Elder Berrett : Two weeks left!

Good Morning everyone!

My two great companions, elder Crockett and Davis have convinced me to finally write a weekly.

So quick recap.

Right now I'm serving with Elder Davis and Crockett. Due to my last companion getting injured and going home, we combined our areas and so now we cover Darby, Hamilton, and Stevensville 1st ward.

Being with these elders has been a blast. We definitely have our differences, but having 3 of us seems to balance it out nicely.

Things here are going pretty good. There are about 3 huge fires going on in the valley here. It's just FULL of smoke. Like, it looks like the valley just has a ton of FOG. We can't really see the mountains, depending on what time of day we cant at all. Needless to say, president asked us at zone conference to limit our time out side. :)

I gave my departing testimony on Friday at zone conference, that was weird.

This past week however was a blast! On Monday, we were going to hike st. Mary's peak and head to the look out tower, however due to all the smoke, that didn't really happen. Instead we all met in Corvallis at a basketball gym/bowling alley a member owns over there.:)

Tuesday and Wednesday we had exchanges with the Corvallis elders. We had one of the elders, elder Zeller with us. It was a little interesting being in Hamilton with both elder Davis and I new to the area and not knowing anything. Needless to say, some funny moments ensued. :)

On Wednesday we did get to go work in Stevi, we were able to have a wonderful lesson with the Smith family :) we presented the family with a children's copy of the book of Mormon and read the first chapter with their family. While the children read the spirit flooded the room and touched our hearts. Definitely one of those moments that i am super thankful to have as a missionary :) it was so great to see not only the children loving the scriptures, but watching the parents as their kids read, learned, and then testified to their parents about what they read. It wasn't super grand, but the spirit was definitely there, and they felt it :)

This Friday we got to have some conference! While there I got to see some old friends and learn a ton! While a lot of it was mainly focused on cars (we got a little black box in our car now. Basically big brother, but it's chill) there were some power house moments. One of the biggest things I took away from it was that there IS STILL tons of people to find and teach. The assistants taught us that the field IS white ready to harvest and as we exercise Faith and set goals we CAN and WILL find those who are ready. :)

I'm super excited about these next 2 weeks, I know the Lord has a ton in store for me.

I love you all, I hope you all have a wonderful day! And keep on smiling!

Never Give up, Never Surrender!
-Elder Berrett