The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 2 Sam. 23:2

Hello Everyone,

This week Elder Wendt and I have been doing a lot of finding and trackting. It has been paying off too because we had 23 lessons this week and that is the most lessons I have had in one week my whole mission! We had two great experiences this week.

1. We were trackting and we found a less active member of the church who just moved in to a new place. So we talked to her and she has a daughter who is 7 and we are hoping we can get her active then get her daughter baptized. After we left her house we saw a man walking down the street with groceries in his hand we asked if we could help him carry them to his house, he said yes. We took them to his house as we talked about the Savior and about church. Then we asked him if he would like to come on a church tour and see how we worship and he said yes. We asked if he could do it later that day and we set it up for 2 hours latter. Then after the church tour we taught him about the priesthood and we invited him to be baptized for the 29th of September, he said yes!

2. We took some future missionaries trackting with us so they could see what it's like to be a missionary. And we had some great experiences but the best one was when Elder Wendt and Riley asked a woman to be baptized on her front lawn after they had taught the first lesson and she said yes. She said she wishes she could read the book of Mormon and be baptized but she has no money to buy the book. They told her it was free and her face lit up like a light!

Love you all! Next week is transfer pray that I stay here with Elder Wendt. And pray for my Dad!

Love Elder Peterson

Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack... Gen. 42:25

Hey everyone,
    
This week the branch is dying. Everyone is leaving to school and on missions. It is really sad to see all my friends that I have made are leaving, haha, its hard. These next couple of weeks should be slow in the branch. Then hopefully it gets booming with college kids and we can get more investigators! 

In the ward this week we had a picnic and it was really fun we meet a lot of inactive people that came to that. And we got to know more of the ward members who came. It was all really fun until had to go to the bathroom! I went into port-a-potty and locked it, then when I tried to get out it would not come unlocked! haha So I was stuck in that dumb thing for like 10 min. I was shaking it and it was rocking so I dont know what people thought of when I was in there, but i bet it was a funny thing to see!! haha 

We also went to a BBQ place called Mad Dogs where Elder Wendt and one of our investigators did the "Mad Dog challenge" and that is to eat 9.5 pounds of food! A 7.5 pound hamburger and 2 pounds of fries.  And if you eat it all then it is free and needless to say they didn't eat all of it!! They still had two good size hamburgers when they finished haha but it cost them about $53 dollars because they didn't eat all of it!


I am loving Lewiston it is great and I love the people here they are awesome! I love you all too 

Love Elder Peterson

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tiding unto the meak..... Isa. 61:1

Hey Everyone,

 

This week we have been trying to contact a bunch of less actives and potential investigators! We went to contact this one potential and he told us he was working his way to be a pastor to the Lutheran church. He said he would love us to keep coming by so he could learn more about the Book of Mormon. I don't know if he will be baptized but it is still cool to talk with him.  He even asked if he could come to church with us next Sunday! 

The work with the members has been going really great. They are signing up to feed us a lot and they have been giving us some good referrals. 

Our last lesson with Ken and Linda Jones went really good! We taught the plan of salvation and they really liked it. They said that it made sense and now we have another lesson with them on Tuesday. 

Now we are trying to get some members that have kids around the same age so they will feel comfortable coming to church! 

I am having fun with Elder Wendt, he is a good guy and we are working hard!

 

Love Elder Peterson

...and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths..... Isa 2:3

Hey Everyone! 

This week we have been trying to get to know the members and get them to give us referrals. We have been doing a 3 week program with some families. The ones we are doing it on has been working really well, they are getting to know us better and to trust us more. 
This Sunday we had two lessons just happen out of no where. It was really cool! After church, a lady invited us over for dinner and said her son in-law in a non-member. So we talked with him and answered a few question then we picked him up as a new investigator. Then after that, we went to visit an elderly lady in our ward.  Her grandson who is like 30 wanted to have a bible study with us, so we read the book of Mormon with him and set up another time to meet with him. 
That was really cool to have two lessons and two new investigators just pop up from out of no where! 

I am having a great time and loving the work I miss you all and I love you too!!

Love Elder Peterson