Hey everybody!

So Hazel Dell ward has an annual tradition of having a 4th of July breakfast on the morning of the fourth!  It was a smashing success with 160 people there!  It suddenly became less successful on Thursday morning when the strawberries took their revenge out on half of the ward!  Everybody got sick and had a bad day after 4th.  And at ward council we heard alot about it.  It was pretty funny because neither I nor my companion got sick so we had nothing to be mad about!

We had dinner with Sis Adams sister last night, and their family is super awesome! 

We had to go in on the fourth so we didn't get to see any cool shows, but buying mortars is legal here so everyone and their mother has their own private show which wasn't a terrible thing but we couldn’t see very well from our backyard haha

It’s pretty warm where I am, basically just a normal San Diego summer. Its temple p-day so it’s on Tuesday, and I got to go to the Portland temple, which was awesome!

There is an awesome opportunity we have this week to receive a "mini missionary" he is a 17 year old guy from Vancouver north stake!  We will hopefully be able to take him through all the aspects of missionary life such as teaching lessons to investigators, less actives, and even members!  He will be with us for 2 days, but he will go home and sleep there at nights which is pretty good since our beds are not of the best quality.  I wish I could have done this before my mission!  It's definitely an awesome opportunity for us and him! 

Sorry about the short E-mail today, I'll have awesome stories next week!
Love,
Elder Pickett