Murals Round 2

Hey everyone!

So I hope you are all ready, because now that I am back in the cities with all the murals all over the place, you can expect all sorts of random pictures once again of me with some murals, so enjoy! 

So this week started off with MLC (Missionary Leadership Council) It was a good time, it is always fun to go and see people. It was super weird too because everyone there in the leadership was people that came out around the same time as me or will go home with me. So we all had a good time chatting it up since that is about the only time we get to converge from all sides of the mission.  

Otherwise the meeting was alright, its always hard to be stuck inside all day learning how to be a good missionary and whatnot, when you would rather be out and about doing it. And its also super funny to see how hard some people try and get on that AP grind, silly people.

One thing kind of fun this week was we got a random call from someone in Oklahoma that would be coming to Minneapolis and he told us to meet him up at the bus stop down town. So outside of missionary life it would be super sketch to just receive that and up and go, but that's the life here in the twin cities.  We got there and met him and found out he is a recent convert that will be living here for a little while which is cool. The crazy part is that he told us at any moment he could have a seizure right there. And we were waiting for his brother to come and meet up with us who just got out of jail for assault and it wasn't his first time haha. The mission always keeps things fun.

I got to go on exchanges with the Elders that are serving in Minnetonka here in the mission and that went well.  We ran into more Hispanics that day out in there area than I have run into since serving in this area. So that was super funny, but definitely a tender mercy for me to be able to use my Spanish.  Also its super funny to see how far out of the way some people will go to avoid confrontation or talking to us. Like if you don't want us to stop by or keep trying to talk to you, just let us know. Don't tell us through the door that you aren't home... again, silly people.

So some cool teaching moments this week.  We got to meet up with Jada, the referral we got from a couple weeks ago now, and it went super well! We brought a member as well and  it was great for fellow-shipping and then the spirit was real strong later on and I think she really has good potential to progress! We are hoping to see her at church real soon! We also visited this less active guy, we visit  him just about every week here to just see how he is doing and give him a lesson and whatnot. So his "like" girlfriend was there and sat in on the lesson and participated and expressed desires to want to be baptized! There will be some steps that for sure need to be taken first, but it should be a good time! 

Also there are a ton of Native Americans in our area we work with, and so its super fun playing the game now, Hispanic or Native American when trying to figure out how to start the conversation in Spanish or English. Thankfully when we go on the reservation, its pretty straight forward haha. 

Also I got to see my friend Victor who I worked with last year and helped him with his homework weekly! He is about to graduate and is setting up to go to college through the air force! Its so crazy to see him grow up, and we had a good heart to heart about how he needs the gospel in his life and so hopefully he can make some of those important decisions and steps before he heads out.

Well that is all I got for you today, have a great day! And make sure to go out and light the world!

Elder Pickering