September 8, 2014

This week has been pretty good. Didn't have a crazy thing that happened like week. But it was still very good.

So we got to teach around 8 lessons this week which isn't to bad for this area. But lately we have been cancelled on by everyone that we have been setting up appointments with or we cant really get into anyone's house that we have been teaching. So its been kind of hard, but something kind of funny that I never really understood makes total sense to me know. In Preach My Gospel there is a quote and it says" The secret to missionary work, is to work." and I didn't understand it because we are out here trying to work and doing the greatest work out here. I just never really thought about it. I realized that when I got out here that the secret to missionary work, is work and being obedient. It is very easy to get off track and not work hard and slack off and you don't really notice what your doing until its done. But since we have been more dedicated, working hard, and being more obedient the work has come so much more and the days have been flying by.

I have kind of a funny story that happened on Sunday. So there was a baby blessing in our ward this past week, and it was a Hispanic women that is a member, and her husband isn't so are branch president did the blessing. This lady had brought a lot of her family and friends that weren't members to the blessing. There were more people in our little church then I had ever seen. So we start the meeting and we have Fast and Testimony meeting. And a lady that was at the blessing that we had done the week before started to bawl her eyes out just like the women my comp and given the blessing to. And she kept getting louder and louder.

So she decides that she would get up and bear her testimony( Before this she was a investigator that didn't want to believe in the Book of Mormon and didn't want to lessons anymore.) She gets up and asks my comp to translate for her. So she starts talking, and talking , and talking, and she never gives my comp a chance to translate. She talks for like five minutes then looks at my comp to go and translate everything she had just said. He just looks at me and says he has not idea what she has just said. So he does his best and try's to do everything she just said. She looks at him and knows he didn't say the most important parts that she wanted him to. So she try's to talk in English and says how she doesn't know this church is true. But she had felt the spirit so strongly she knew there was something different about this church. She asked everyone to pray for her so she could know the Book of Mormon was true and she would know it was a true church. She starts to bawl again and starts to beg people to pray for her. Me and the other missionary's just look at each other, and we have no idea whats going on. But then after she just sits down and is still crying and the spirit was in the room so much testifying of the truth of the gospel.
We need to not just take the gospel and the truth we have for granted. It truly changes peoples life's and has the power to do anything we can imagine. I love and know this gospel is true. And i hope all of you do to. I love and miss all of you guys and hope you have a great week.

Love 

Elder Peterson