...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

"And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm" Acts 28:5

Hey Everyone,

 I sent some pics of last week and some this week. That is the dog that bit me and what it did to my arm! Then my comp. in the ER because he passed out haha! 

This week we had some funny things happen and some good teaching moments! First things first, we had a lesson with two 20 year old kids and they love the church!! And they are on date for baptism for the 28th of July! 

My mission president is leaving June 28th and my new mission president gets here on June 28th!! And we meet him July 1 so that is pretty exciting! 

Lewiston put on this big ten days of praise party down town. We found 4 people to go on church tours, it was awesome! 

Some funny story's now!

-We were teaching two little girls who are 7 and 6 and we asked them what they are thankful for that god has given them. And the 6 year old said right off the bat "scissors"!! haha

-We found this little green taco van and we thought "hey lets eat there".  So we did and we got tongue nachos-we call them the gift of tongues nachos! (mission joke its ok if you dont think thats funny)

Love you all!!

Elder Peterson

 Nasty dog bite!

 ER visit

The Beast!

Many are the afflictions of the righteous... Ps.34:19

Hey Everyone, 


This week I got sent to Lewiston ID.  My first day here I got bit by a dog taking my bike up the stairs to my apartment.  
But my companion, Elder Whiting, thought he had to one up me...so he passed out in the ER when we were visiting people!! He got put up in the ER haha!! So it has been a crazy week! We are both fine!! It's just funny what has been happening to us haha. 


I will send you pictures next week because I forgot my camera to send pics to you! 


Lewiston is a lot different than Plummer. Bigger city, more people, and i'm on bikes instead of a car full time! But it is still fun and i'm still trying to get to know everyone and the people i'm teaching! 


Sorry this email is short but i'm running out of time emailing and I have to go Love you all!

Elder Peterson

First Transfer!

Hey Everyone, 

I am going to start off by telling all of you that I am leaving Plummer and going to Lewiston ID! It will be good to have some change! I can't wait, it is going to be awesome! 

Elder Stubbs is leaving to they are bringing Sister Missionaries into Plummer so it can have a fresh start!!  

This week in Plummer we did a lot of service for the Maxe's. We cleaned out there goat pen and I have never moved so much poopy hay in my life!!! When I first started I dug my pitch fork in the hay and when I lifted it up the smell hit me and it really took me back to the good ol' farm days haha!  But really it was gross haha!  

Sherry said she was not going to meet with us or read with us any more but we could still come by and read with Bob. So we do and even though she wont read, she will listen to us and ask questions. So she thinks she is done meeting with us but she really isn't! They were both really sad to see me leave! I will miss them and I hope one day they will be baptized and go to the temple! 

I can't wait to write you all from Lewiston and tell you how it is going there it is going to be way fun!

Love Elder Peterson!

"Is any thing too hard for the lord?" Gen. 18:14

Hey Everyone! 


This week has been......well just bad but you seem to make the best of the bad weeks out here! It's been bad just because its like everything we do just ends up going bad! We already had a rough week because all the people we go to see are ether not home or just see that its us and don't answer the door. 


This one lady, we knocked and knocked because her car was there and the lights were on and she never answered so we walked away. As we got into the car her grand daughter rides up on her bike and walks inside.  So it just has been depressing. Then to top it of we got dropped by Sherry Max. But she said we still can come over and teach her husband! So its awkward to go over there now and teach him when she is just walking around the kitchen and listening to us. 


Kristine Kennach moved her date to the 16th instead of the 9th because she had something going on the 9th. So if I dont stay another transfer then I wont get to see her be baptized.


I don't really want to stay another transfer because I kinda want to see someplace new and have change! There is never a week of my mission that I don't love!!!! 


So there was some good stuff that happened this week! We found a new place to live but it has to be finished being built. We are waiting for that. Everyone wants me to stay here another transfer because they all love me! I feel so loved so thats good!! umm....and Plummer is doing better than most places in this mission so that makes me feel a little better! I know I will be fine and it will get better so I will push through it!! 


I love you all!!

Love Elder Peterson

Hey Everyone, 


My Email is late because we had to work over memorial day, so our P-day is today.


 This last week has been really slow and full of cancellations. We only got to teach like 2 times this week. We have been trying to see less active and potentials and they are either never home or they are home and don't answer the door. This one lady was out on her porch and saw us driving up so she went inside and turned on the tv and closed the door. She acted like she wasn't home...haha. And we could see her in the house. I dont know what it is about some people!! 


We did get some head way with the Westons. They are letting us come over and help them paint Thursday at noon so maybe they will get to know us more.  Then we can get to know them and it will make them want to come to church! They say they are just really busy right now and that's why they are not coming but I think it might be something else. 


But really other than that we have only been tracking and getting doors closed in our face!  It was kind of a depressing week haha :( but it has been like that in the whole mission I guess, so we will just shake it off and keep going! I love you all and miss you tons!!

Love Elder Peterson

Hey everyone,

This week was good we had a lesson with Bob and Sherry and with the Kennaches. They both went good but not so good! let me explain!

We went to Bob and Sherry's and she told us that she didn't think this church is right for her and that she has really liked us to come in her home so she could feel the spirit. But she said that us coming over has just made her faith stronger in the Catholic church! Weired huh! But anyway, I told her that I think she feels that way because when she thinks of religion or the spirit she thinks of growing up in the Catholic church and that's where she goes to get more of it. And if she will read the Book of Mormon and start coming to church and follow the commandments she will know that this is the one and only true church! So she said she would give it a try but we will see what really happens! 

Then at the kennaches we just kinda talked outside about random stuff. Patrick is a really funny guy and we just talked for a while and we got a on date for Kristine again!  Its going to be on June 9th. They said they didn't want to wait any longer and she needs to be baptized so this should be a pretty solid date!

Elder Brown and I went trackting and we took some funny pics and stuff at peoples houses that weren't home it was really fun. 

Something cool that happened this week was we found a guy who is a JDUB and he took a Book of Mormon and said he is not interested but he would read it anyway!  And he said you never know maybe something in this book will change my mind!! So we will go see what he thought of it in a week or two!  

Love Elder Peterson

Hey Everyone,
This week was really good!! Not only because I got to talk to my family for mothers day but because we had some good lessons and it has been a really fun week! 

First, we have been trying to still get Kristine back on date but they keep canceling on us.  And now Patrick has to work nights so he is sleeping all day, so it even harder to get in there! 

We had a good lesson with the Maxes. We read about baptism and how its not the end but its the start on the path for eternal life.  They agreed to everything we were telling them, but they still won't get baptized, so I am still trying to figure out what they need to take the next step! 

Our teaching pool is starting to go down now that it is starting to get into summer because everyone is busy or they just don't want to hear form us.  It's kinda frustrating but we will always keep trying! 

Some funny/cool things that have happened in the last week!

-I told a guy that if could out drive him with a 7 iron then he should come to church next Sunday and I did! :) so we will see if he shows up!

-We were watching two kids fight with wooden swords and one was chasing after the other and his pants fell down as he was running and tripped haha.

-Some kid was talking to one of our members and as we were walking up to talk to them he said "oh no here come the tuxedo people"!! Then he asked for a Book of Mormon! 

Everything is going great we are trying to keep up the work as best as we can and I love you all!

Love Elder Peterson!

Elder Stubbs

Hey Everyone!

This week I shipped off my old companion and got a new one! His name is Elder Stubbs. He is From Ceder City Utah......ya another one from Utah!  He has been out for 13 months. 

The first day Elder Stubbs came to Plummer we went to see Angelita, she has had all kinds of problems in her life. We are trying to work them all out but its not so easy! She told us she was going to come to church this Sunday, but when her ride showed up she was crying and said she was not going. So we have to go see what was going on over there. 

We have been trying to meet with Kristine again so we can set a date to be baptized but she is so tired and busy with the baby and Patrick is busy at work, they can never find a moment to sit down. 

We have not been out to the Maxes yet this week ether. They said they were busy too so I'm hoping this next week people will start to calm down and we can teach them!

We have been starting to teach Branden again this week he is a cool guy and understands the Book Of Mormon he just can quit smoking! Almost everyone has a word of wisdom problem on the reservation and it is a pain in the butt! 

That's everything that has happened this week that is worth telling about so I will see you all next week then :)

Love Elder Peterson

Hey Everyone,

 

So it was transfers this week and I am staying in Plummer once again, but I cant say the same for Elder Nelson. He is packing up and moving on after being here for almost 8 months. My new companion is going to be Elder Stubs. 

 This week was really good, Elder Nelson wanted to say goodbye to everyone so we didn't have a lot of non member lessons, but the ones we did have went really really good! This week with Bob and Sherry Max we talked about the Holy Ghost and how they will know when the find out the church is true. When Sherry came to church last week the lesson was on the priesthood and she found out that Elder Nelson and I had the priesthood.  She asked us for a blessing and so we gave her a blessing and she started crying. Then after we gave Bob a blessing she started crying harder! We were waiting for her to just say I want to be baptized, but she never did. :( I know she knows the church is true and she just needs to jump in to it and she will love every minute of it! She just does not want to let go of her Catholic background.

That was my big story for this letter but I have a lot of cool little stories or things that have happened so here they are!

Kristine is still recovering from her baby Walela (wich means humming bird in Indian), she still wants to get baptized, I just hope her husband will keep the word of wisdom and still be able to baptize her.

We baptized Rachel this last Friday and she was so happy and excited it was really cool to watch!!

One of our members drew our mission president doing a thumbs up. he can't lift his thumb up off his hand when he does it so its really funny.

Elder Brown and I went on exchanges and took some really cool pictures and found a gas mask!

I got picture of the cutest Indian baby you will ever see her name is Khloe and she love the missionaries!

Elder Nelson and I were working on something for mothers day but now I don't think it will be done in time so me and Elder Stubs will make a new one. But it might not be in time for mothers day but we will surely try!

I love you all!!

Elder Peterson