Pickett, Mason PT

Brothers and sisters, hoping this email finds you all in a blessed state. Let's jump right into this past week's events. KING OF CTOWN Recently, we've been working with our guy Jorge, an older member who recently reactivated himself, and now he's all in. A stud. This week, he walked around with us to teach and visit people, and this dude knows EVERYONE. He was chatting with literally everyone like, “Oh, we used to play soccer back in the day,” or “Oh, he's buddies with my brother.” This guy knows everybody. Every other house we walked by was his cousin's place or something. My companion was like, "How many cousins does this guy have?" The best part is that when we were contacting and visiting people, everyone recognized him and let us in. Jorge is our secret weapon, the king of C-town. Lessons with members are about to get exciting. OFF THE DOME This is the third week in a row the branch president has come up to me minutes before church and asked me to...

Mi beloved gente, I hope this email finds you enjoying your Monday, I know I am. Let's get straight to what's going down here in C-TOWN (Carapeguá). SANTIAGO Just a funny little detail/blessing. There's a kid who lives here in Carapeguá named Santiago. Now Santiago is a reincarnated version of my little brother Conner. They talk, act, and they even LOOK the same to me. He's my BOY. Getting to know Santiago, his life is not easy, none of his family comes to church and they're kind of all mixed in a bunch of bad stuff. But this 13-year-old kid comes to church and the activities anyway by himself, even though all his family, extended and immediate, are Catholic and bully him a little for coming. I love this kid. When I'm talking to him I truly feel I am speaking to my little brother. There is no doubt God did his thing and crossed our paths. DATE NIGHT So Elder Decima and I have been trying to eat at this fancy restaurant here in Ctown for a minute now. Saturday we...

Dear brothers and sisters of the promised land, The week has been nuts, so I'm gonna jump right to it so we can all take advantage of this beautiful Monday. CAMBIO So this week we got a call from the APs and they told us there was gonna be an ET (emergency transfer) because there were some difficulties somewhere else. So I got a new comp! His name is Elder Decima. He's from Argentina, a little shy but he absolutely rips guitar and he's clean so we're chill, we're buddies. With me getting this new comp we're basically doing a whitewash (which means all new missionaries) here in Carapegua so it's been a little tough getting to know the area and such because we're both new here. But trust, we got big things cookin… ZC Friday we went back to Asuncion for zone conference and like usual it was a spiritual feast. Many great thoughts and testimonios were shared. It was beautiful. President addressed us about the topic of love and having love for what we have and...

Fam, friends, sorry for keeping you hanging last week, but now I'm back with some of the weekly goodness. A lot has happened, so I'm gonna get straight to it. MYSTERY ZONE/AREA Your boy got transferred to an area called Carapeguá (that means short people in Guaraní, so I'm gonna stick out even more here). And folks, it happened again. I got sent to not only an area that is far out and very unknown but a whole zone. A bunch of the missionaries have joked with me before, telling me the zone doesn't exist, etc., and I always said, "Oh, I feel bad for the chump who gets sent there." Well, it appears the Lord has a sense of humor because we are out here now. But I'm trying to see it as an opportunity to mess around and help the Lord make some miracles go down or something, idk. The vibes are very similar to when I got to Oviedo, and we know how that went, so I'll keep you posted. My new comp is my brother Elder Lecca! Homie's from Peru, and he has even ...