Dear Family,
It has been a wonderful week. Although it was quite slow missionary wise we still got a lot of good done. I came down with the latest and greatest illness that's been going around the mission. My right ear has been plugged, along with a small sore throat and miner cough, for about the last 3 days and it's kind of annoying but now that it's p-day I can go get medicine to help with that. Yesterday we had stake conference. It was a surprise that we had a broadcast from salt lake city that was going out to stakes in 9 states in the mid west. The speakers were Craig C. Christensen from the presidency of the seventy, Linda S. Reeves from the RS, Larry Echo Hawk, and Dallin H. Oaks. It was super neat to here from an apostle of the Lord specifically speaking to the people just of the midwest. He talked about the increase of missionaries and the need it is going to place on member missionary work. He talked about four steps that will help members help the missionaries. 1. Pray for missionary opportunities and to be instruments in the Lord's hands. 2. Talk with your friends about religion. 3. Offer reading material. and 4. invite your friends to come to church. We have been working with members a lot already about these things and now to have it reaffirmed to them by an apostle will hopefully hasten their urgency in getting their friends interested in the true gospel of Jesus Christ. I also got to see some of my friends from the Lenox Branch at stake conference and that was fun as well. They actually broadcast it now down to the lenox church building house, but Brother Lambson was at the stake center so I got to talk with him for a little while and catch up on how the branch is doing.
83 degrees sounds like a dream. It has been snowy here and we are supposed to get another snow storm tonight into tomorrow morning. Just more shoveling opportunities for us! What kind of activities is the mutual doing for missionary month? It is hard to narrow the top three things of a missionary but I think my top three things would have been finishers, accountable, and grateful/prayerful. I guess that's more like 4 things. There was a great talk given by President Thomas S. Monson in the June 1989 Ensign first Presidency message entitled "Finisher's Wanted" which is where i get the finisher from. It is a great talk and i encourage you to look it up on lds.org. It talks about the 6 marks of a finisher. Vision, Effort, Faith, Virtue, Courage, Prayer.
We got in contact with Kirk again recently. We actually went out to eat lunch with him this week at a place called Hu Hot. It's a really good mongolian grill. We mostly just went as friends because he is still not interested in accepting the gospel at this time in his life but it was good to keep a good relationship going with him. He is trying to sub lease out his apartment and we told him that whoever takes it it should be a requirement that they have to meet with us at least 3 times. He just laughed about it but some of the people had asked about the people that live there and he mentioned that "awesome mormon missionaries live here."
Charles is lost to us right now. He moved out of his apartment because his lease was up and now he is in a motel looking for an apartment. We gave him some applications to apartments in West Des Moines but we have yet to hear from him. Hopefully this week we can get back in contact with him and learn just where he is and where either we can visit him or where we can send more missionaries to go visit him. We heard that a Chicago West mission is being opened and that may or may not take some of our mission boundaries, but that is just rumor i have heard. The church is true, the book is blue, and i love all of you!
Love, Elder Peterson
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