Dear Family,
Tell me something good! We had a great week this
last week. Things are going well in both areas we are covering. On
Sunday we taught the third hour in Geneseo for the combined lesson since
it was the third Sunday. We hooked the branch president's laptop up to
the projector and presented mormon.org
to the branch. It went over really well and the members had a lot of
questions and were really impressed with all of the features that it
contains and all the things you can do on there. I definitely encourage
everyone to check it out and make a profile too! I have a profile up
as well. You can find me by searching for "Brent Iowa Des Moines
Mission" and i should pop up. We also had a good church session in Rock
Island. The combined lesson was all on missionary work. Hopefully the
ward is inspired. We had a really good lesson with a member referral
we got. We taught a family and the aunt and the 2 sisters all agreed to
be baptized! It is really amazing the miracles we see... especially on
the first lesson that we teach them. They also came to church on
Sunday and really liked it. We are meeting with them again on Saturday
to set a baptismal date with them. On Thursday i get to go to Nauvoo
for the pageant. My companion has already gone, but one of the zone
leaders here has not so we are going to go together and then my
companion and his companion will work together that day since they have
both gone already. The member that we are riding down with is doing
security so we will be there early and will get to spend some time in
Nauvoo to explore the city and such. I'm excited! We did not do
anything for pioneer day. We did celebrate Christmas in July though and
had a white elephant gift exchange as a district and then played sand
volleyball together. That was fun. Our golf game went well. These
past 2 times that i've gone has been with people who have never played
golf before so it has taken up the whole P-day. We have also played
basketball these last 2 weeks and have had more investigators present
than members each time which is sweet! Hopefully we can see some
success from this and start to teach them. They get along well with us
and we are becoming good friends. It's really inspiring to see the
youth of the ward doing missionary work and getting their friends
involved with the church. It certainly is helping them with their
decisions to serve missions themselves. I did know that the olympics
started this week. Haven't seen any of it, but i've heard about some of
it. Brittany... i got the package that you sent with that family from
Orem. Thanks for the goodies :) This church is so true!
Love, Elder Peterson
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