...thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. Lev. 19:18

Hey Everyone,

This could very well be my last week in Omak. We have transfers next Sunday and I have been here for 6 months, so I bet I will leave. 

It has been warming up here and the snow is just starting to melt and get everything muddy. 

We had a good week with lessons.  We had like 5 People tell us they are going to come to church and to watch for them. And every single one of them blew us off. We called them all that morning no answer form any of them. It was very frustrating to have such a good week then nothing to show for it in the end. But even though that happened we are still going to work hard with them and get them to come to church one of these weekends. 

I hope everyone has a happy valentines day! 

love you all.  

Elder Peterson

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Matt. 16:19

Hey everyone,

This week was pretty good for Omak!  We have been working with a lot of less actives trying to bring them back and we have been getting a few of them back.  It is really hard when someone gets in that rut of not going to church and they become numb to the feeling of why they should go and they just dont care. So what we have been doing is asking them what they really love and enjoy about this life and they usually say there family or something. We then get to tell them about how great the blessings are for your family and your marriage when you follow the teaching of the Prophets and of Jesus Christ. Because when you do that you can be happy not only in this life but in the life to come and for all eternity. We all know this life is going to end some time but the next one wont so why not do everything you can in this life to prepare for that life. It might be hard to go back at first, it might feel like your out of place. But just remember that's how Joseph Smith felt right before Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him. I know if we all do what is right and do what we can God will handle the rest. 

Love you all.

-Elder Peterson 

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. Ps. 144:15

Hello, 

This week was full of finding and of service! 

We had our Zone Leaders come up and spend about two days with us and we got a lot of tracting and less active work done. It was a great experience and I learned a lot. 

There is a lady in our ward who needed some help with dry wall and she did not want to ask the bishop for help. So her daughter asked us if we could find someone who knew how to do it, then come over and do it when she was at work one day. We did find someone and she was super surprised and happy. It was really fun to put a smile on a persons face. 

I love you all 

Elder Peterson

...it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. Dan 12:7

Hello Everyone, 

This last week I hit my one year mark and it is crazy to think that I only have one year left! Everyone is telling me that the next year will fly by faster then this first year did. If that is true then I will be home in no time. I have kinda mixed feeling about it, but I still have a whole year and I have learned so much in my first year. I am super excited to learn more this next year. 

In Omak this week we have been going to see a bunch of the less actives on the ward list. We were able to clean up a lot of the ward list and found out who wants to come back to church and who doesn't. 

This last Missionary meeting our relief society president said "you guys are ROCKEN" haha. It was funny, she is a really nice lady. 

We had some good news at the start of the week! One of our investigators that we thought just fell off the face of the earth, we finally got a hold of him. He was in Hawaii with a bunch of his Mormon friends and he came back and now wants to be baptized it is great! 

I hope you all are having a great week! I love you all! 

Love Elder Peterson

...good is the word of the Lord... 2 Kings 20:19

Hey Everyone,

This week was good and bad, bad because our only investigator in Coulee Dam dropped us. But good because we also might have found a way cool family to teach out there. So it's like we give up something good to get something better! 

We have been working a lot on finding investigators because after the two Baptisms we just had, our teaching pool has gone down way to much.  We have been knocking on doors and working with members! 

I also got to hold a Hedge Hog cool huh! Sorry the pictures are blurry my comp took the pic. 

I love you all so very much!

Love Elder Peterson!

And the people believed... Ex. 4:31

Hey everyone,

This week was transfers and I will be staying in Omak with Elder Wydner for 6 more weeks. 

We baptized two people last transfer and our goal this transfer is two more!  I think we can do it, because we just met 4 new great people who seen real legit. I have only meet them all once or twice but they are really cool people who want to learn and do the right thing! 

Rena Rozales got Baptized and that was a great thing. When she got confirmed she said that her head started to tingle when we put are hands on our head! So next time we talk with her we will let her know what that was.

Love you all

Elder Peterson

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Ps 118:24

Hey everyone,

This week Wayne was baptized and he loved it! And just in time for Christmas.
It was a great Christmas gift for him and his wife!

 

Our teaching pool has really gone up the last 2 weeks. We have been really
busy and we have had people call us and ask us to

come over and teach them out of the blue! People are happier this time of
year so everything is going very well!

 

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and they can Focus on love and
being with family this Christmas. Remember what

Christmas is about......not the gifts.

 

Love Elder Peterson

And whoso knocketh, to him will he open... 2 Nephi 9:42

Hello Everyone,

 

Elder Wydner and I had a pretty good week. We have been getting a lot of snow
here but we have not let that stop us from working hard.

 

There is a lady named Rena who Elder Hardesty and I found and this last week,
we invited her to be baptized and she never gave us a yes or a no. But then later
on that night she called us and asked what date it was that we asked her to be
baptized, and we said Jan 5 so she said ok lets plan on that! At first she didn't
want any one to be there and she didn't want any music or any speakers, but as
she has been making friends she is getting super excited about the whole thing
and she even asked me to baptize her! So this last week has been a fun one we
have had some good Progress in Coulee Dam we found one lady who really likes
us but she wants us to come watch her boy play in a high school basketball game.

I told her that was very very unlikely that we would be permission to do.

 

Love you all and have a Merry Christmas!

 

-Elder Peterson

...for the joy of the Lord is your strength. Neh. 8:10

Hello everyone,

 

This week was GREAT!

 

I hope you all had a great Christmas because I did. It was great to call home and see my family!

 

We found this lady and her son we are now teaching and she is really catholic but she is not very

active. She is going to try our church. She is really nice and her son is a really cool kid, he is 17

and he is 6foot 4inches he plays basketball too!

 

Rena is still ready for Baptism on the 5th of Jan. and I can't wait for that!

 

I also got to pet a deer this last week!! It was everything I dreamed it would be!!

 

 

Love you all Elder Peterson