Hey Yall!!
So this week was very interesting and pretty fun at the same time! But yes it did rain, quite a bit I would say!! I actually have a really funny story about it, but i will save it for later! But there was a ton of flooding over in the Hammond area, and i was hoping we could go and do a ton of service over there, because the floods were so high. But we didn't get to go and it was kind of a bummer! But we had some cool stuff this week, and we went on 2 exchanges so i have some funny story's from that!
But for the first of the week we went and did some service at this huge city park there in New Orleans. We planted a bunch of plants and helped them fix a bunch of stuff. It was pretty fun and it was pretty hot so i got a little sunburned! Then later that day we got a called that a non-member needed some help moving some stuff, so we went to his house and it was so awesome. It was a house that had been one of the first ones in New Orleans, it was super old and had a ton of cool and old creepy stuff. The people that helped him with the house say it is haunted.... but it wasn't scary at all, so i was a little bummed out! Then the next day we went on exchanges, and i went with Elder Quist. We went and tried to do some finding, and went to see the people that we have in our area. Then we had to go to there area for a couple of appointments that they had before. We went and saw this older man they were teaching, and he had just had surgery, he was on some painkiller's to make everything a little better! So when we tried to talk to him, he would say some really crazy stuff to us, and we couldn't really understand his Spanish. But when we needed to go we asked him if we could say a prayer. He said he wanted to say it, so he started the prayer, and he just kept going, and kept going, and kept going. And at this point we he is basically saying the same four things in a row, and its been almost 20 minutes, and it didn't look like he was going to be finishing any time soon. So we just kind of said amen and he was done!! It was pretty funny though because it was almost a 30 minute prayer, and i have never had to end a prayer that wasn't mine!!
Then we got to go on another exchange, i went with Elder Karn, and we had a pretty good time. They don't have a car so we got to do some biking. And before i hadn't been feeling to good and felt really sick, so we rested for a bit, and i was sick of being in the apartment so we went out and saw some people. (This is also the story i was talking about in the beginning about the rain.) So we went out and we had a dinner appointment, we went up and picked of the food that this member had made for us, and went and tried to find a place to eat it. Well we couldn't eat it at her house because she is a old single women, so we just pick it up from her every week, and when we finally found a spot to eat it.... there were no forks in with the food. So we sat on the bench and drank our sprites and just talked for a while, we had a really good talk and we put the food back on the carrying thing Elder Karn has on his bike and we went off!
We tried to go and visit some people and not a ton of people were home at the time, so we tried to knock some doors and do some finding. Then we decided we needed to try to go to this less active in our area. So we went over to there house and they had some Baleadas made, so we got some food and had a good lesson with them. And while we were leaving it started to pour rain!! And there was so much lighting, and thunder it was nuts! So we had about a half an hour ride home. When we were riding i was so wet i really didnt care anymore, we were riding our bikes off of jumps into puddles, and everyone was looking at us like we were crazy! I don't think i have been that soaked like that in my entire life. It was super fun!!
But that is about all the excitement for this week,I hope that yall have a good week and be safe!! Love and miss yall!!
Elder Peterson
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