Hey everyone!
Back again with the same beginning to my group email as it has been always haha, but its been a good week. Transfers are coming up this next week, and we are still pretty sure that we will be training here in Morris in a trio. But we will see for sure on Tuesday, we are all excited.
So starting off the week with all the fun stuff. On Tuesday we got to go up to have a dinner with one of our members in the English ward that we try to watch out for here and there, and this family technically lives like half a mile outside of mission boundaries, so pretty much we were #Rebels this week. But that dinner was so much fun. The family has 11 kids, with 9 of them still at the house and they were celebrating their twins birthday that day. So we got some delicious food and then the kids wanted to have a nerf war, so the whole house got involved and they have a ton of nerf guns and hundreds of bullets. Man we got to be kids again and just a good time, the simple adventures like that are always a blast.
Also I got to work on my barber skills again this week and I cut Elder Johnson's hair, so when I'm back, if any of you are looking for an amateurishly professional haircut, I am your man.
This week we got pretty dumped on by the rain a few times. The first we were ending our night with a dinner, and as a missionary you get an hour of time for dinner, and we ate quick and had about an half hour of time left over at the end. So lately we have been trying to be healthier and doing runs here and there and all that good stuff. So we decided to make the most of the rain and go do a quick mile run to just get some fresh water. We got super soaked, got to run and splash the rivers that the roads became, and just have a good time, but lets just say we were completely soaked. And then later in the week when our weekly soccer we are trying to start up came around, the clouds looked a bit menacing. And there were only 3 of us at the time, and it just started to pour, so people decided not to come. But we passed the ball around a little bit in this monsoon type storm and once again soaked ourselves. It was practically swimming in the air with how much rain was coming down, but it was some good times. One of these weeks, the weather won't rain out our soccer and scare people away.
Also as I have expressed in past emails, we do service at a salvation army thrift store here in Morris. This week we were supposed to take down this hoist they had in the back room and so we got to be batman and try to hoist our way up into the sky with our "grappling hook". Although it looked probably a lot more lame than it may sound, we made the best of it. That has something I have always been an advocate of on my mission, is having fun. Taking small moments to laugh or do something funny or make you or your companions day. Way too often people think that they have to be lifeless robots, but this 2 years of your mission is still your life, so make it so you wont regret it, in all ways. Work hard, laugh hard, pray hard.
Now to more of the work that we did here. This week we had a lot of contact with our people and have been able to set up lessons with a bunch of them! So we have been very blessed in that aspect this last week and we are super excited to see what we can do with all those lessons this week. It should be fun for our new kid. We had a bit of time to do finding and met this kid going to college here in Morris and he was super open to have us come over this next week and let us start working with him. It is a nice relief for us when people are open from the get go to hearing our message and nice about it too, so we are excited.
We also have this new Hispanic couple that we got a lesson with and now are going to start meeting weekly with them, like everyone they have their hardships and trials, but the gospel is always the best place to find relief from those things. There are so many blessing that we get in the gospel, we just need to have the eyes open to see them and take them in. So we are optimistic with them too. The hard thing like always is work, everyone here in Minnesota here wants to work on Sundays, and if they aren't working, they are out playing hard. And that is hard because we have the knowledge of how much you can get when you give your will to God. The only thing that we can offer to God in this life that he can't get for himself is our will. We can come before him with a contrite heart and open spirit, willing to sacrifice what is necessary to align our will to His. And then we need patience. Because God's timing is key, and when we are patient in whatever it may be, we are promised in Alma 26:27 that we will have success. So stay patient, give your all to God, and watch for his blessings.
Hope you are all doing great and have a good week!
Elder Pickering
PS. Saved another turtle this week from the road, so I'm out here just saving lives.
P.P.S. Also all 3 caterpillars are in their cocoons I know you were all wondering.
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