Dear Family,
This week has been good. It's been really rainy this week, and today is no exception. I'm getting a lot of use out of my raincoat. We have had good progress with the members this week. We had a couple of investigators at the church and the members did really good at reaching out to them and sitting with them. All of the priesthood gathered for the third hour since it was the fifth sunday and they went over the ward mission plan that is set up here. Hopefully more people are now inspired to find missionary opportunities in their lives.
My allergies actually haven't been too bad yet. The rain is helping with that i'm assuming. As for skyping on Mother's Day. We have a member that said we can come do it at their house on Sunday morning for me. We don't have church until 1 o'clock so that won't be an issue. So i can call whenever Sunday morning. Just let me know so i can set it up with them. I'm excited to talk again! It doesn't seem like Christmas was all that long ago. Time flies out here on the mission. This week we are also going to be getting a different car. The one we had "died" in the mission... exceeded the mile limit of 50000 for a mission vehicle this month. They don't tell us what we are going to get though.
The district is doing well. It's kind of fun to be the district leader and have an extra hour to prepare a training and really just study extra. Missionary work is really like a milking stool. It lays on three legs. Revelation through prayer, revelation through church attendance, and revelation through the book of mormon. Once they have experienced all three of these things that is when they are truly ready to be baptized. The church attendance one is definitely the hardest one for us in this area. We are doing better at getting investigators excited about coming to church though. And our church meetings really are great so that helps.
We are going to the temple on the 5th and i'm super excited about that. We have some recent converts going with us as well. The wife got hooked on cigarettes again after she was baptized... but we have been working with her and she has been going to an addiction recovery class and now she is ready to go to the temple and do baptisms for the dead! That has got to be the best part of the mission. Seeing the people that you teach attend the temple. It really is a blessing. I hope everyone has a great week!
Love, Elder Peterson
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