January 26, 2015

Hello Everyone!
This week was crazy and fun and kind of sad. Basically everything in between. But to start it off we went up to Baton Rouge for Stake Conference this last Sunday and it was very good. Very long, but very good!
But on Tuesday, we got a call from one of our investigators girlfriend. And she told us that she thinks that he boyfriend needs some help because he hadn't been acting the same lately then he had before. And we had kind of noticed that he had been acting a little fishy. So we went out to find him and, I had a feeling that we needed to teach about the Word of Wisdom. We were driving around trying to find him were we knew he would be and we just couldn't find him. So we went over to his grandmother's house. She then told us how he had been taken to jail earlier in the day. And that we could go and try to see him if we wanted because he really wanted to see us.
We were very bummed out because we had been praying and wanting to help this guy out so bad because he wanted to change his life around as well. So we walked to our car with our heads down and very bummed out. Then a man that was standing on his car and he asked us to come and talk to him. He asked why we looked the way we did, and what had happened to his friend. So we told him the little bit we knew and he was very surprised. Then we started to talk to him about what we do and a bunch of other stuff.
Then he asks us what our thought is about drinking. He told us that his family thought that he drank way to much and wanted him to stop. So we started to talk to him about the Word of Wisdom, and how we got it and how we should follow this commandment and how it can help us in our life's. He really liked what we had to say and he said that we was going to stop drinking. He also said that we could come by anytime that we wanted and talk to him about what we believe. It was very awesome, and a eye opening experience that we might think we know what we are going to teach someone and even who needs it at the time. I thought that we needed to teach our investigator the Word of Wisdom. But come to find out his neighbor needed it more at that time then him.
Sometimes when we think that we have this figured out and know what is going on, the lord likes to throw us a little curve ball so we can remember and learn from each experience. I hope that you guys have a great week and keep up on your scriptures and prayers! Love and miss y'all

Elder Peterson