A really good week!!

This week was really good!! Sherry Max came to church this Sunday.  That was a big deal because she is really Catholic and she is having a hard time leaving it.  She liked it and she really loves that we have the priesthood and can give blessings.  She wants one soon she said, so that's really cool. 

Speaking of blessings...I gave my first blessing the other day! It was to a little kid named Luca, who had to go the the hospital from asthma.  As soon as we got done with the blessing his brother says "is he healed?" haha  Then Luca said "yes, now I'm all better", it was cool he is a awesome kid. 

Kristine had her baby, her name is Walela. It means humming bird in Indian. She is a cute little girl. 

We have been doing a lot of knocking on doors to try to find people. As we were knocking down this street, these people were having a BBQ and invited us to eat and play washers with them so we did.  It was really fun. It was the mail Lady's house. She really likes us, we told her she needs to start bringing us some more mail.  She said she would start writing us and making her daughters write us haha. 

Transfers are next Sunday so I find out if I'm staying or going but it think I will stay here for a little bit.

Love Elder Peterson

Conkling Bay

Hey Everyone,

This week was very good! The first of the week we went up to Conkling Bay and knocked on some doors. Everyone there is really nice, so we will have to do that more. It is also very beautiful there. It's a big lake with trees everywhere. After that, we went to the boat races this week.  We went around at talked to a lot of people. There were more members there than I tought there would be, so it was really cool. This one kid was walking past us and he said "look they are officers" then he looked at us and said "wait what are you guys"?  haha. He was about 7. It was a really good time to walk around and talk to a bunch of people, and it was really cool to see boats with Corvette engines in them and helicopter turbines. It was crazy to see them fly down the river.

On a more spiritual note, we had a amazing church tour and lesson with Sherry Max. She said she would give up coffee for ten days and she would come to church this Sunday!  I can't believe it! It is really cool to see how people change because of the Book of Mormon, it is crazy! Kristine (she is the Prego one) will probably end up moving her baptism date because its on the 21st, and she is going to have her baby on the 20th so that might be a problem. 

We are two weeks from transfers and I think I will stay in Plummer. But I think Elder Nelson will go somewhere else, he has been here for 7 months so its time for him to leave. 

OH and we found mold in our apartment so it looks like we will be moving so if anyone knows of a place in plummer let us know ;)
Love Elder Peterson

Easter!!!!

Hey Everyone,

Happy Easter! For Easter we went and had dinner at the Campbell's.  It was amazing, she is a really good cook. We didn't spend a lot of time there because we wanted to teach people on Easter.  So we went to a few less active members houses and had some good lessons. This week we have had a lot of lessons.  They were all good but the one that was the best was with the Maxes and we watched a movie on Joseph Smith.  Sherry thinks Joseph made everything up because she reads a lot of anti Mormon books. After the movie she was starting to give in and accept that he is not a bad guy. She also had a problem with men holding the priesthood, but she told us she had personal revelation and she said it was ok for the men to be the head of the house hold and hold the priesthood. Bob said "well that still doesn't make me boss haha".  He is a funny guy. That whole time we were over there after sherry told him he was the head of the house, he would do something and she would get mad at him so he would just say "its ok I'm head of the house hold now hahaha".

I went on splits with one of the Elders from Saint Marie's.  We found out that there is going to be jet boat races next week so that will be really cool to see!  I will get pics form that and send them. Sorry my last couple emails have been short nothing crazy or funny has happened in the past weeks but the boat races should bring some good stories.

Love Elder Peterson

Conference

Hey Everyone,

This week we watched conference with Bob and Serry Max.  They are non-members and they loved it so that is really good.  I hope they get baptized.  We watched the sunday conference with the Mokrys.  They are members, and they are awsome. 

The weather this week has been really really rainy!  The streets have been flooding!  It rained for about 5 days straight.  It has been really cool to see, but our appartment has a some stuff wrong with it so we are trying to find a new place to live.  There is a member in the ward who owns a huge house so we might be able to move in to that, and that would be way cool!  It has a gym and a ping pong table and she is a way good cook. 

We have been running low on people to teach so we have been doing a lot of knocking on doors and contacting old investigaters.  I'm really hoping that the work will pick up soon. Sorry I couldn't write much this week, but i've got to go.

Elder Peterson.