Hey everyone! Back again after another week in Morris.
We had a pretty good week here with some fun experiences, nothing that are life shattering, but some good times.
So to start of this week we had our last exchanges with our district leader. So they came down to us on Sunday night and then were with us until Wednesday afternoon. So Monday we actually got to have a p-day with other elders which doesn't happen too much here in this area, so we did lots of basketball and just good times at the church. We ended up playing a game of 21 and it ended up being like a 2 and a half hour game, so good times.
Then Tuesday we had like a zone council type thing. Like a district council, but with our whole zone. So we had to drive all the way out to St. Cloud again for that. So that was good, its just hard when like every single week they have something that makes us leave our area because it is usually like a 2 day commitment which takes away time and work from our area which is just hard, but we made due.
So on Wednesday we finished up our exchanges and then after that we had the chance to go visit our man Leigh! He had just gotten home a little while before from surgery. He had some parts of skin taken out that might have been cancerous, so he was all stitched up, but doing super super well! We decided to just go through the baptismal interview questions with him, because he already knows so much about the gospel and we wanted to gauge where he is at.Turns out he pretty much knew everything and knew them well. We will have to go over prophets and how to pray with him and that's about it, and he has been going to church and reading from the book of Mormon as well as taking notes, so its going super well with him! He told us that he is still all for being baptized and willing to make that commitment, so we told him to pray for a day he would like to do it, and he told us to find a "dang" big tub haha. So he is in good spirits and ready to go. We wont be able to meet with him this week because he has to drive his wife to Fargo every single day this week for radiation treatment, but after that we will get to meet up and see what date he has decided and make those next steps!
Another pretty cool thing that happened is we were walking out of this apartment building and this guy just kind of looks at us and asks what we are and why we looked all fancy, so we ended up talking with him a bit and he said we wants to learn more, so hopefully we can meet up with him here soon and help him progress as well. It is super awesome when as a missionary you get to experience little miracles like that.
This week we also put some work into getting a game of soccer going down here in Morris on Saturday evenings, so we have been hyping that up on Facebook like crazy and posting fliers and inviting people. This first week we only had 2 other guys from our branch come, and 3 kids came and didn't see a big group and left, but granted it was also raining all day so conditions weren't the best. But it has been a lot of fun being able to be a part of getting an area really going with service and activities and be in the first group of that here in Morris.
Also fun little thing, this week while we were walking around town we found a bunch of Monarch Caterpillars and so now we have a little project of saving these caterpillars so the killer wasps here don't eat them, which is a fun fact I learned here. So you can look forward to a weekly progression picture of how well these little guys are growing as we attempt to save these creatures and help them grow up! We have one big chunky one that is an escape artist and we woke up this morning and it was just not in its little bottle anymore, and then we look around a bit and there it was just climbing up the wall, so fun adventures here in Morris.
Finally we ended the week with church yesterday, and we had 17 people total there with us, so far we have still been increasing in numbers which is awesome, and yesterday was the first time since my being here that we actually had a two hour church, which is a huge difference compared to the first week of like 55 minutes total, so we are working up and getting in the rhythm of things. Elder Johnson and I both had the chance to give talks on the atonement of our Savior and its always such a cool experience to study to give a talk. It gives you a chance to learn and grow for yourself, even if you only have a 40 minute heads up to prepare haha.
Well everything is good here, hope you all have a great week and keep the Savior in your heart!
Love you all!
Elder Pickering
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