Hey there family,
I sure do remember the Bradley's! That is way cool that you were able to see them again. We have had a busy week here. We have had a lot of rain this last week. Cold rain too, but anyway it has caused quite a bit of flooding. We have spent a lot of time doing service. In fact we got a forwarded message from our mission president that we could take as much time as we wanted to do service this week because of all of the flooding. We have one river running through town, the Des Moines river, and it is very full. Up past it's banks. Our little duplex did not flood at all though so we don't have to worry about our house we can just help with other peoples. it's pretty warm and sunny today though so that is nice. For memorial day yesterday we did have one barbeque over at the church with several families in the ward. Since it was our p-day we got to stay longer and play games with them as well. We tossed the football around for a while and played some settlers of Catan. Then we grilled up some burgers and brats.
Whenever i hear about who is graduating this year or who is on missions it just blows my mind. They don't seem old enough to be doing those things! I guess i just forget that i'm 21 years old now. I heard from Cody Buxton last week and he is doing well. He was telling me about all of the little buddies we used to hang out with and how they are all on missions now too. Now it is just weird that all of us are coming home soon... or are already home.
We met a less active man miraculously this week. His name is Jim. He is off of our records, but ever since we first saw him he has wanted to become active again in the church now. He too has Chron's and it has been bugging him. He is refusing to go to the hospital though... stubborn Iowans. We've met with him a couple of times and since then he has gotten his job back and has almost quit drinking entirely now. We still have to get him to completely quit drinking and to quit smoking, but one step at a time. He has met the bishop and they are meeting fairly regularly. I see so much potential in this man. He was baptized when he was 8 years old (he's 50 now) but he never made it through the aaronic priesthood or anything. His aunt and uncle are members of the church and he is back in contact with them now and he suprisingly has retained a lot of the knowledge over the years. He already wants to start paying tithing and we weren't even the ones to bring it up to him. He just knew that that is what you are supposed to do with your money and he credits God for helping him get his job back so he wants to pay his tithing.
Oh! We also had a zone conference this last week on Wednesday in Ames. I almost forgot to write about this. The musical number went really good as far as I can tell. President Jergensen told us the good news that they are going to do one more zone conference round next transfer before they leave. It was good to see President Danielson again who lives in Story City and is the stake president. It was kind of full cirlce for me. My first and last zone conferences were in Ames.
Tabby is still doing well and is set to be baptized on the 22nd of June. We get transfer calls this Saturday and we'll find out if Elder Horkley is leaving or not. I guess there is always the possibility that i will be transferred again, but that is highly unlikely. Honestly I could see it going either way of EH leaving or staying. Well all I can think of recently is that when you are in the service of your fellow beings you are only in the service of your God. We helped this one lady clear out her basement and really left an impression on her. She told us that she will never forget us and she tried to pay us money but of course we declined. She firmly believed that you couldn't find any decent people left in the world, so we really made her happy. We have also been able to grow closer to ward members through service, especially helping the Whitehills after their house burned down. Service is great and i'm thankful for the good health and spiritual sustanance from God to be able to help His children.
Love, Elder Peterson
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