Last Monday I had an exchange with Elder Masaki. We were dropped off at the first discussion, which didn't last very long. The second one was awesome though. We biked over to this woman's house in the rain and had to talk to her on her porch because there wasn't a male adult in the home. But it went fantastic! She asked us questions like "why do you believe your church is the only true one" and "what makes you want to share it with others?" We answered the questions pretty much by teaching her about the Restoration. Elder Masaki did an awesome job, and we were able to powerfully testify of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. She said that she would read and pray about it. Amazing! That discussion gave me a great boost for the next week.
Last Wednesday we had a discussion with Ebony and a Sister from our ward. Sister Moore was so helpful. We were talking about the Doctrine of Christ (Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the end) and Sister Moore talked with Ebony about the importance of Baptism and committed her to pray about receiving the ordinance. She honestly did most of the teaching for us. They connected so fast and were talking like old friends. The experience further strengthened my trust in having members at lessons. Not that I didn't trust them before, but sometimes you kinda worry about what people might say... Sister Moore was incredibly helpful though.
We were supposed to meet with a guy named Jermaine last Friday, but he didn't have time (uh-huh). So we decided to walk around for a bit. 5 minutes later we come across this lady weeding her extremely weed infested yard. We walked up and started chatting with her. She was very nice and accepted our offer to help her weed. We found out her name is Jeannie and for the next hour we weeded and talked. We learned about her background (she's fostered 6 kids!). She's a very charitable woman and we asked if we could come help in the morning as well, since she commented that she'd be at it again the following morning. She gladly accepted once again and we came the next morning. This time we helped for about 2 hours and got a lot done. She plans to replant her grass, so it'll be a lot of work (especially considering the fact that her "soil" is about 90% clay and 10% sand...) but she's confident that it'll get done. We invited her to the church tour were going to have later that afternoon, but she didn't end up making it. We'll have to stop by her home soon.
We had invited a ton of people to the tour, but we were only expecting 2 people to actually show up. After 45 minutes of waiting for people, Ebony showed up!! We got to walk around the building and explain a lot of things we do. It was awesome, and she brought her son too. At the end I asked her if she's received an answer regarding Baptism. She said that she was already baptized, so I explained how our church is the only one with the proper authority to perform saving ordinances like Baptism (this was about the 4th time I've explained it. I guess I didn't do very well). She said that she understood and would continue to pray about it. I hope she does decide to be baptized, I know it would help her with the problems she's going through.
Lastly, we had zone conference! My 5th one. Not much to comment on, typical training. We discussed the importance of the Book of Mormon AND the Bible and how to use them together. We did some role-playing for practice and then had lunch. It was olive garden. Now, I'm not being ungrateful when I say this, I'm very grateful for the provided lunch. But I VERY VERY much dislike spaghetti. VERY MUCH. But, oh well. I ate plenty anyway. After all that I got my typical picture with Elder Frogley and then continued on with my day. Our day. Elder Child and I head back after lunch.
And today I got to go golfing!! It's almost been a full year since I've last gone golfing. It was super fun. It was Elders Child, Masaki, Heiner, Gale, and Morley and I going with Brother Vercher from our wars. I did better than I thought I would, so it was very fun. Good good fun.
Anyway, I hope you're all doing well. If you ever have any questions, shoot me an email. Have a great week!
-Elder Peterson
I feel like these pictures are fairly obvious. Couple comments though:
The one where I've got the helmet on was from the exchange when it was pouring.
The picture with the Peterson sign was the next day of the exchange (yes, I know my head looks funky. Whatever.)
And the Flower is a picture I took. I'm proud of it.
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