Hey Everyone!
How is it going? I hope that everyone had a great week and is doing great. We had a pretty exciting week here in Louisiana. We had the opportunity to be able to see Elder Ronald A. Rasband, from the Quorum of the Twelve. And Elder Zwick from the Seventy came with him, and they gave us a great instruction. We also went on exchanges with the Assistants this week, so we went to Baton Rouge twice this week.
But we will start off from the first couple of days to the last. So on Tuesday we had our district meeting and it was very good, we talked about becoming a consecrated missionary and what it means to be that. And trying to apply it to missionary work. It was very good to see what we need to sacrifice not only on the mission but after the mission as well. Then on Wednesday we ran our of miles for our car so we had the great opportunity to walk the rest of the week. So we walked almost 20 miles or so, and that was super fun. Then on Thursday we went on exchanges with the Assistants. It was super good time, I went with a Elder who's name is Elder Brown. He is awesome and a great missionary. But we basically tracted all day an tried o visit some people but we did have a pretty cool story from it. Elder Brown and I were doing a little tracting, and finding. So we had been knocking doors for a while, and literally nobody had answered there door. And if they did they told us no thanks, but we had one more house left before another appointment. We knocked on the door, and we waited and no one came again. Then a older man came from down the drive way and told us that we can't be selling anything here, that it is a no soliciting neighborhood. We told him that we weren't selling anything but we had brought a message of the love Jesus Christ has for each and everyone of us. And before he was very hesitant to talk to us or anything, but he looked at us and then our tags and said. " Y'all have the name of the lord on y'all chest so you cant be doing anything to bad I guess." then he started to talk to us about his search for the truth, and he had looked at almost every church but the LDS church and he said we would love if we came by another day to visit him. It was so amazing to see how the spirit was working through him and how it softened his heart to let us talk to him and make a return appointment. It was really great
Then Friday we were walking again, and we got caught up in some Mardi Gras Parades, because the main streets they go down it right next to our apartment , and there is no way we can miss it. We tried to see some people but they were all at he parade. So on Saturday we went back up to Baton Rouge and got the chance to listen to Elder Rasband, and Elder Zwick. It was such a great message, he talked about one of his talks he gave a while back in General conference "The Divine Call of a Missionary." It was really good and talked to us a little bit about the keys we hold and how great our calling is. Then he talked to us about names, and how important names are, and they we are always using the lords name to testify with, and remembering the names of the people we teach. And its a little hard sometimes in the Hispanic culture, because everyone calls each other, Hermano or Hermana. Which means brother, and sister. But it was super cool. He also talked a little bit about him coming here, and why he was there. But he said he truly didn't know why he was there, and he was excited to find out threw this conference because he wasn't assigned to go here. He chose on his own to come to our mission. But it was such a great conference and the spirit was so strong! We are so luck to be lead by such inspired leaders. He should us his notes before he came and there was like to lines, he told us he hadn't prepared anything and wanted to go by the spirit. And he continued to talk to us for the next 2 hours!! But i love yall and hope yall are doing great be safe and have a great week!!
Elder Peterson
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