Hello hello family dearest
We had a great Easter Sunday here in West Des Moines. We had a great sacrament meeting. It was our fast and testimony meeting because of conference next week. We had a lot of good testimonies born about our Savior Jesus Christ. We also had a lot of less active members and such come out of the woodwork to come to church. Ironically, none of the less active members we specifically invited to come and said they would didn't show, but ones that we didn't ask were there. It was good to see a full chapel though. We also had quite a few investigators at church as well from both of us sets of missionaries. Sarah was at church again and just loves it. She is really happy now. She announced in the combined RS, HP, and elders meeting (because of the 5th sunday) that she was being baptized on the 20th so that's pretty much going to happen. Also Lindsay and the rest of her family were there for sacrament meeting as well. We were really stuffed with the spirit... and food! After church we went to the Gales and had a turkey Easter feast. Then we went straight from there to a less actives family get together and had crescent sandwiches. Then we had like an hour break so we went and visited Amber and her boyfriend who was in town for the weekend. Then we went to Lindsay's and had a ham dinner with her family. Lots of good food and fellowship. We also dropped by the Churchill's at night because they had some extra dessert for us to pick up. A very delicious day.
We reached our zone baptismal goal of 10 for the month of March so we will be getting another zone p-day again. That will be fun. This man named Nelson was baptized by our zone leaders and we brought Sarah to come watch. She was going to be out of town this weekend but she called us on Friday and told us that it turns out she wasn't leaving so we invited her to the baptism that next day and she came. She said she was very glad to be able to see what would be happening to her. The spirit was really strong and what impressed me was that after Nelson was baptized, immediately he clasped his hands together and said a short silent prayer of gratitude in the baptismal font. What a wonderful gift we have all been given to be baptized and be born again. And every week we have that same privilege when we partake of the sacrament worthily.
I got a package from the Easter bunny. That was very nice of him and the candy is delicious. We were chosen to hide the eggs for the Easter egg hunt that the less active family, the Robinsons, was putting on. They had a lot of eggs and it was fun to watch all of the little kids go and kill each other over them. Ha. There were plenty for each of them so the fighting was minimal. It's getting cold again here for this week. I think it just likes to be cold for the weeks that we don't have the car. I have been able to go and look at my application for BYUI. I filled out the essays and President Jergensen did the ecclesiastical endorsement with me Sunday night so we should be good to go when we get the Seminary and Institute thing figured out. Also there were some questions at the bottom of step 7 about parents education levels and families estimated income for the year and I wasn't sure what to put so you might want to fill those in for me.
One study technique that I have been doing lately with the scriptures is going through and writing down all of the questions that I can find. In Luke chapter 23 it talks about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and asks a very good question. The angel asks Mary: "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" Are we seeking the living Christ who is alive and well and wants to help us? Or our we just saying wrote prayers and not looking for His hand in our lives... essentially seeking a dead Christ? And on the flip side our we spiritually alive that we can feel promptings and be sought out as tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father or are we spiritually dead? I know that Christ lives and because He lives we too will live again.
Love, Elder Peterson
We reached our zone baptismal goal of 10 for the month of March so we will be getting another zone p-day again. That will be fun. This man named Nelson was baptized by our zone leaders and we brought Sarah to come watch. She was going to be out of town this weekend but she called us on Friday and told us that it turns out she wasn't leaving so we invited her to the baptism that next day and she came. She said she was very glad to be able to see what would be happening to her. The spirit was really strong and what impressed me was that after Nelson was baptized, immediately he clasped his hands together and said a short silent prayer of gratitude in the baptismal font. What a wonderful gift we have all been given to be baptized and be born again. And every week we have that same privilege when we partake of the sacrament worthily.
I got a package from the Easter bunny. That was very nice of him and the candy is delicious. We were chosen to hide the eggs for the Easter egg hunt that the less active family, the Robinsons, was putting on. They had a lot of eggs and it was fun to watch all of the little kids go and kill each other over them. Ha. There were plenty for each of them so the fighting was minimal. It's getting cold again here for this week. I think it just likes to be cold for the weeks that we don't have the car. I have been able to go and look at my application for BYUI. I filled out the essays and President Jergensen did the ecclesiastical endorsement with me Sunday night so we should be good to go when we get the Seminary and Institute thing figured out. Also there were some questions at the bottom of step 7 about parents education levels and families estimated income for the year and I wasn't sure what to put so you might want to fill those in for me.
One study technique that I have been doing lately with the scriptures is going through and writing down all of the questions that I can find. In Luke chapter 23 it talks about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and asks a very good question. The angel asks Mary: "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" Are we seeking the living Christ who is alive and well and wants to help us? Or our we just saying wrote prayers and not looking for His hand in our lives... essentially seeking a dead Christ? And on the flip side our we spiritually alive that we can feel promptings and be sought out as tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father or are we spiritually dead? I know that Christ lives and because He lives we too will live again.
Love, Elder Peterson
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