Dear Family,
My ankle is doing great. I can't really tell at all that it got hurt at this point... except for the fact that I can't jump as high anymore. That is way cool that Sister Wright and elder Fullmer are in the same mission. I don't know who the other elder from our stake is serving here. I have probably run into him at some point in time. Do you remember what his name is and how long he has been serving? It is always fun to see old friends. I got an e-mail from Everett today. He is home now! Visa waiters in the mission is not an irregular thing. I think maybe they send them to this mission just because we are so awesome! My new companion is Elder Mark Olson. He is from Orland, CA. About 30 minutes from chico. Kevin Atkin and Fred Olson are his uncle and grandpa... don't know if you know them or not Greg but he says you might. He has been out serving in the mission field for 4 months and this is his second area. He just came from Iowa City. The other elders in our ward are Elders Wright and Lewis. EW has been out for 6 months and he is training EL, who is an 18 year old missionary. We have a really young district now. I am the oldest missionary in it. We have one other missionary who has been out for 18 months and he is training and then another 6 month old missionary training. It's really different to me. I'm the "veteran" of the bunch i guess you could say. It just freaks me out.
I did indeed wear a green tie to church yesterday. I had forgotten that it was St Patricks day, but on Saturday night Elder Olson and I got invited to an irish drinking party for the holiday to which we had to decline. But we did give the host of the party mormon.org cards to hand out to all of his friends who were coming. We need to go check up on that. Check out this story. Elder Olson and I were checking up on potentials in an apartment complex and we saw these 2 guys standing around in the little outdoor basketball court they have there. We struck up a conversation with them and they asked us if we went to college and we told them no, we are missionaries. We invited them to learn more about our church and you could tell they were going to say no, but trying to be polite about it. So I invited them to a game of H-O-R-S-E and if they lost then they would have to listen to our message. They accepted and we smoked them. We had an H and they lost. So we sat down on the court right there and taught them. There named are Corey and Tryston. They are step brothers and seniors in high school. They were actually really sincere when we got going and we invited them to be baptized and they said yes. We are going back on Thursday to teach them the plan of salvation. The coolest part was that we kneeled down on the basketball court and they offered up a prayer and the spirit was really strong. I attribute our winning that game of horse to Romans 8:31 (with the JST). The weather has been pretty nice this last week. It actually got up into the 50's for a couple of days. But then it snowed last night and this morning.
We also found 2 other sweet investigators. They live with someone who apparently is already a member of the church and lived in Lenox for a little while. I didn't know him. But he introduced them to the church and we just found them in that same apartment complex as the basketball guys. We taught them the restoration and they also fed us dinner. A chicken stuffed with steak and shrimp. Topped with portabello mushrooms and some delicious sauce. (he went to culinary school for several years.) He also made this super huge and delicious chocolate cake with bananas for dessert. Tiffany and Kitara accepted the invitation to be baptized and they even came to church yesterday and stayed for the whole 3 hours! The only foreseeable problem with them is that they all live in the same apartment. 2 guys and 2 girls. but we will make sure they see that true happiness comes from keeping the commandments of God. Just like in Mosiah 2:41.
We only had one transfer get shortened to a 5 weeker. That was this last transfer. The rest will be 6 weeks from here on out. i was in charge of splitting the ward. I just made it a straight line (easier for the mission office people). I made a second area book for the other elders and we weekly planned together so i could tell them about the investigators that are now in there area and a little about the members and such too. We are looking forward to another good week this week. We won't have the car this week and it's supposed to be cold, but we will make it work. Or rather we will do all we can and the Lord will make up all the rest. I love you all!
Until next week,
Elder Peterson
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