Hey everyone!

This last week was very crazy! We went on exchanges for Monday and Tuesday, then Thursday and Friday, so I feel as if I didn't do any work in my area at all! The first exchange I had was with Elder Facuri. He is a way cool elder in my district, and he is going home at the end of the transfer (so he's fairly trunky.) The bad thing is HE'S IN VISTA 8TH WARD!! So it kinda made me a little trunky that day because he was talking about all the stuff he's gonna do, and who he's gonna see and whatnot! So yeah, he's going to come visit our ward and talk to you so don't be weirded out when a random guy comes up and says, I know your son! We had a really good time together and taught a couple lessons, and it was cool seeing a missionary, who has had almost all the experience he will get, teach.

There is a family here that just had their house burn down just under a month ago. They lost their whole house sadly, and we just had a big service project at their house, which was way cool! We didn't actually do anything with the wreckage, but we helped put gates around it so no one would go in, and we helped clear the area around it of the stuff that was there, mostly wood. 50 or so members were there and it really helped them out with everything they are going through. A really neat thing was that they served us lunch, but they had the Josi's father cook all the meat so it was awesome to get him around a large group of members to see that we're not all that bad haha.

We have a baptism this weekend, and Josi definitely won't cancel! (The baptism we were supposed to have on Saturday canceled on us) So that is way exciting being able to see someone embrace the gospel!

So it is the last day of winter, but it certainly doesn't look like winter outside! Sunshine and clear skies is what I'm seeing right now, and I am very glad to be out of the depressing rain we've been having!

Well time is short here in Oregon!
Elder "B-Dawg" Pickett