Dear Family,
This has been a super good stellar week. Time is definitely flying by on the wings of lightning right now. I can't believe it is July already... just like everybody seems to be telling me at the moment. That is super sweet that you got to go to St George this week. It sounds like it is hotter in Utah than it is here in Iowa, even with the heat index here. It's suprisingly been not too bad here with the heat yet. After all of the rain we got I was expecting really bad humidity. Elder Blackburn still thought it was super humid so maybe i've just grown accustomed to it by now or something.
We had really good lessons with our investigators this week, but sadly none came to church yesterday :(. We had a church tour with Dianna. I always love doing church tours because it is just a really neat way to teach the restoration. I know that she felt the spirit. Dianna also gave us a couple of beds to give to Deanna, another one of our investigators. We dropped those off to her and taught her the plan of salvation. I don't know why she didn't come to church. Our next challenge with her is to help her stop smoking. We are having Anne, our recent convert, fellowship her since she had to recently quit smoking herself. And we had a great lesson with Anne's daughter Tabby. We had a lesson in the Bairs home and it was super sweet! We talked about faith and read from Alma 32. We had Tabby help herself realize that she is not sufficiently nourishing her faith tree. I thought for sure that would bring her to church, but we are going to have to be more patient with her. It's hard to be patient with people progressing when you know you are going to be gone soon though!
That's neat that you are going to the stadium of fire this year. Fort Dodge isn't doing any fireworks this year, not enough money to do them. We are going to a members house to have a barbeque with them on the fourth and am looking forward to that. Elder Blackburn and I are doing well and getting along. We went over to the Bairs and played some Settlers of Catan again this morning. I think that might be becoming a regular thing each week for us now. We just have to make sure to still be on our best behavior because we are playing with the Relief Society President and family haha. Building trust with her is of the upmost importance. She actually has given us a couple of people to go see this week so now we can report to her next week if we play. I haven't met President Jensen yet, but we have a zone conference tomorrow in Ames where we will go to meet him. I'm wondering if/what might be different in this zone conference compared to others. We have a new senior couple in our district who i met this week. They are from near Las Vegas and are really sweet. The Hayworths.
Any update on housing yet? I got your package last week. Thanks for all of the goodies! Snacks are actually very much appreciated! One of the members in our ward had his appendix burst on him this week. We paid him a visit in the hospital after church and he was doing just fine. We also heard that a companionship here in the IDMM was in a bad car accident late Friday night and one of them had to be life flighted to Des Moines. I don't have any updates on that story yet but hopefully by tomorrow we will hear some good news. Needless to say my list of people to pray for has gotten REALLY long and keeps getting longer over the years. I've really come to appreciate the power of prayer and how it really is just talking with a loving Heavenly Father.
I love all of you! Love,
Elder Peterson
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