Hello Family!
This has been a good week for us. We started up the new transfer by getting Elder Clarke to join our companionship. He is from Rigby Idaho. He is a really good Elder and is bold as a new missionary which i absolutely love. New missionaries now are definitely more prepared than ever before. We had 26 new missionaries come into the field which is our highest total yet. The transfer meeting was HUGE! We are not sure how long it will take to have Elder Clarke get his visa, but we are excited to have him for however long we can. I speak spanish with him sometimes and he'll speak back in portuguese. It kind of works. He teaches me some words in portuguese as well. He still gets an hour of language study each day so basically i get another hour of personally study which is nice somedays. But on the flip side we don't get out of the apartment to do work until 1:00 now. This is my third transfer staying in West Des Moines and after this one i'll have 3 left. I'm not sure what they will end up doing with me. It is just weird to think that I only have so much time left. It goes by too fast! I'm sure you know all about that mom and dad.
It has been really windy here the last couple of days. When we are out walking around you can't make phone calls because the people are guaranteed pretty much not to be able to hear a word you say... learned that from personal experience. We've been adjusting pretty well to having three people living in our apartment now instead of 2. We have a small kitchen is probably the hardest thing. During lunch and dinner we just have to take turns. Surprisingly we all still get to studies on time in the mornings.
We had a pretty sweet lesson with Kim this week. We actually taught her twice. The first time we gave her the Family proclamation to the world to read. Then when we went back 2 days later she had it all marked up and we answered her questions about it. It was such a good lesson and she is so sincere in investigating. The only sad part is that she left for South Dakota on Friday and then directly from there she is going to Colorado for a couple of weeks. We will be keeping in contact with her over the phone, but i wish she wasn't going to be gone for so long. That was way swell to hear about the Berg girls getting baptized!
One of my favorite scriptures that i've been thinking about lately is Omni 1:26
26 And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved.
I like to switch the last 2 words of be saved to "find new investigators" or "have progressing investigators" or something to that effect. Really as we offer our WHOLE souls as an offering, the Lord helps us in this work. And in our lives. I know these things to be true! I love you all!
Until next week. Love,
Elder Peterson
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