I hope that everyone had a good week and a great Easter weekend as well!! This week was pretty crazy and fun, but everything is doing great down here in Louisiana! This week we didn't go on any exchanges so it was pretty nice to be able to stay in our area and have kind of a more calm and relaxed week!
But I guess to start off this week, we went up to Baton Rouge for our MLC (Mission Leadership Training) and we talked about a ton of stuff. We talked about the mission, and what we can do in our specific Zones to really help the work progress, and how we can help everyone to have the best experience in there mission! The mission Presidents wife gave a great instruction about attitude, and she used a story in the New Era from 1973 called Missionary Metamorphosis. It kind of talked about his attitude throughout his mission and how things change and how his perspective changed throughout his mission. It was really good, and that is what Elder Cooley and I based our instruction off of. But I guess that one thing I never really realized with your attitude, is that there will be things in your life that will be put in your path, and your can't control that. But the thing you can control is how you react to the situation, and your attitude through it all. There were a lot of cool things that i was able to learn, and I really think that it really helped out with our Zone, and maybe how they look to adversity, or suffering.
But other then that we had the rest of the week to go and see some people. We had some cool experiences, But for now no actual investigators that are progressing, we don't have to much of that going on right now. We have dropped a couple people from our teaching pool, which i really don't like doing. But i know that the lord will continue to prepare the people who are willing and have a open heart! We got to see an Investigator who has been pretty busy and we haven't been able to see him. But we had a great lesson with him, and he wanted us to show him some of our favorite scriptures in the Book of Mormon so he could read and ponder them. Also another story, I am not sure if I already told y'all but, about a month or so ago i called a potential investigator to see if we could meet up with him. And so we were just getting home, and we got a call from him, it kind of threw me off because no one ever calls us back or tries to set up an appointment. So i answered and started to talk to him, come to find out he had been trucking, and while he was trucking we called him, and right when we called him he had just ran out of minutes, and his phone died. He didn't have money to pay for more minutes, and he was on the rode so if he did have money and he didn't have the chance to active the phone back. He said he felt bad that it took him so long to call back, but he really wanted to call us back and meet with us. It was pretty crazy for me, because that was probably the first time in my mission anything like that has ever happened to me!! But we have had a good couple of weeks, and we are just trying to find the people that have been prepared!
But on Easter, right before church i had the chance to read in Matthew, right when he atoned for our sins and died on the cross, and the three days after he was resurrected. What a great story that is for each and every single one of us, it really remind me of our luck we are to have the atonement in our life's. And the Christ was able to over come Justice, and because of the atonement we can have that eternal progression of becoming exalted!! And it is such and example to me ever time I read it, that he was able to over come everyone's sins and not only that but to even over come death. But i think a great point that we should always remember is that we do have our agency, but it isn't free agency, because what he paid for and what he did for us to have that, wasn't free at all. And with every decision we have in the life we have that agency that was already paid for, and i think that sometimes we take it for grated. I know I sure do, but the atonement is a lot closer to us that we really think! But i love y'all and hope that y'all had a great Easter!! I love y'all and I love this Gospel!!
Elder Peterson
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