Elder Braydon Peterson: January 25, 2016

Buenos Dias!!

How is everyone doing? I hope that everyone had a great week and is doing fine. We had a pretty good week this week and we also look like we are going to have another good week here. But for the weather lately it has been pretty cool and raining a ton, the other day we were on tornado watch for a while so that was fun! But nothing came from it so it was pretty lame. But i have a pretty funny story from the other day.

So my companion and I had a great day planned and we were going to go visit a ton of people and had a ton of appointments to get ready for. I walked out side to see what the weather was going to be like, and it felt really good it was pretty warm, not very many clouds and i was really excited to go out and get somethings done. So we start off our day by trying to go and visit lady that we had seen a couple of times, and she is pretty interested in the gospel. So we park our car, and we walk around the corner and we knock on her door, and she answers and tells us she was about to leave and that she didn't have time today, so we set up a return appointment and walked back around the corner to our car. We had been out of our car for about 3 minutes, and we turn the corner and our car is getting put on the back of a tow truck!! So we walk up to the guy and ask him what he was doing and why he was towing our car. So he tells us that we don't have a pass to park where we parked. But we told him that it was a visitors parking space and we didn't need a pass. He insisted that we need a pass to also park in the visitor area.
We called his boss and the apartment manager and tried to see what we could do to get our car down and he wasn't going to budge, we looked around and there were no signs that said that we would be towed or anything. So after a while he told us he had to go, he gave us a card for the lot and took off. So Elder Cooley and I just kind of looked at each other and had no idea what to do because we were pretty far away from our house and we had no idea how we were going to get the car back. We called the office and told them what happened, and we had to call some other Elders to come and pick us up. So finally after all the madness and everything we finally got our car back at around 5:30 and almost everything we had planned for that day was gone! Haha it was a pretty funny experience and i learned some patience from it, that is for sure.

But other then that we had a great week, we got to visit a ton of people and found some pretty cool new people as well. We also had a Zone conference and President Hansen came down and so did his wife, and we had a great meeting. We watched a broadcast that Elder Oaks, Elder Anderson and some other Seventies did for the missionary's. And it was super good, I learned a ton from it. They talked about how we aren't the teacher but its the holy ghost who is the teacher, and he is not a tool for us, but we are the tool for him. And we have to make sure that we are worthy for his companionship, so we are being a tool he can use, and not being a barrier for him! It was super good and we all learned a ton!

We had a great week this week and i hope that yall have been safe and having fun. I pray for yall every night and hope the best for yall. I will send some pictures of some service we did sorting Mardi Gras beads! I never want to see beads again in my life!! But have a great week and be safe.

Elder Peterson