Update

Hello everyone,

February 18th was my one month mark, if anyone is counting, it seams like I just got dropped off yesterday.

This last week was a very slow teaching week, we only had 12 lessons,  we are suppose to get 20 or more in a week.

We only got 12 because 2 of our main investigators went out of town for the week, we didn't get to meet with them at all this last week.

They are both back so those numbers will rise this next week. 

Since we did not have a very good teaching week, we had a very good service week. 

Friday, Saturday, and Monday we did service all day long for two families.

Friday we helped brother and sister Koropatniki dig out there root seller.

Saturday we helped brother and sister Esties build a goat pen that was fun in 30 mph winds.

I got kicked by the goat when it was trying to get out of the pen. I went to tackle it and the little sucker freaked out and kicked me.  It really was fun.

After messing with the goat for 3 hours we went back to the Koropatnikies and helped them dig out there root seller more. 

Monday, yup you guessed it, we helped the Koropatnikies dig out their root seller some more.

Koropatnikies are the funniest people you will ever meet. Brother Koropatniki is always making jokes and saying random hick stuff. 

We have had a lot of fun digging with them in their tiny root seller. 

Oh ya,  one last thing before I go, there is a family nudest Colony in our area. I will probably end up living there after my mission. ha ha just kidding.

Love Elder Peterson

(sorry one of the pictures is turned sideways)

First Week in the Field!

Hello Everyone,

 My first week out of the mtc went great! I am in Plummer Idaho...aka the Rez. It's an Indian reservation, how cool is that? there are wolves running around like crazy around here. It's so cool!  I got to pet one the other day, I didn't get a pic of it but I will next time I see it. Its so cool...it has orange eyes. 


Most people here are nice! There are two families that are my favorite. The Cammbles and the Ties. The Ties are a 50 year old couple. She was in the army and she works for the ambulance depo. now so she is really fun to talk to and she is really nice. Brother Ties is a bee keeper and that's pretty cool. The Cammbles have 14 kids and they are in there 50 too.  Their youngest child is 19.  They are an Indian family and they have a grand baby named Klohe, she is the cutest baby you will ever see! I will try to send a pic but if you ever adopt go Indian it will be the best thing you ever do. 


Plummer is a really small town so there is not a lot of door knocking we can do so it has been pretty slow on lessons but it will pick up. I might have my first baptism on march 3!  She's an inactive member's 8 year old daughter so hopefully that will happen. But over all I'm doing great here and having a blast.
 
Elder Peterson.

He made it to Washington!!

7 February 2012

Elder Nelson (Training Companion) and Elder Peterson

Plummer, Idaho area

President Palmer and Sister Palmer (Mission President)

February 1st Email

Hello Everyone!

This is my last email from the MTC!  I fly out to Washington on Monday.  The MTC has been awesome.  My group of missionaries are great!  Elder Keys is my companion.  He is from Salt Lake City, he is a great kid.  Everyone from my group  is from Utah except two.  One of them is from Indiana and the other from Japan...he is American though.  On January 31st Elder Nelson came and spoke to the missionaries.  It was the 50th anniversary of this MTC!!  There were not enough seats for all of the missionaries.  They had a room with a TV for the over flow.  The talk was at 7:00.  People started missing classes to line up at 4:00!  Some of my group wanted to line up and other wanted to go to class.  We decided to split up.  Me, my Companion, and two other Elders went to Zone Teaching...we were the only 4 out of 24 that showed up!  Our teacher told us all the seats have been taken and to go watch it on TV.  If you know me I was not going to go with out a good try.  So we went to the building and before we even made it inside a guard stopped us and said there were no more seats.  So my companion and the two other Elders started to go to the overflow.  I said (jokingly) "Nephi didn't give up the first time he and his brothers went to get the brass plates so lets try the other door".  When we got to the door the guard told us the same thing as the other one.  But as we turned around, a guy came out of the doors and said "some people didn't show up for their reserved seats so you four can have them!"  So we ended up with four front row seats to see Elder Nelson and Elder Holland talk, all because we were obedient and went to Zone Teaching.  Being obedient can bless you in every way!!

Write to you from Spokane!

Love Elder Peterson