April 25, 2016

Buenas!!

Hey everyone i hope that everyone is doing great!! This week has been good and we had a good week.So in the address that i gave yall i forgot to leave something out, so its 3400 Kent Ave R105 make sure you don't forget the R or they wont know what building you are talking about. But something that i realized is that Me and my friend Jordan are the only ones out of all of our friends still on missions.... so that is kind of weird!! But i love it out hear and couldn't ask for anything different!

But this week we had our Zone Conference, President Hansen and Sister Hansen came down and they gave us some great instructions that we can do in our missionary work. Sister Hansen talked to us about being prepared for hurricanes and all of that fun stuff, and always being prepared no matter what it is. And President Hansen talked to us about goals, and how he should set goals that are high enough to achieve but low enough that they are realistic. It was super good and I learned so much. Also the Assistants to the President came down and gave a great instruction as well about inspired questions. They did a role play and while they were teaching they would stop when he need to ask a question, and they asked us what is the question that needs to be asked right now, and they would have us listen to the spirit and see what he needed at that time! It was super good, and it taught me how much different a lesson can go when we are always asking questions that are inspired!

This week though has been pretty slow again, we have definitely been very humbled this week. Because we have been trying all of our investigators and been trying to find more people to teach and no one has been answering the door, its been pretty crazy but we are trying our best to be diligent and show the lord that we are trying our best. But this week we had a pretty interesting conversation with a less active, we was talking about his life back in Nicaragua, and how different it is over there then here. And he talked to us about all the opportunity's we have over here in the states. And how in his country they barely make 5 or so dollars a week and have to take care of there family, and have a home, and food and all of that stuff on about dollars a week! He while he was saying that i don't think until that point i realized how bless we really are here, and everything that we have been given, and how much we take for granted.
And i kept thinking about it, and as members of the church how often to we take for granted the church we have been given. No only that, but the power and authority from god, and temples to be able to seal family's for ever, and the simple doctrine that we have to make us happy in our own life's. And also the sacrament that we get to participate in every week, do we try take it for granted that we can go and partake of those emblems of the Atonement each and every week, or are we trying our best through the Atonement to become better and use his sacrifice to help us return to him? I guess i have realized how really grateful i am for these things in my life, and i have been trying ever day to remember them, and not be taking advantage of them and be so very grateful to my father in heaven for everything he has given me and helped me threw.

But i love yall and hope yall love this church and gospel as much as i do, I am always praying for you and hope that the lord is taking care of you!!

Elder Peterson