Hello Family!
With Monday being a holiday the libraries were closed and yesterday we had a zone conference so we weren't able to e-mail that day either. But today we now have the time to e-mail. It has been a good week here. We hear that we are supposed to get between 7-10 inches of snow tomorrow so i'm not too excited about that. We have an appointment kind of far away that night so we have been prepping ourselves to be able to trek there through the snow. The original forecast was 12-20 inches though so it has gone down some in terms of quantity. Zone conference went really well. I'll talk about that a little later towards the end of my e-mail when i leave a spiritual aspect though. I got your Valentine's day package madre and padre. Thank you very much! Those cookies were very delicious and the Russian candy is good too.
We were able to get in contact with quite a few of our investigators this week that previously we had trouble contacting. We also had 2 investigators at church on Sunday! it felt so great after going a while without anyone showing up which was frustrating. The liberian family that we are teaching, the Bowah's, are now officially on date to be baptized on March 30th now that they have come to church. We also had a 13 year old boy named Matthew who is not a member, but his parents are, come to church. We will be setting a baptismal date with him as soon as we meet with him next. I know what Braden means when he talks about Africans being really receptive to the gospel and also hard to get a hold of. In the Des Moines area most of the baptisms are people from Africa. Not so much in our ward... yet... but in the Des Moines ward they are having way good success with Liberians. That is neat that you (mom and dad) are doing so much volunteer work at the MTC now. I'm sure you are such a great help to all of those that you come in contact with. I remember what really made me excited about missionary work more than anything else was teaching in the TRC. Specifically a man named Ciccio, i don't know if he is still there or not.
One of the things that I really liked about zone conference this past week was a saying that went something like this: The good that you do will do you no good unless your heart is in the right place... unless you have charity. It talks about this in 1 Corinthians 13. The whole chapter is great but one of my favorite verses is 3 "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." If we don't have charity when we perform service, people will stell be fed and the poor benefit from it, but we do not. Love is what makes all the difference. I can say that I have truly come to love the people here in Iowa and I have a desire to serve them. I know that this church is true and that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father have a perfect love for us and want to serve us.
Love, Elder Peterson
February 11, 2013
Hello Family!
This has been a good week for us. We started up the new transfer by getting Elder Clarke to join our companionship. He is from Rigby Idaho. He is a really good Elder and is bold as a new missionary which i absolutely love. New missionaries now are definitely more prepared than ever before. We had 26 new missionaries come into the field which is our highest total yet. The transfer meeting was HUGE! We are not sure how long it will take to have Elder Clarke get his visa, but we are excited to have him for however long we can. I speak spanish with him sometimes and he'll speak back in portuguese. It kind of works. He teaches me some words in portuguese as well. He still gets an hour of language study each day so basically i get another hour of personally study which is nice somedays. But on the flip side we don't get out of the apartment to do work until 1:00 now. This is my third transfer staying in West Des Moines and after this one i'll have 3 left. I'm not sure what they will end up doing with me. It is just weird to think that I only have so much time left. It goes by too fast! I'm sure you know all about that mom and dad.
It has been really windy here the last couple of days. When we are out walking around you can't make phone calls because the people are guaranteed pretty much not to be able to hear a word you say... learned that from personal experience. We've been adjusting pretty well to having three people living in our apartment now instead of 2. We have a small kitchen is probably the hardest thing. During lunch and dinner we just have to take turns. Surprisingly we all still get to studies on time in the mornings.
We had a pretty sweet lesson with Kim this week. We actually taught her twice. The first time we gave her the Family proclamation to the world to read. Then when we went back 2 days later she had it all marked up and we answered her questions about it. It was such a good lesson and she is so sincere in investigating. The only sad part is that she left for South Dakota on Friday and then directly from there she is going to Colorado for a couple of weeks. We will be keeping in contact with her over the phone, but i wish she wasn't going to be gone for so long. That was way swell to hear about the Berg girls getting baptized!
One of my favorite scriptures that i've been thinking about lately is Omni 1:26
26 And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved.
I like to switch the last 2 words of be saved to "find new investigators" or "have progressing investigators" or something to that effect. Really as we offer our WHOLE souls as an offering, the Lord helps us in this work. And in our lives. I know these things to be true! I love you all!
Until next week. Love,
Elder Peterson
February 3, 2013
Dear Family,
It has been a week of ups and downs this week. The mission has
taught me well just to focus on the ups though and looking back that's
really all i can remember from the past year and a half. Most of our
investigators were dogging us this week. Sunday morning we went and
personally visited all of them before church to tell them they needed to
come and hold the ones who said they would come accountable.
Unfortunately, none came. We also had to drop Kirk this week. He just
isn't progressing and he says the church just isn't for him right now.
On the bright side though, we definitely influenced him and he
acknowledges that. He prays now and he never used to. He believes in
Christianity once again. As our purpose of "inviting others to come
unto Christ" we have succeeded with him. Just no baptism. I'm sure
eventually in the future he will be baptized though. We are still good
friends and see him pretty often since he just lives down the hall from
us.
The best up of this week is that we had a baptism this Saturday of
Hope. That is Amber's (recent convert) daughter. Elder Dyer baptized
her and I confirmed her. There was a sweet spirit at her baptism. A
lot of ward members showed up to support her which is great. My
favorite thing she said was the person who was talking to her about
baptism and the holy ghost asked her what would happen to her after she
was baptized and Hope said "I'll be wet." Haha he was looking for
confirmed. The other picture is that we also had a pretty good sized
snow storm this week. It was really cold walking around (had to walk
because cars were grounded). With the wind chill it got down to -20...
enough to make your face go numb after just a minute or two. The good
thing about it is that people were more willing to let us in... when
they opened the door. Some would just look outside and tell us it was
too cold.
This week we got our transfer calls. Elder Dyer and I are actually
going to be staying together for another transfer! We were really
suprised when we got the call. We are also getting a third missionary.
A visa waiter who is going to go to Brazil once he gets his visa. He
will probably be with us for the whole transfer though. This next
transfer is only 5 weeks instead of 6. I am technically called to be
his trainer, but it is a joint effort by both Elder Dyer and myself to
train him until he gets to Brazil. No one in our district is getting
transfered, but another 2 companionships are getting visa waiters. That
will put our district at 13 missionaries. It is going to be fun. One
of the missionary companionships who is getting a visa waiter is our car
share, so now when we pick each other up to go to district meetings and
such we will be squishing 6 missionaries into the car. President just
told us to be careful and not to kill ourselves.
Another investigator we had, Dylan, we had to drop. We had high
hopes for him. He definitely had a LOT to overcome, but we thought we
could help him out. He also attended a baptism that some missionaries
had. But he stole some stuff again and got in trouble with the law and
skipped town so we aren't meeting with him anymore. My ankle is doing
good and i'm doing my stretches and exercises every day to get it
stronger and looser again.
My scripture highlights of the week come from:
Psalms 118: 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
and
and
Alma 26: 35 Now have we not reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto you, there never were men that had so great reason to rejoice as we, since the world began;
yea, and my joy is carried away, even unto boasting in my God; for he
has all power, all wisdom, and all understanding; he comprehendeth all
things, and he is a merciful Being, even unto salvation, to those who
will repent and believe on his name.
bolded for emphasis. But it is true that we have great reason to
rejoice and be happy every day. We determine ourselves whether we will
be happy or not, not our external circumstances. I can honestly say
that I am happy every single day. I know that this gospel is truth. It
is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It brings lasting happiness that can
linger and grow for eternity. I love you all!
Love, Elder Peterson
January 28, 2013
Dear Family,
Great news! I'm officially out
of the boot! woot. We went to the hospital this morning and the doctor
told me that I healed up quite nicely. I'm just really tight so he
gave me stretches to do and a sweeto brace to wear for a couple of weeks
and while i'm doing activites and such. Our district leader also came
with and got checked out and now he is in a boot for the next 6 weeks.
We'll see who else in our district needs one in 6 weeks time. We
haven't heard anything about them outlawing basketball yet, but we'll
see what happens. I don't think they will... at least not for a little
while yet still. The weather has been pretty dramatic lately. In fact
they even cancelled church yesterday because of it. We just got an ice
storm Saturday night so everything just pretty much had like a tenth of
an inch of ice all over the place. Driving was a no go so they had to
cancel church. Also we couldn't really go anywhere, but by noon it was
more slush and water because of the warmer temps so we got to do quite a
bit by the end of the day. We actually set 5 baptismal dates
yesterday. All of them for March. 3 with a liberian family and 2 with a
members neighbors who we started teaching. We also picked up 6 new
investigators this week and the work is going swimmingly. Lots of
things to be happy about. Today the weather is super foggy and there
has just kind of been a mist in the air for the last 2 days. Not super
cold though.
So the liberian family we are teaching is sweet. They
understand English real good but they talk to each other in Liberian (or
whatever the language is called) then ask us the question in English.
The father is super interested and the wife as well. They have a son
who is a senior in high school and he hasn't been as interested in the
gospel, but he always participates in our lessons. Well last night when
we were teaching them he really opened up and we really showed him how
he could be blessed from the gospel and just had a sweet lesson. As we
were leaving the wife told us that we need to hurry up and baptize
Charles (the husband) so that he can change and change his mind about
deciding to marry her. So we learned they aren't married and we just
laughed and we'll cover that problem next time we are there.
We also met with our friend Dave Maxwell this week. He
is our friend that plays the bass at the hope lutheran church and we
went and saw him that one saturday night. Well we taught him the
restoration and it really clicked with him. Unfortunately for us his
wife is fairly anti i guess. She realizes that us going to their church
was basically just so we could get a foot in the door and talk with
them about our faith. She didn't like that. But Dave realizes that
everything will change if he gets an answer to his prayer that the
church is true, and frankly it scares him because it doesn't really put
him a good situation right now family wise. He is such a great guy
though and would make a great member of the church. We are waiting to
hear back from him over the phone to see where to go next with this
because we don't even really know what is going to happen here.
Our ward has 2 youth classes. An older one and a
younger one. i think the age line is 16 or something like that. Our
youth also combine with the spanish branch so they get some more youth
from there. I heard from Clayton around Christmas. He is just lost in
life right now and a mission isn't looking good. He was moving down to
St George to live with Torrie at the start of this year to work down
there. He went to a year of school at USU and now is moving down south i
guess.
I know that this church is true! The gospel blesses
families and i'm so greatful for the wonderful family that i have. I
have definitely seen the blessings in my own life and in my own family
from this gospel.
Love, Elder Peterson
January 21, 2013
Dear Family,
This has been a great week. I
do only have one week left in the boot now. This district must just be
bad luck because our district leader, Elder Cutler, hurt his ankle
pretty bad last monday playing basketball. He is on crutches and his
ankle is swollen up. He hasn't been allowed to go see a doctor yet so he
doesn't have a boot or anything. It doesn't look quite as bad as mine
was though. We have a zone p-day today with the Des Moines and
Oskaloosa zones combined. It is going to be a lot of missionaries in
the stake center. I'm not exactly sure what we are to be doing, i've
just been told it will be fun-ness. I might just be warming the bench
with Elder Cutler but we'll see. The weather has been crazy here this
week. 2 days ago it got up to 60 degrees and today we came outside and
it is 1 degree. It snowed yesterday and we spent our Elder's quorom
lesson time shoveling the snow on the church grounds. We are expected
to get snow flurries all this week. Hopefully i can stay healthy
through the cold weather. Thank you for the tips on keeping warm
mother. For some reason I had just decided not to/forgot to wear
thermals so my legs were cold but everything else was fine. Thanks for
the updates on who all is leaving on Missions. That is pretty crazy to
see that people like Sean Weitzel are old enough to serve missions now!
But i guess with the age reduction it makes sense. Wade mentioned that
Ben Swenson just gave his farewell. Where is he going to?
Things with Kirk have been going interesting. We
taught him inside the homes of 2 members this week and we re set his
baptismal date for in February. He seemed like he was doing really
well. But then after we got out of all of our meetings we had on Sunday
we didn't see him at church so we asked him if he was still coming and
he said that he wasn't because he didn't have a good feeling. We have
gone through this once before with him so hopefully we can turn him
around again. We weren't able to meet with him last night either
because he was busy doing snow removal for his job. On the upside we
picked up 9 new investigators this past week! That is a new record for
me. And none of them are single people either haha. 3 are a family
from Liberia, 2 from Kenya, 1 from Dominican Republic and the rest are
american. We are keeping ourselves quite busy with this expansion into
our teaching pool. It is a good story of how we met Leena (the
dominican republic lady) and her husband JD. We called up a priest in
our ward that morning and asked him to come on splits with us because we
needed to go see a single lady and needed another man to come with us.
We went and picked him up and she wasn't home so we tried some other
people and they weren't home either. We still had about an hour and
change before he had to be back home so we tried this less active man
that the bishop asked to go see and he wasn't home either, but no
suprise there. We did feel like we needed to knock on his neighbors
doors though. We knock the first and it's an older man who tells us
that we can't solicit here and he's really not interested. Then the
second door was Leena and she let us right in. It worked out great
because we wouldn't have been able to go in if we didn't have Chad with
us. Then while we were teaching her, her husband came home from work
early that day for "some reason". He joined in on the discussion and
they were both pretty excepting.
In other news, Amber's daughter Hope is getting
baptized on Feb 2. Amber is our recent convert who was baptized on Dec
1. Hope has asked me to confirm her so that is pretty exciting. We
also went back and ate at the same members house where we think we got
food poisoning from... and we are still alive! No food poisoning this
time. We went to the youth class on Sunday and got to see the new "Come
Follow Me" curriculum in action. It was pretty cool. The youth took
turns teaching the class in companionships on different topics. One
laurel got up and was talking about how we learn from the spirit and she
couldn't hold back the tears her whole time up there. It was a really
good lesson for all who attended. Welp I gotta get running to meet up
with all the other missionaries at the stake center. I love you all and
miss you!
Love, Elder Peterson
The church is true!
January 14, 2013
Dear Family,
This has been quite the interesting week. It's been a lot colder
lately. On Saturday Elder Dyer and I were out finding for 5 hours
because we didn't have any set appointments and my thighs were frozen by
the time we got home! We ended up coming home just a little early
because my ankle had had enough of walking by the end of the day. We
did find some very kind people who let us in from the cold for a short
time. One guy named Richard let us in and we invited him to church to
which he said he would come, but when we called him Sunday morning he
decided that he didn't want to come anymore. On Sunday we did have a
less-active fellow named Tim Fife come to church though. He is someone
we have been working with for a while now. He is a super nice guy, he
would do anything for you service wise. We didn't have the car this
week and on Sunday morning the thought popped into my head that we
needed to call Tim and ask him for a ride to church, so i followed the
prompting i received. He said he would take us and we invited him to
stay with us for sacrament meeting to which he did! That was exciting.
I have been in the boot now for 4 weeks and i still have another 2
to go. I am counting down the days. It's kind of sad because President
Jergensen has allowed us to have a zone p-day to which we are having
ours with one of my old zones as well on the 21st so i don't know how
much i'll be able to participate depending on what we end up doing. I
do not recall going to that morningside with Jon Bytheway, but i know
that talk that you are referring to. The war chapters talk... it's a
good one. We met a pretty sweet part member family this week named the
Schafers. The husband is a member and the wife is not. They have a 6
year old daughter. The husband really wants to come back into activity
and wants to baptize his daughter next april so we are going to be
working with him for a while. Plus we will be teaching his wife now and
hopefully he can baptize her as well. That would be swell.
I was studying up on faith a little bit this week and spent quite
some time in Hebrews chapter 11. It's kind of like the Ether chapter 12
of the book of mormon. It just gives a lot of examples of faith that
people/prophets have had. One that stood out to me was the example of
Moses.
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches
than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of
the reward.
What a great example that Moses set by preferring to suffer
affliction with the people of God rather than enjoying the pleasures of
sin for a season. He knew where true happiness came from, through his
faith. Sure sin may bring some temporary pleasure, but long lasting
happiness comes from having faith in Jesus Christ, repenting, baptism,
Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. The
reproach of Christ means that he would rather suffer shame or punishment
for Christ and stand as a witness of Him in all things than have all
the riches of Egypt. Just something i've been thinking about lately :)
Love, Elder Peterson
January 7, 2013
Hello hello Family!
It has been another good week as a missionary. We started off the new year by having interviews with President Jergensen. It went great and I always love having interviews with him. We were asked before we came to have set goals for ourselves. As I was praying about them, I felt the need to set the goal to get 12 baptisms before I come home. I will have to work very hard to get this goal, but it is now a commandment because it came from the Lord. We've had some cool stories happen this week. We saw this man and his friend stuck on the side of the road so we stopped to help him. His name is Damion and he had I guess been sitting on the side of the road for 5 hours and nobody had stopped to help. We called a member who had some jumper cables and he came to help. Also while he was there, some other members drove by and stopped to help. We got his car started and he only made it a couple three blocks before it died again. We were following him though so we just had to push his car onto a less busy road and while we were doing that another member drove by and offered to help so he now really thinks highly of the members of our church. We gave him a BoM and told him to read it and pray about it. He lives out of our area, so we gave him the other missionaries phone number. A cop also drove by and stopped to take over the situation so we left.
Things with Kirk this week have been interesting. We taught him the Word of Wisdom on Wednesday and it went swell. He committed to live it, and he is a party-er so we were really impressed with his faith. I wish he could look back and see where he started when we first met him to where he is now. He has changed so much. We had scheduled with him to take us to church again, even though we had the car, so we could make sure that he went. On Sunday we knocked on his door and he told us that he had some good news and that he had some bad news. The good news was that he could still take us to church but the bad news was that he wasn't going to stay. We asked him why not and he said because he had been praying about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and had gotten some weird feelings that didn't really sit right with him. He couldn't really describe the feelings when we asked him about them though. They weren't the feelings he had experienced before when he had been praying. On our ride over to church we helped him convince himself that he needed to stay for at least sacrament meeting, and he did! We told him to come listen to the testimonies of those who had come to know that the book of mormon was true and that Joseph Smith really was a prophet. The ward really delivered too. There were a lot of testimonies born on Joseph Smith and we know Kirk felt the spirit. He told us that he still wanted to meet with us that night. We actually had other plans, but we set up for Tuesday night.
Sunday all of our appointments fell through. It was stacked up to be a sweet day too. We had lessons planned with 2 new investigators and we had a member family coming with us to teach Layton and we were going to set a baptismal date with her for Feb 16th. But none of these people were home or met us where they were supposed to. However since our plans opened up we decided to go see Kirk and we watched Joseph Smith:Prophet of the Restoration with him. I think it really helped him and we are still going to teach him on Tuesday in a members home, the Bruins (who we spent Christmas Eve with). New Year's Eve was fun. We went to a members home around 6 and had dinner and drank some Martinelli's before coming in at 9 and being asleep by 10:30. I think I woke up at 12 to some pot banging, but i didn't check the clock before rolling over and just falling back asleep. That is super sweet to hear about Rachael's baby! Some pictures would also be super sweet ;)
It's been getting warmer lately and the snow is starting to melt. We still have a lot though. I've been reading through Our Heritage again and I came across this quote that I really liked. James S. Brown, who was a member of the mormon battallion said this when he was in California right before the gold rush and right after they got honorably discharged. "I have never seen that rich spot of earth since; nor do I regret it, for there always has been a higher object before me than gold. ... Some may think we were blind to our own interests; but after more than forty years we look back without regrets, although we did see fortunes in the land, and had many inducements to stay. People said, 'Here is gold on the bedrock, gold on the hills, gold in the rills, gold everywhere,... and soon you can make an independent fortune.' We could realize all that. Still duty called, our honor was at stake, we had covenanted with each other, there was a principle involved; for with us it was God and His kingdom first. We had friends and relatives in the wilderness, yea, in an untried, desert land, and who knew their condition? We did not. So it was duty before pleasure, before wealth, and with this prompting we rolled out." I was thinking about what the "gold" of life can be and what we all give up in order to build up the kingdom of God. Right now I feel like there has been a lot that I have given up to come out on a mission, but what we receive in return to being obedient to our duty as members of this church is by far greater than anything we may have to give up. There are people in this world who are wandering around not being able to find the truth because they know not where to find it. And I am here to help them find it. So it is duty before school, work, girls, music, etc etc. I love this church with all my heart and i know that it is true. So let's all live it!
Love, Elder Peterson
It has been another good week as a missionary. We started off the new year by having interviews with President Jergensen. It went great and I always love having interviews with him. We were asked before we came to have set goals for ourselves. As I was praying about them, I felt the need to set the goal to get 12 baptisms before I come home. I will have to work very hard to get this goal, but it is now a commandment because it came from the Lord. We've had some cool stories happen this week. We saw this man and his friend stuck on the side of the road so we stopped to help him. His name is Damion and he had I guess been sitting on the side of the road for 5 hours and nobody had stopped to help. We called a member who had some jumper cables and he came to help. Also while he was there, some other members drove by and stopped to help. We got his car started and he only made it a couple three blocks before it died again. We were following him though so we just had to push his car onto a less busy road and while we were doing that another member drove by and offered to help so he now really thinks highly of the members of our church. We gave him a BoM and told him to read it and pray about it. He lives out of our area, so we gave him the other missionaries phone number. A cop also drove by and stopped to take over the situation so we left.
Things with Kirk this week have been interesting. We taught him the Word of Wisdom on Wednesday and it went swell. He committed to live it, and he is a party-er so we were really impressed with his faith. I wish he could look back and see where he started when we first met him to where he is now. He has changed so much. We had scheduled with him to take us to church again, even though we had the car, so we could make sure that he went. On Sunday we knocked on his door and he told us that he had some good news and that he had some bad news. The good news was that he could still take us to church but the bad news was that he wasn't going to stay. We asked him why not and he said because he had been praying about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and had gotten some weird feelings that didn't really sit right with him. He couldn't really describe the feelings when we asked him about them though. They weren't the feelings he had experienced before when he had been praying. On our ride over to church we helped him convince himself that he needed to stay for at least sacrament meeting, and he did! We told him to come listen to the testimonies of those who had come to know that the book of mormon was true and that Joseph Smith really was a prophet. The ward really delivered too. There were a lot of testimonies born on Joseph Smith and we know Kirk felt the spirit. He told us that he still wanted to meet with us that night. We actually had other plans, but we set up for Tuesday night.
Sunday all of our appointments fell through. It was stacked up to be a sweet day too. We had lessons planned with 2 new investigators and we had a member family coming with us to teach Layton and we were going to set a baptismal date with her for Feb 16th. But none of these people were home or met us where they were supposed to. However since our plans opened up we decided to go see Kirk and we watched Joseph Smith:Prophet of the Restoration with him. I think it really helped him and we are still going to teach him on Tuesday in a members home, the Bruins (who we spent Christmas Eve with). New Year's Eve was fun. We went to a members home around 6 and had dinner and drank some Martinelli's before coming in at 9 and being asleep by 10:30. I think I woke up at 12 to some pot banging, but i didn't check the clock before rolling over and just falling back asleep. That is super sweet to hear about Rachael's baby! Some pictures would also be super sweet ;)
It's been getting warmer lately and the snow is starting to melt. We still have a lot though. I've been reading through Our Heritage again and I came across this quote that I really liked. James S. Brown, who was a member of the mormon battallion said this when he was in California right before the gold rush and right after they got honorably discharged. "I have never seen that rich spot of earth since; nor do I regret it, for there always has been a higher object before me than gold. ... Some may think we were blind to our own interests; but after more than forty years we look back without regrets, although we did see fortunes in the land, and had many inducements to stay. People said, 'Here is gold on the bedrock, gold on the hills, gold in the rills, gold everywhere,... and soon you can make an independent fortune.' We could realize all that. Still duty called, our honor was at stake, we had covenanted with each other, there was a principle involved; for with us it was God and His kingdom first. We had friends and relatives in the wilderness, yea, in an untried, desert land, and who knew their condition? We did not. So it was duty before pleasure, before wealth, and with this prompting we rolled out." I was thinking about what the "gold" of life can be and what we all give up in order to build up the kingdom of God. Right now I feel like there has been a lot that I have given up to come out on a mission, but what we receive in return to being obedient to our duty as members of this church is by far greater than anything we may have to give up. There are people in this world who are wandering around not being able to find the truth because they know not where to find it. And I am here to help them find it. So it is duty before school, work, girls, music, etc etc. I love this church with all my heart and i know that it is true. So let's all live it!
Love, Elder Peterson
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