Hey yall!
I hope that everyone is doing great! Sorry i am emailing on a Tuesday but the Library's were closed because of Memorial day this Monday. But we had a great week this last week and got a good amount of stuff done! Well on Pday we got to play some basketball, and hang out it was a good time, we tried to go to the trampoline park but they were full and we couldn't get it but it was alright we went and played more basketball!
But then we had exchanges this last week and we had a good time. We were out contacting trying to find some people to teach and there was a black guy that was sitting on this box so were walking past, and he yelled at us and said, " I know y'all aren't trying to sell anything in this neighborhood what are y'all doin here?" So we walked over and started to talk to him, he told us it was his birthday and was just hanging out. So while we were right there we started to teach him the restoration. He said that he liked it and would think about coming to our church. We had a fun and great exchange and talked to some funny people.
The next day we got to go out with our branch president and talk to some less actives in the branch! It was really good we got to go and see who we wanted to and it was awesome, another funny story though from this was, we were at a members house they hadn't come to church for a couple of weeks so he wanted to visit them! We went there and they saw we had the branch president with us it got very awkward, we started talking and he asked my comp and i to go and wait for him in the car while he talked to them about some stuff.
So while we were waiting in the car me and my comp had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night in this little neighborhood, that had a mini forest next to it. So we start walking over by the forest so we can go to the bathroom, and a Hispanic drives up to us by these trash cans right before we were going to go into the forest to use the bathroom! We are looking really sketchy just us two hanging out by a couple of huge garbage cans in this no so nice neighborhood in the middle of the night! So he backs up by the cans and we thought we might as well ask him if he needs some because we are here acting sketchy anyways, so we ask him if we can help him with all this furniture and garbage that he had in the back of his truck. At first he was hesitant, but he said he would love out help. After dumping everything he asked us who we were, and why we were dressed the way we were. We tell him about the church and all that good stuff, and he told us that he would love for us to stop by and teach him about what we believe! We were very surprised, but we got his address and his number and set a day we could come by. After he left i was about to explode and i finally got to go in the forest! And while i was there there were a bunch of firefly's so that was cool!
Then the next day we got to go to the Bishop's Store House and help out there, and it was super cool.
Then my comp and i went down to downtown Baton Rouge and gave out about every single pass along card about the Book of Mormon to basically everyone we could see! We had a good time and got some cool pictures, But i forgot my camera so next week i will have it! But everything is going great. This last week is was kind of funny to see some of the opportunity's we had to share the gospel with people, and how they were put into our path! But i hope everyone is great and i hope to hear from all yall in a email next week!
Elder Peterson
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