MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS MISSION

Happy Mother's Day

This week has been a great week! The definite highlight was being able to talk to my family that I have been so blessed with! And Happy Mothers day to my fantastic Mother!

So this week we went on exchanges with the Eau Claire Elders and I went to Eau Claire with Elder Meyer. Elder Meyer is super awesome and super funny! We both came out at the same time so we were able to talk about that. In the morning we had district meeting so Elder Peterson and I drove there and then after district meeting we exchanged.

We went to the college campus there and went contacting, so we just walked around and talked to college kids for an hour and a half. Elder Meyer has some rules when he contacts. He doesn't talk to people when there is more than one. If there are two people he just skips them. He won't talk to someone if there is a big crowd right behind them. I know he has a few other rules but I like them. It is already awkward enough to talk to random people. We went and shared the Prince of Peace video with this guy named Paul and he said he would come to church so that was a super cool Miracle! We got his number and he had the address to the church and our number! We talked to quite a few people but we hadn't given out a Book a Mormon yet so I told Elder Meyer that we had to pass one out before we got back to the car. We saw this girl sitting by herself just reading so we go over and ask if we can share a scripture and we shared Ether 12:27 and she liked it and took a Book of Mormon! Hopefully she can read it and they can start meeting with her!

We went to dinner and the people we had dinner with was my cousin Shaura and her family! So that's was really cool. We were able to see a less active family that night as well and we stopped by a few people who weren't home.

Then the next day we exchanged back and we met in Elk Mound. We stopped by the few people that we had in our area book from Elk Mound, but no one was home. After trying to stop by a less active guy's house we were driving down this narrow road and this dog was walking around and this lady was behind it in a car. I think it was her dog that wasn't coming home or listening to her. Anyways this dog and another dog that was outside started fighting and the lady gets out and runs over. The owner of the other dog was outside and he separates them and opens the door of his truck and his dog gets in and then he pulls out a handgun and points it at the other dog! We were driving away at this point, but I never heard at gunshot so I think we are okay! It was super intense though!

We mowed lawns quite a bit this week. There is a less active family that we do laundry at their house and email there as well and they were out of town for a week or so. While they were gone we would feed their fish and we decided we were going to mow their lawn. They have a riding lawn mower so it wasn't too hard but it felt good to help them out. Then on Saturday we went out with Brother Erickson and he wanted to go see a less active person out in Boyceville. We had a lesson with Derick that morning and we wanted him to meet him to be a fellowshipper. We also had this lady that wanted us to come mow her lawn over on Wheeler, which is close to Boyceville, so we asked if he could take us over there after seeing the lessactive person and he said sure and offered his lawn mower. So he comes and picks us up and we go to the library and have a super awesome lesson with Derick about the Plan of Salvation and answer a lot of his questions. Then we go out to this less active person, Mark, and when he opened the door he asked us if we were willing to do service. He needed his lawn mowed because he can't do it very well because of allergies and we happened to have a lawn mower and clothes to mow a lawn! If that's not a miracle then I don't know what is. So we change and then mow his lawn and it went super quick since we had two Mowers! Then while we were mowing we get and call from another less active lady and she asked if we could help her get pull ups for her kids because she was working all weekend and they were running low and her husband didn't have the car to go get some. So Brother Erickson goes back to Menomonie and then buys pull ups and then drives up to Knapp and gives them pull ups. Brother Erickson is such a Stud! Anyways after mowing his lawn and chatting for a little bit we go over to this other ladies place and mow her lawn and it was a good thing we brought Brother Erickson because she didn't have one. She needed it mowed because she was maybe going to get her kids back from social services and they wanted it to look nice. I am not sure if I told that story last week, but basically she got her kids taken a way because the dad hit one of the kids and the place was just a mess so the kids got taken away and they had to clean up and maybe they would get them back but I don't know if they did.

We saw Tabitha a few times this week and things are going well for her. Her date is still on May 27th and we set the time for 10:30! I am super stoked for her baptism. She is super solid and we have taught her everything she needs to know and went over the baptismal questions with her. She will have the interview on Friday.

So this Saturday we are having a mission wide conference and Russell M. Nelson is going to be there and speak to us and he requested that he gets to shake every missionaries hand. So that is going to be super awesome. I am really excited for it.

We did a lot of walking this week as well. The weather was super nice and we are low on miles so we figured we might as well. We didn't really see a lot of people but a lot of people talked to us. Some things were kind of funny, like we walked up to this lady outside grilling on a small grill and talked to her a little and then this guy yells out the window "she's married!" That was pretty funny. Then right after that these guys drove by and out the window they told us some guys stole our bikes back there. People were honking at us and waving and we heard some kids yell hey Elders. We are so popular!

Well anyways that was my week! I will talk to y'all later!

Elder Bullock