Hey everybody!!

This week is transfer week, and I am leaving Vancouver :(  I am headed up to a little town called Kelso, it's gonna be awesome!!  My new companion, Elder Florence and I came out together!  So it’s gonna just be 2 old men hangin out doin work!! It’s weird because our 17 month mark is the day after transfers.   Elder Stucki is training now so that’s way exciting for him!  He always thought he would never train, but me and all the missionaries here have been teasing him that his greeny call (The mission president calls and asks you to train, it’s called a greeny call) was coming and that he should get ready, when it actually came he was kinda freaking out and didn’t believe it for a couple days!  It was awesome hahaha


This week I had a way cool experience on exchanges, I was with another Elder and he is notorious for being sick at all the right times... So this day at 7:30 he says he wants to go in because he feels sick!  So I was debating it and I asked if we could just go try one more person, we haven't got in with them in a couple 3 weeks. Well he said we could try 1 more so I happily did, and we got in!!!!  It was a great visit and they got along very well, we set up another appointment (I won't be here though :( but that’s life) and it was an awesome experience for both of us!! 

The church is making 58 new missions.  Here in my mission, in July there will be lots going on. Depending on where I’m at in July I could be in another mission!  The new missions up here are Washington Federal Way mission, Washington Vancouver mission, and Oregon Salem mission. All of them take a part of the Washington Kennewick mission!  It’s awesome to be a missionary, where ever the Lord puts me!

So yeah that sums up my week!  I do need a new SD card so I can send you this one, its waaaaay full!!!
Love,
Elder Pickett

Hey everybody!!

So this week was just as great as last week!!

I had an awesome confirmation of the power and authority that God has granted me to do this work!  So there is this family here, and they are having a hard time with everything.  Two weeks ago they shared with us that they didn't think they could pay tithing and all of the bills and we talked a lot about that and the blessings that come from it.  Well, we didn't commit them to pay their tithing, I guess in fear they would say no (Not proud of that one...) but we were talking to him this Sunday and he said he is waiting on a call for a job that he interviewed for, we were super stoked to hear that.  But the best part was he told us that after that lesson he realized he needs to do it all Gods way in order to get help from God.  So he told us that they paid their tithing!!!  That was the best thing ever because it proved to us that when we follow the spirit and teach with him as our third companion that miracles happen, hearts are softened, and God is allowed to work miracles in people’s lives.  We have an appointment with them tonight so we will see what happens!

So that was like the big story of the week!  Elder Stucki and I  had a wonderful valentine’s day!  We had a super romantic lunch with our district!!  (It actually wasn't romantic at all, and I’m learning to love sushi, so yeah...)  And then we worked all day long, which was really fun!

So there’s one thing I need to tell you about the people of Vancouver. They CRAVE the sunlight!  This past Friday, and today have been sunny days.  And the parks are PACKED.  So naturally we decided to go walk through the parks and talk to everyone!!  It was great!!  And on our agenda for today, we have..... Park tracting again!!!!  It’s going to be a wonderful sunny day :)

Hope you all had a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Pickett

Hey Everybody!

This week was so good!  My Mission President E-mailed me last week, and I’m just gonna quote what he said!

Elder Pickett, Thank you for your letter. As I was preparing the transfer, I worked under the impression that you should be transferred. Then I received a solid impression that you two should continue serving together. Let me know how it goes. There simply must be something you or Elder Stucki must learn from the other or find, teach or baptize. Let me know by the end of the transfer what it is. We love you. President

So that was my letter back from him, it is so cool thinking that he could feel specifically that I was still supposed to be here in the Couv! (Vancouver) And I’m pretty sure, not entirely, but pretty sure I’ve figured out why!

So this lady Roby I talked about last week, she is having a rough time.  She is living with a family in the ward, because she got out of a bad situation and needed a place to be!  So we have been teaching her for the past two weeks, and this week she accepted an invitation to be baptized on February 23rd!  She is awesome and we are so excited to see her make that commitment to the Lord!

Another cool experience is with Justin, a soon to be New Investigator!  We were tracting at 8:30 and found out that obedience pays off!  So we knock on a door and a guy and his daughter come to the door!  He introduces us as the LDs missionaries to his daughter before we can even say hi, and he goes to tell us that he would love to talk to us, and he went to the open house of the Omaha Nebraska temple!  We set up an appointment for Wednesday at 1, and we are way stoked to talk to him and his wife!

Well that was my exciting week!
Have a good one!
Love,
Elder Pickett