And ye shall go forth in the power of my spirit, preaching my gospel, two by two, in my name, lifting up your voices as with the sound of a trump, declaring my word like unto angels of God.
D&C 42:6

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

And there shall be no more curse..... Rev 22:3

Hey Everyone,

This week was my first week with Elder Wendt, he is awesome! He was in the MTC with me! So, we already know each other and are good friends.  I'm excited for the next 6 weeks! 

This week we have been going around visiting members. And getting to know the ward and build their trust. Since I have only been here 7 weeks and Wendt has only been here 1. It is going good we are getting to know the ward better which is good so we can get more referrals from the members so the ward can grow! The branch is about to die off in the next couple of weeks. Every one of the members we have right now are going to school some where else or going on their mission soon. We are going to have to wait until school starts up here to get the branch going again. So we are trying to focus on the ward a little more right now.

So there is a Lewiston curse that happens every time a new missionary comes in that something bad happens! And it happened again the start of the week Elder wendt is allergic to nuts so the day before he got here he ate some peanut butter brownies and got sent to the ER for 4 hours haha now he has to carry an eppie pen with him every where he goes!

Everything is going great I'm loving Lewiston and my companion. I am very excited for the work to fire up the next 5 weeks!!!

Love Elder Peterson



Monday, July 23, 2012

Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. Ps. 146:1

Hey Everyone


This week was awesome! 
First of all transfers are this week and I am staying but Elder Whiting is leaving. I am getting Elder Wendt he came out with me from the MTC!!! 

This week we had some fun experiences!

We were Knocking on doors and we knocked on Kevins door.  He came out and laughed at us and he was making fun of us we could tell he was not interested. He asked us why he even opened the door to us and I said "because we are two awesome people ready to talk to you"! He laughed and said "no because you guys are retarded". After talking for a while he saw that we were normal people, so he told us to sit on his steps and he was going to talk with us. So we talked to him for about a hour before he said wait here and ran back inside! He then came out with a tin of shoe shine and he told me to give him my shoes. He then shined our shoes for us and he invited us back next week for a steak dinner haha! Its funny how people can change after they get to know a person! 

We also are starting to teach this amazing guy and his family again. He has been trying to get to see his kid who looks just like him for like 5 months, and finally got to!  He is such a cool guy!! I think he will be getting baptized some time in the near future!

I love you all!
Elder Peterson 





Sunday, July 22, 2012

Wherefore, as ye are agents, ye are on the Lord's errand; and whatever ye do according to the will of the Lord is the Lord's business. D&C 64:29

Hey Everyone,


This week the YSA Branch has been booming with missionary work!  We have been giving church tours to all the members and telling them to invite their friends on them.  It is so spiritual and amazing!  We have 7 new investigators in the branch and we should get 3 more this next week if it all works out the way we planned it!! On the other hand, the ward we are over is not doing the best.  We can't get the members to invite there friends or give us referrals, so it just up to us to get investigators.

We had two Investigators that we have on date for the 28th. But nether one of them could make it to church this week so they had to fall off date! :( But a cool thing about one of them is Dakoda might be going on tour with a band called Silent Theory.  They called him up and said come audition. Then they told him if their lead singer backs out or gets dropped, he will be the one to replace him!! It's pretty cool, but if he leaves to go on tour for 3 months I dont think he will be getting baptized any time soon!! 

We got dropped my the kid from Africa because he called his mom and told her about us, and she said if he keeps investigating she would cut off all ties to him and ban him form the family and he could not go back to Africa.  It was really sad to see so we told him to keep reading the BOM and one day he will get the chance to learn more about our church and be baptized. So he took all of our reading material and said ok and thanked us for sharing what we have shared with him. It was sad to see but he added us as friends on Facebook so we will see him after the mission! haha yes!! 

I am being safe, happy, and trying to be healthy! I miss you all and love you all especially you who is reading this I love you the most!!

Love Elder Peterson





Monday, July 9, 2012

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. Malachi 3:1


Hey Everyone,
 This week was a good week! 

Our YSA Branch is booming right now! It went from about 10-15 people to thirty, it is crazy and so fun!! We have been finding a lot of new investigators! We found a guy that is from Uganda Africa, he runs track for LCSC and he is a beast! He runs his mile in 4mins. It is crazy!! We started to talk to him about his life and he said he grew up in a religion and when he came to the US he thought it was so crazy how many churches were here. So we related his life to Joseph Smith's life, and he said "yes that is just like me"! And he loves us! He said he already knows the book of mormon is true and he has  a big change he is going to take in his life, but he has to talk to his family about it first! So it was really awesome to see how into the gospel he is. The lord has prepared him tons!!

Love Elder Peterson







Tuesday, July 3, 2012

...the world shall rejoice: and ya shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy!! John 16:20

Hey Everyone,
 This week was really fun!  Some crazy stuff happened last P-day.  We were driving and we needed to flip a u turn and the Elder that was driving tried to flip it in to small of an area.   He hit the curb and blew a tire!! Then after we got new tires we were diving and a bird flew in to our window!  It was funny!!  Then right after that a cop pulled us over because he got our car mixed up this a stocker they have been trying to catch!! And it turns out the cop is the father a kid we are teaching the lessons too!!! Haha small world I guess!! 


This week we are really trying to find more people, so we have been out trying to get people to come on church tours and listen to us! It has been going great too!!  We have found like 4 or 5 new people to teach each week!  We have this one investigator who really understands what we teach and he can tell us what we teach really well.  He said that he wants to take the 5 lessons then get baptized!  It's awesome, but he is on probation so he can't get baptized for a year unless we get approval form the first presidency! Love you all


Elder Peterson