Dear Family,
This has been a great week. I
do only have one week left in the boot now. This district must just be
bad luck because our district leader, Elder Cutler, hurt his ankle
pretty bad last monday playing basketball. He is on crutches and his
ankle is swollen up. He hasn't been allowed to go see a doctor yet so he
doesn't have a boot or anything. It doesn't look quite as bad as mine
was though. We have a zone p-day today with the Des Moines and
Oskaloosa zones combined. It is going to be a lot of missionaries in
the stake center. I'm not exactly sure what we are to be doing, i've
just been told it will be fun-ness. I might just be warming the bench
with Elder Cutler but we'll see. The weather has been crazy here this
week. 2 days ago it got up to 60 degrees and today we came outside and
it is 1 degree. It snowed yesterday and we spent our Elder's quorom
lesson time shoveling the snow on the church grounds. We are expected
to get snow flurries all this week. Hopefully i can stay healthy
through the cold weather. Thank you for the tips on keeping warm
mother. For some reason I had just decided not to/forgot to wear
thermals so my legs were cold but everything else was fine. Thanks for
the updates on who all is leaving on Missions. That is pretty crazy to
see that people like Sean Weitzel are old enough to serve missions now!
But i guess with the age reduction it makes sense. Wade mentioned that
Ben Swenson just gave his farewell. Where is he going to?
Things with Kirk have been going interesting. We
taught him inside the homes of 2 members this week and we re set his
baptismal date for in February. He seemed like he was doing really
well. But then after we got out of all of our meetings we had on Sunday
we didn't see him at church so we asked him if he was still coming and
he said that he wasn't because he didn't have a good feeling. We have
gone through this once before with him so hopefully we can turn him
around again. We weren't able to meet with him last night either
because he was busy doing snow removal for his job. On the upside we
picked up 9 new investigators this past week! That is a new record for
me. And none of them are single people either haha. 3 are a family
from Liberia, 2 from Kenya, 1 from Dominican Republic and the rest are
american. We are keeping ourselves quite busy with this expansion into
our teaching pool. It is a good story of how we met Leena (the
dominican republic lady) and her husband JD. We called up a priest in
our ward that morning and asked him to come on splits with us because we
needed to go see a single lady and needed another man to come with us.
We went and picked him up and she wasn't home so we tried some other
people and they weren't home either. We still had about an hour and
change before he had to be back home so we tried this less active man
that the bishop asked to go see and he wasn't home either, but no
suprise there. We did feel like we needed to knock on his neighbors
doors though. We knock the first and it's an older man who tells us
that we can't solicit here and he's really not interested. Then the
second door was Leena and she let us right in. It worked out great
because we wouldn't have been able to go in if we didn't have Chad with
us. Then while we were teaching her, her husband came home from work
early that day for "some reason". He joined in on the discussion and
they were both pretty excepting.
In other news, Amber's daughter Hope is getting
baptized on Feb 2. Amber is our recent convert who was baptized on Dec
1. Hope has asked me to confirm her so that is pretty exciting. We
also went back and ate at the same members house where we think we got
food poisoning from... and we are still alive! No food poisoning this
time. We went to the youth class on Sunday and got to see the new "Come
Follow Me" curriculum in action. It was pretty cool. The youth took
turns teaching the class in companionships on different topics. One
laurel got up and was talking about how we learn from the spirit and she
couldn't hold back the tears her whole time up there. It was a really
good lesson for all who attended. Welp I gotta get running to meet up
with all the other missionaries at the stake center. I love you all and
miss you!
Love, Elder Peterson
The church is true!
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