Sorry this email is a little late, We have had Mardi Gras this past week and everything has been shut down. So today we finally got to come to the computer lab and finally email everyone! But Mardi Gras has been crazy, We got to go to a couple of parades and it was super fun. But this week has been super crazy and fun and everything in between, but everything has been going good.
But to start off the week, we got to go up to Baton Rouge again this week for MLC(Mission Leadership Conference), and that we pretty good I guess. We talked a lot about self reflection, and looking at our selves and becoming better,not only as a missionary, but as a person as well. It was super good and I learned a lot from it. But from there we went and have to prepare our ZTM(Zone Training Meeting). It was pretty long to plan because we had to plan in with our Sister Training Leaders, and the other New Orleans English Zone leaders, because we do it at the same time and the sisters go back and forth from our zones instructing. But our Zone Conference went well and I thought i was a good uplifting experience for everyone. Then right after our ZTM we got to go on exchanges with the Westbank Elders. We had a good time, we went and did some service and cut down some plantain tree's, and went to taught some people. It was a good exchange and we got a lot done.
But then this week we got to go a couple Mardi Gras Parades, We went to one called ZULU. And that one is really fun. It is a all black parade and they only people who throw beads are black, and they dress up in cool outfits and throw out coconuts. It was super fun and just a ton of crazy people out and around. Then we went to another parade right after that one called REX, and in this one every single float makes there own special bead, so it was kind of fun trying to gather everyone special one because they were really cool. But it was super fun and i would love to come back some day.But one Tender Mercy that we had this week, Elder Cooley and I were out trying to get a hold of some of the Pi's that we had in a area, and try to follow up with them. We start to look for them and knock on some doors as well, we finally find one of the doors we were looking for, that one of the Pi's had lived in. We knock on the door and a different man answers the door, and we just treated it like a door approach. He let us in and we had a great lesson with him, we talked about his family and have they could live together and just really tried to follow the spirit and find out what he really needed in this life. After the message he told us he was very grateful and he was going to read the pamphlet so we could come back and answer all of his questions that he might have. It was such a great experience to see how the spirit puts you in contact with the people who have been prepared, even though we thought we were going to go and see some one completely different, her cousin answered the door and was the one who really needed the message. We are still going to follow up with the other lady and her husband, but it was a good experience to see how important that it is that we have the spirit, so we can be a tool for him, to find the people who are prepared,and teach the doctrine that they need at that time. And that we aren't using him as a tool, but we are tools for him to use, and we choose how sharp of a tool we will be. But that is about all for this week, I sent my mom some pictures so look on the blog to see some of them! But thanks for all you do and i hope yall have a great week Love and miss yall!!
Elder Peterson
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