Hola familia,
Well as of today i've been out on my mission for 22 months. Time is flying by way too fast. It has been a great week this last week. The weather has been crazy! We had one day that was over 100 degrees. We've also had some rainy colder days. All that mixed together made for some good ole tornado watch weather. Yesterday as we were driving to an appointment we got a text from the weather alert people or whatever telling us to take take shelter now and that we were in a tornado watch. It was still partly sunny outside, but we could see some dark clouds in the distance so we turned around and went home. We were watching the sky and the clouds were moving very quickly, but they just blew right over us. The sirens did go off a couple of times though (once from a malfunction). It was kind of eerie, but it didn't even get that windy. We heard that the tornado touched down 4 miles away from Fort Dodge, but we don't actually get to watch the news or anything so i don't know if that is correct. The zone leaders ended up grounding us at around 7 30 that night though because of it.
We had 2 investigators at church on Sunday! Wahoo! Tabby was there with her family... thus making her officially on date to be baptized June 22nd now. Also a man named Breon came. We taught him at the library and I guess he came to general conference in October of last year. Well as the sacrament was being passed he leaned over to me on the pew and told me he had been thinking about being baptized since we invited him to be earlier that week. Well he leaned over and told me that it was a yes and that he wants to be. That was just a delight to hear. We will be setting a date with him this coming Thursday. They both only stayed for sacrament meeting this week, but that is a great start! We also picked up a new investigator this week named Taylor. She was a former investigator who stopped being taught because she spent too much time in the hospital? Well we went back to check up on her and were able to teach her the restoration right there on the spot and she wasn't able to make it to church this week because she was out of town, but she really wants to come this upcoming week. We have really been blessed this week and I am very grateful to God because of it.
This upcoming week we have a zone conference in Ames. The four missionaries who are serving right now in Fort Dodge are doing the musical number for it. We are singing 'How Great Thou Art!' It is actually pretty lucky that between the two sisters, Elder Horkley, and I we have all 4 parts so we can sing SATB for some of the versus. We practiced yesterday and actually sound pretty good. Welp, I hope everyone has a good week. I'm not sure if the library will be closed on Monday because of Memorial day or not, so you might be looking for my e-mail come Tuesday. I sure love all of you and know this that I know the church is true and that Joseph Smith really is a prophet of God and the prophet of the Restoration.
Love, Elder Peterson
Well as of today i've been out on my mission for 22 months. Time is flying by way too fast. It has been a great week this last week. The weather has been crazy! We had one day that was over 100 degrees. We've also had some rainy colder days. All that mixed together made for some good ole tornado watch weather. Yesterday as we were driving to an appointment we got a text from the weather alert people or whatever telling us to take take shelter now and that we were in a tornado watch. It was still partly sunny outside, but we could see some dark clouds in the distance so we turned around and went home. We were watching the sky and the clouds were moving very quickly, but they just blew right over us. The sirens did go off a couple of times though (once from a malfunction). It was kind of eerie, but it didn't even get that windy. We heard that the tornado touched down 4 miles away from Fort Dodge, but we don't actually get to watch the news or anything so i don't know if that is correct. The zone leaders ended up grounding us at around 7 30 that night though because of it.
We had 2 investigators at church on Sunday! Wahoo! Tabby was there with her family... thus making her officially on date to be baptized June 22nd now. Also a man named Breon came. We taught him at the library and I guess he came to general conference in October of last year. Well as the sacrament was being passed he leaned over to me on the pew and told me he had been thinking about being baptized since we invited him to be earlier that week. Well he leaned over and told me that it was a yes and that he wants to be. That was just a delight to hear. We will be setting a date with him this coming Thursday. They both only stayed for sacrament meeting this week, but that is a great start! We also picked up a new investigator this week named Taylor. She was a former investigator who stopped being taught because she spent too much time in the hospital? Well we went back to check up on her and were able to teach her the restoration right there on the spot and she wasn't able to make it to church this week because she was out of town, but she really wants to come this upcoming week. We have really been blessed this week and I am very grateful to God because of it.
This upcoming week we have a zone conference in Ames. The four missionaries who are serving right now in Fort Dodge are doing the musical number for it. We are singing 'How Great Thou Art!' It is actually pretty lucky that between the two sisters, Elder Horkley, and I we have all 4 parts so we can sing SATB for some of the versus. We practiced yesterday and actually sound pretty good. Welp, I hope everyone has a good week. I'm not sure if the library will be closed on Monday because of Memorial day or not, so you might be looking for my e-mail come Tuesday. I sure love all of you and know this that I know the church is true and that Joseph Smith really is a prophet of God and the prophet of the Restoration.
Love, Elder Peterson
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