try to get some soon. I hope you all have a great week and I will talk to you later
Elder Pickering
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