Hey everybody!

So this week was super awesome!!!

Last Sunday we got a call from a member who said her son’s friend had some questions and he wanted to ask the missionaries!  So we were super stoked to go meet this little guy and answer all his questions, and maybe get his whole family interested or something along those lines!  But turns out that it was the members son who had the questions!  So we were happy to help him out with some things!  His name is Ryan and he's 9 years old.  He has been having a rough time at school with the other kids and stuff like that, and he said that all the bad things that were happening were having a bad effect on his faith and that his faith was about as big as an inchworm!  So we talked a lot with him and had a super spiritual lesson with him, and at the end of it he said his faith was super big!  It was really an awesome experience!  Yesterday we got to have dinner with the family and at the end of it he hugged us and thanked us for the help!  It was a really awesome experience and I love that little guy!!

Tomorrow we are having a mission conference, and Elder Pieper of the presidency of the seventy will be there!  I am super excited for this conference!  Elder Pieper requested that all the missionaries read an article from an ensign in 2007 by Elder Bednar; it’s called "seek learning by faith".  It was a really amazing article!  And the first part is all about what faith is and it made me look at it in a new way!  I thought about how faith is a motor that moves us forward, but he brought up that it is also in the past and we can look back to see when our faith brought great things!  So it’s like a motor, which moves us forward and causes us to act, but also refuels itself because we can look back and get a greater boost of faith!  It was a really awesome article and I am super excited for our conference tomorrow!

Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Pickett