I believe the saying here in Fort Dodge goes like this: April showers bring May snowstorms? We had a really nice day this last week. It was above 70 degrees so I was able to walk around in a short sleeve shirt and it felt great. But then that night a rain storm came quite quickly and drenched us as we walked the rest of the way home. It was cold. Also the next day we walked to the church which was about a good hour walk in the rain and it was really windy that day too. My forehead was numb by the time we got there. But we had an awesome lesson at the church. We taught Tabby and her Mom and the Jensens were there. Sis Jensen is the young women's president so it was good for her to meet Tabby and be able to be there for her. We set the date of May 25th for her baptism... but she ended up not coming to church this week so it is not officially her date yet. Then on Thursday we woke up to the sight you see in the picture I attached. SNOW! Man, in May too of all things. I think the official recording was 6 1/2 inches, but it was more than that in some places. We stayed in and weekly planned for a good chunk of the day. District meeting got cancelled and moved to Friday because of the storm.
We had a pretty crazy scene happen on Thursday. Elder Horkley and I were in our apartment weekly planning when all of a sudden we hear a bunch of screaming going on outside of our duplex. There was a lot of obscenities in the language so we knew it wasn't anything good that was happening. We looked out our window and saw these 2 guys in their cars yelling at this one guy on the other side of the street. Apparently he had cut them off while driving or something and they had almost gotten in an accident. I saw one of the 2 talking on the phone so I thought he was calling the police to come and get a report or something. The yelling was going on for about 15 minutes or so with just the three of them when it escalated to threatenings and they were trying to start a fight. That is when we locked our doors and started watching from the upstairs window through a small crack in our blinds so they couldn't see us watching them. Well long story short, they 2 guys had called in back up or something because all of a sudden like 5 cars pull up out of nowhere and a mob of like 30 people are then standing outside of our house on the other side of the street and the other guy runs into his house and his mom comes out and starts yelling at the mob. Then our other neighbor and her son come out and start yelling at them and I called the cops and reported the scene and they all scrambled when three units pulled up. They talked to some people and got statements and that was the end of that. Haven't had any trouble since then. It was pretty interesting to watch though.
How crazy that JD gets home this weekend. We set up our skype time. I will be able to skype at 5 o'clock PM Iowa time at a members house. So i'll call you then! I am looking forward to it. It will be really fun! We logged a lot of driving time this weekend. On Friday we drove to Hampton (about an hour away) for district meeting back and forth on Friday. Then on Friday night we drove down to Boone (about an hour away again) to spend the night with our zone leaders. On Saturday morning we got up at 4 in the morning to drive to Iowa City (about 3 30 hours away) to hear Elder Neil L. Andersen speak to us. It was a really great meeting. All 235 IDMM missionaries were seated in the same building. Elder L. Whitney Clayton of the Presidency of the 70 and Elder Dube from the first quorum of the 70 were also there. Elder Andersen talked mostly on the atonement. About strengthening our testimonies of it and inviting people to repent. He emphasized that God knows the end from the beginning. When he testified of the savior, there was no doubting he knew it was true. The only way to describe it is that it looked like he had actually physically seen Christ Himself. We all got to shake his hand at the beginning of the meeting and it was great. We got there early enough that we were able to snag third row seats which was pretty great. Then we drove back which was another 3 30 hour drive. More good news is that the sisters got a new car so we are no longer sharing. Wade- there weren't any jokes that i know of about us sharing. They did try to name the truck Mr. Thornton though. That was a fail on their part.
Today is a bright shiny day though and about 65 degrees already. Most of the snow is now melted. I didn't need my winter coat... i got by with sweaters and ear muffs. The church is true! Grandma and Grandpa Bob, Grandma and Grandpa Pete, Mark and Mindy, Lori, Steve Wright and fam I got your letters this week! Thank you so much for the birthday wishes! The other picture is Elder Horkley and I on a rail road track bridge that goes across a big chasm.
Love, Elder Peterson
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