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
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