Hey everyone!

So Ellensburg is a farm town in a valley up in the mountains somewhere, it's where Central Washington University is, so there are a lot of college kids up here. We cover the biggest area in the mission, but most of it isn’t inhabited. We cover 2 wards, the Ellensburg 3rd and the Cle Ellum branch, which are 21 miles apart from each other so that is a very long drive for the small amount of miles we get each month. My companion is awesome, he's pretty short but he's a hard working dude.

The missionaries before us really liked to just hang out with the investigators, so we are having a hard time finding people who really want to have a lesson, rather than just sitting around and chatting.

I have done all the firsts you have mention, and tracting is actually really fun! We set a goal to talk to at least 12 people a day and have 84 at the end of the week. Cle Ellum is tiny, and my first door approach I said,” Hi, how are you”, then the guy shut the door. Our first lesson was to an older lady, she's turning 79 soon. She's a Native American named Ann, and she seems very excited to get a BoM that she could actually read. We had to get her a large text because she can't see very well. My first street approach was to a guy named CJ, he's going to CWU and we had to refer him to the other elders because he was in the 2nd ward.

Cle Ellum hasn't been actively proselyted for over 2 years so we are going to go start tapping into the potential it has. Which is also hard to do because of the mile shortage that we have.

Well keep up the hard work mom! Tell everyone I said hello. You should send me pictures when you start riding your trike!

Love, Elder Pickett