Ninth month mark

Hey everybody!

So this past Wednesday was my ninth month mark! It is pretty crazy haha. I finally got called a veteran and soon I can say just a little under a year. Menomonie has been great. We had about 65 people to church which they said was a lot. The church is a lot different too. It is only a stage 2 and doesn't have a gym and they don't have a chapel. They have a thing called an assembly room which looks like a chapel but it has chairs instead of benches and it is not dedicated.  So they can put up the chairs and can have a party or something in it. I also had to bless the Sacrament which is something I haven't had to do since New Prague.  But it's pretty great. 

We have a few investigators that are progressing pretty well, but President Forbes has asked us to work with less active members  a lot because there are around 300 members of the branch and only 50 to 60 are active. 

Tabitha is our most progressing investigator and has a baptismal date set for May 27th. She is a college student here in Menomonie at the University of Wisconsin - Stout. She is from St Louis, Missouri and she didn't really grow up religious, but when she got to college she started going to some non denominational church and bible studies. Then her friend in St Louis, who is a member, told her to look up the church and ask for the missionaries to come over. She thought that there was no way that there were missionaries in Menomonie, Wisconsin. She only met the missionaries a few weeks ago and had come to church 3 times and brought a less active member to church. She is super solid and it's pretty exciting.

Our other Investigator that is pretty solid is Derrick. We only met him on Saturday. He lived in Chippewa Falls and was meeting with the missionaries there but just moved to Menomonie. He has had a pretty rough time in life and made some bad choices and has addictions. He wants to change and I think he will but it will just be a long process. He loves the Book of Mormon and he doesn't have a car so he rode a bike to church. That's dedication. There are a lot of people that won't come when they have a car and nothing else to do. He is super sincere and I really like him.

So last Saturday we went over to this old ladies house and helped her with some yard work. We raked up some wood chips around a tree and we weeded her garden. Well when we saw the weeds we didnt quite know what they were. Well Elder Peterson grabbed a handful and pulled it out and his hand started stinging pretty bad.. well then I realized it was stinging nettle. His hand hurt for a couple days after that. We got gloves that afternoon and pulled them all out with a few minor stings. Well I got stung a few times on my arm, but Elder Peterson whole hand got stung and then he kept getting stung through his gloves. He is better now though haha

Anyways not much else happened this week. So I will talk to y'all later! 

Elder Bullock