MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS MISSION

Hey everybody!

This week was a super awesome week mainly because Tabs got baptized! We had a good turn out, for a branch, as well. So I guess I will tell the whole story (I don't know how much you know) She is from St Louis so she is away from home for College here at UW Stout. She was trying to find God more in her life since she wasnt really raised religious. She had a friend back home that is a member and told her to look up the church and ask for missionaries and she was like there is no way there is missionaries in small Menomonie. She self referred herself about a month ago and she accepted the Gospel pretty quick and had a lot of support and fellowship from the branch. Her family didn't come to the baptism or even Skype in. They aren't against it but they are just kind of neutral about it. So I guess that's better than being super anti. But yeah it went well and we had Kate, who is a member here going to college, give the talk. The cool thing is she is home visiting her family so she Skyped in from Idaho. Brother Helland baptized her and confirmed Her! He is a super cool guy.

We had district meeting and interviews on Wednesday so we drove up to Eau Claire and had District meeting and I gave a handbook training and then we had a training on what President Nelson said. Then we had interviews with President and those are always good because he will ask about our area and then we can ask him questions. It was my last interview with President Forbes before he goes home. Our new mission President is President Barney and he will come in the middle of next transfer. Anyways that night we went to a band concert for one of our investigators. His name is Baylee and it was his last concert before graduation so we went. He are hoping to start meeting with him a lot more and get him to come to church.

We have been helping Jeff and Hsaing move and there was one day we were helping for like 5 hours. They gave us a ride out there and it was pretty far away so we couldn't just leave when we wanted to. We were glad we were able to help them though. We helped them a little bit today as well. Hsaing has came to church once since I have been here and she said once she is done moving we can start to have lessons. So that will be good

We have a lot of part member families that we are planning on stopping by and we think that they all have a lot of potential so that is going to be the focus for this week. There are a lot of Children of Record as well. We have met some of them but we just haven't been able to get in with them and teach yet.

We just met this less active lady named Julie and she let us in and we kind of got to know her. She is a widow and is struggling financially and has to eat out dated food. We talked with her for awhile and we shared the Prince of Peace video and she started crying and the spirit was super strong. She told us about what she is going through and we were able to teach about the Savior and that he is there for her and has felt that. We invited her to church and then told her that she has a family there that can help her and support her and she came to church. I thought that was a super cool lesson.

We have ridden our bikes a lot this week as well and since we were I felt like I should take some pictures of what we were riding by so I have a lot of pictures this week. We also went to Colfax and rode our bikes around there. It's a small little town just over 1000. It makes me feel at home haha but Elder Peterson doesn't like it haha. Today for p day we went to this place called the Devils punch bowl and it is a pretty cool place. Thanks Dad for telling us to go!

Well anyways that's was my week. It has been a pretty good week. I will talk to y'all later!

Elder Bullock