MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS MISSION

WEEK TEN

The Last shall be first

Hey guys this week was pretty crazy with transfers happening! On Tuesday we just packed up Elder Moore's stuff most of the day. Elder Moore went and said bye to a bunch of the members. We didn't get home until like 10:30 that night and Elder Moore still had to pack so we didn't get to bed until like 12:30.

On Wednesday we left at about 9 and went to Lakeville to drop Elder Moore off an then I took Elder Johansson, who is from Sweden, and Elder Heiden. I drove up to Bloomington with them and then we parked at the mission home and got all of our vehicles inspected and then I met Elder Last! He is one of those guys that is always smiling and he just gets along with everyone! We get along super good though and we have been talking to each other like nonstop. And yes there has been a lot of Last jokes like, I hope you are not the last missionary. We went and ate at Taco Bell with Elder Callans, and I gave him a ride to Lakeville. Then we went back to New Prague and unpacked and we decided to clean the apartment like super good which was super awesome. I think we might have the cleanest apartment in the mission. We went to the church to go introduce the members to Elder Last. When we got there Sister Seger asked us if we would go and give Sister Grewe a blessing. Brother Thomas is her home teacher so he drove us out there and about half way we got a call and apparently she was on her way the ER in New Prague so we turned around and went back. We checked in and then we were able to give her a blessing. She is in a lot of pain and she hasn't been able to eat since Wednesday because it hurts her. While we were there we were able to give her daughter a blessing because she was really sick.

On Thursday we went to Le Sueur and we were going to ride our bikes around because that is something we decided to do this transfer to save miles and it is something we both like doing. Unfortunately when we got there we realized my bike has a flat tire so we just parked the car and walked around Le Sueur. We were able to do a lot more contacting, which is just talking to people as you pass them. We were in the library to use the wifi for a few minutes and when we left we walked right into rain. We walked back to the car in the rain, which was fairly close and ate our amazing pb&j dinner and it stopped raining. We decided to go introduce Elder Last to Brother Lewis. When we got there he was having dinner so he fed us anyway. After we left it was raining again, but we decided to be tough and go visit Brother Snow before we went back to the car so by the time that we got there we were pretty soaked. He offered to give us a ride to the car which was nice. The drive back to New Prague was pretty rough though. It was raining so hard I could barely see and Le Sueur is the farthest town.

On Friday we went and helped Brother Reinwand move for a few hours, but they gave us pizza so it was totally worth it. It actually was super awesome and Brother Williams made us laugh the whole time. It was pretty cold though, but I have been hearing from a lot of people that this winter is going to be pretty bad. Sister Dvorak showed us pictures of the bad winters where she couldn't even get into her car because there was so much snow. I honestly think that would be super awesome and am pretty excited to test drive my new snow boots. They said that the worst is when it is so cold that it can't snow so there will be no snow but just freezing. Elder Last is from Hurricane, Utah so he is used to the warm weather. He said he got here in March and thought that was pretty cold.

We got a text this week from Little Fawn telling us that they are getting married which is super awesome. We are going to have President Hoskins marry them so hopefully we are here for that. They said they want to get married soon so hopefully.

Saturday we went to Montgomery again and went to help out at the food shelf again. It was pretty slow but were able to talk to Little Fawn there a little and it is always nice to help these people out especially because no guys work there and they cant carry them out and I would hate to have some old lady have to carry this stuff out. We walked around Montgomery all day which was awesome and we got to see a lot of new things that I didn't notice before when we drove everywhere.

Sunday was super awesome and it is always good to fast. I even bore my testimony even though I was like super nervous. We went out to Le Center with Brother Brimhall for a bit and then had dinner with the Dvoraks again. Brother Dvorak gave us a lot of advice again and he is way awesome.

This week has been one of the best weeks so far. Elder Last is a really good missionary and I have been learning so much from him and he has been doing a good job of training me. We are really similar and I love how he talks to people and I have been really trying to improve my talking skills. One thing that stuck out to me from conference is joy. And I love in Elder Nelsons talk he said that we need to suffer with joy and that our suffering will be taken by Christ. We can only feel joy through Christ and this gospel and I know that everyone has their ups and downs, but as long as we stay close to the teachings of this church and keep the commandments that God has given us we can have that true joy. I encourage you all to look in to that talk because it is super awesome. I am super glad to be out here and I am excited for it.

Elder Bullock