Hey Everybody!

This last week was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!!!

We had another lesson with Austin, and it was a pretty typical lesson.  He sometimes tries to get off topic and talk about video games and what-not, but this week he didn't do that at all!  It was awesome, because then after the lesson he volunteered to give the prayer!!  It was the first time he's prayed in front of missionaries and it was so strong and just awesome!  The lesson we had with him was reading from Alma chapter 32, which is the one that talks all about faith being a seed and how faith isn't a perfect knowledge (We chose this because he had a question of why can't we just see Christ and know he's there) So yeah it was awesome, and he even invited his little brother Gage to sit in on the lesson!  Usually Gage just goes to the other room and plays video games, but this time he wanted to read with us!  It was just pretty much and awesome day!!

Last Friday we had our Christmas zone conference!  It was so cool and at first we talked about 8 gifts Heavenly Father has given us and it was an awesome training!  The gifts were:
1. Christ and the Atonement   John 3:16
2. The Gift of the Holy Ghost   1 Nephi 10: 17

3. The Plan of Happiness   Alma 12: 25 

4. Angels   Alma 13: 24

5. Agency   2 Nephi 2:  27

6. Assurance   D&C 84:88

7. The Temple   D&C 109: 22

8. Assurance that our offerings are acceptable    D&C 126

It was just like the BEST THING EVER!!!  It was great, got to see a lot of friends and it was all good!  Then as the WKM (Washington Kennewick Mission) Christmas tradition we watched Brave, the Pixar movie about the Scottish princess!  It was way good too!!

I hope you all have a merry Christmas!!
Love,
Elder Pickett