Dear Family,
Hello their family! This has been a good week. Brittany i did get your picture puzzle that was sent from china... thank you so much! Such a clever little device/idea. I have indeed been surviving the drought. We actually fasted as a mission yesterday for rain on top of whatever else we were fasting for. I'm sure we will see the fruits of that effort in the upcoming weeks. It was nice to see green grass in those pictures you sent Brittany. Around here it's just a bunch of dead grass. Unless people put out their sprinkler attachment on their hose and water their grass every day which not a whole lot of people do. This last week has been a not so typical missionary week i guess you could say. On Wednesday we were on exchanges with Davenport 2nd ward elders in our area then on Thursday we had district meeting in Davenport and then started exchanges with the Davenport 1st ward elders right after that in their area. That is when i went to the pageant that night. It was super sweet! We got their around 6:30 at night. We were supposed to be their by 6 because our ride was working security, but we got stuck waiting on this bridge that had swung out to let a barge through. It was pretty cool just to see a whole bridge that was parallel with the river and then swung back and connected with both sides again once the boat was clear. The pageant didn't start until about 8:30 though so we had some time to peruse through the city and do some of the activites that they have going on before the pageant. One of the young men in our ward played the bagpipes in the pipe band their so we got to see him which was good since he had been gone for several weeks from church. Then the pageant was excellent. Definitely worth going to see again. Plus after the pageant we talked to people and got some solid referrals for some other missionaries. they were actually from Provo. But i didn't see anyone i knew. Elaine S. Dalton was their for the pageant, but i didn't go up and meet her. Then we got back very early morning on Friday and stayed in Davenport and went on exchanges with the zone leaders there all day. Now I'm back in Davenport because the Nauvoo trip counted for P-day so we are on exchanges again for the day. But even with being gone a lot this week we still got some work done in our area. We set 2 baptismal dates for the 25th of August! They are super sweet and super solid. It is awesome to see people so prepared. Also at church we had a guy and his fiancee show up at church randomly and said they are looking for a church and want to join ours. We went up and met them after sacrament meeting and we have a meeting for wednesday this week and also we are eating dinner with them and the bishop's family next sunday. Miracles are happening! And faith precedes the miracle! This week i'll be spending some time looking for a new apartment because we are getting a second set of missionaries coming into the Rock Island ward this next transfer. That will be great because the area we cover is huge! They will be english speaking elders and it will be fun to have more missionaries on the illinois side of the river in the quad cities.
Even with the drought we are starting to see the corn stands pop up. We bought a dozen the other day and it was way good. The peaches and cream style too which is the best in my opinion. The food pantry that we do volunteer service at always has people come in and drop off fresh vegetables that they have from their gardens that they just can't use so we take some home every week. We have lots of tomatoes in our fridge right now and some cherries. We will have to restock again tomorrow when we go there.
I think it is interesting that the nauvoo pageant is the only pageant that is written and scripted by the first presidency of the church. The pageant really is a missionary tool and testifies of pretty much every church principle. It goes hand in hand with preach my gospel and my testimony of Joseph Smith has been strengthened by attending. The church is true! I love you all!
Elder Peterson
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