Hello Family!
This has been another great week. We have interviews coming up on Thursday of this week which will be great. We are also having district meeting on that day so it will be a very meeting filled day. Then we have zone conference that next wednesday so we will get to see a lot of President and Sister Jergensen these next two weeks. The weather has been good recently. It's starting to cool down a little bit and has been breezy the last couple of days and it just feels nice. Shortly here it will become suit coat weather again. Peaches and cream corn is just like one of the varieties of corn. It's a little sweeter and the kernels are kind of smaller. It doesn't have to do with literal peaches or cream... that's just what it's called. We did a service project this week for the Gillmore family. We continued to side his house. We started back sometime in May or June. We are going to be finishing this Saturday. The project got put on hold because Brother Gillmore broke both of his feet. He is doing really well now and can walk around. He can even wear tennis shoes now for some of the time. Elder Taylor and I also dismantled his wheelchair ramp he had going up to his door on Saturday. That same day we also did some service for a referral that two sister missionaries gave us from Bettendorf. We went and met Carrie and put together a computer desk for her. She works for a member in the Bettendorf ward and was really interested in the church. We gave her a book of mormon to read and set up a time to go back this week and teach her the first lesson. I'm really excited to start teaching her.
I like that lesson idea about the origami bird. One object lesson that we have started using that I remembered back from when I was at Utah State is about finding people to teach. You get a small tupperware and fill it with uncooked rice and then put 4-5 small safety pins into it (closed so you don't hurt yourself.) Then you have three phases. First you have them close their eyes and don't tell them what they are looking for, just that it's not rice and you ask them to pull it out of the container. So far none of them have been able to. Then phase 2 is you tell them what it is, so you tell them they are looking for safety pins, and ask them to pull one out. They still can't do it. Then for phase 3 you tell them they can look in and pull them out. For some reason the safety pins just feel exactly like the rice and so it's virtually improbable for them to pull one out with just rubbing the rice around in their hand and fingers. The moral of the lesson though is that if we are blindly going through our days knowing that there are blessings(phase 1) or specifically people to teach the gospel in our homes(phase 2) we still won't be able to find them unless we keep our eyes open and really look for them(phase 3). And when we are looking for them, they are easy to pull out. Just a cool little lesson that's fun for kids as well.
Well i know that this church is true!
Love, Elder Peterson
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