Happy Fall!

It's Autumn here!  The hardwoods are so pretty.  Too bad the camera can't capture the beauty very well.  And too bad that it means winter is coming.

Busy week here. We went to Fargo for 2 days of S&I (seminary and Institute) training.  We enjoyed meeting two other S&I senior missionary couples.One of the lessons we taught required them to participate in a tug-o-war.  These are the Evans who serve in Bismark and the Matellos that serve in Fargo.  You can identify two other people who are full-time CES employees, Brother Mattheson and Brother McDonald.  We enjoyed our training and learned more things we should be doing.  It was fun to socialize and be with people who have been doing this longer than us.  They had such good ideas.

 Today we gave a presentation at youth conference called "Why  Nauvoo Matters".  Here are some of the young people who attended.  They did many other pioneer activities and it was pretty fun to be with them.  We also went to the food bank on Thursday and Elder Stratton taught Institute class on Wednesday night.  That is a very fun class. He teaches and I bring the Oreos and post the reminders. I believe that divides up the responsibilities pretty well..                  

We also have an investigator that we are teaching.  That is pretty fun, too.  As long as he keeps meeting with us.  I really like teaching potential members.  I'm kind of surprised by that.

Last Sunday we gave talks in the Pine City branch.  I spoke about becoming a person worthy of eternal life.  Ron spoke about forgiveness.  It was a good experience and according to several people in the audience, they liked it too.

There is a Catholic university here in Duluth, and they have a campus wide theme this year that says,  "The World Needs More Saints."  I love that theme! They have it printed on flags all over campus and on a billboard.  Those Catholics are ahead of us on this one!