tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35468161061688673282024-03-12T21:27:40.433-07:00Elder Preston Peters: New York Rochester MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-4705634317141322532017-01-02T10:45:00.004-08:002017-01-02T10:45:45.485-08:00<div style="direction: inherit; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">
"Don't be mean in '17!" 🌎✌️</div>
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Hey Everyone!</div>
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Hope you had a great week and a great New Years Day! What a wonderful opportunity we had to renew our covenants (a two-way promise between us and God) to begin the year! As we welcome in this new year, let's try to be more like the Savior this year. Each and every year we should become more and more like Him! He is our best role model. As we strive to be more like Him, we will be blessed more than we can know. </div>
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Yesterday at church, there was a guy who gave a talk and he said that the slogan for the new year is "Don't Be Mean in '17!" I like that!</div>
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This week was a pretty successful week! We found some new people to teach and we are continuing to teach those who are working with. We taught Rock and Yvonne again this week and they are now preparing to be baptized <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); color: black;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on February 19th</a>! So exciting for them and their family! I love those guys so much. </div>
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On Wednesday we were on exchanges with the APs (assistants to the president). Elder Broadhead went to their area in Rochester with Elder Bell and Elder Larson came here with me. We had a super cool day! We taught some lessons but there were two that really stuck out to me. </div>
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We first taught a less active member who has been offended and stays away from church because of the offense he's taken. Elder Broadhead and I have been working with him, trying to help him get over these things to no avail. But when Elder Larson and I went on Wednesday, we listened to him and then followed the Spirit and testified with power of the importance of the Sacrament. The Spirit softened his heart so much that he not only had a desire to attend church, but he also has a desire to meet with us more often so he could continue to grow his desire to attend again! </div>
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Another lesson we had was with an investigator who has been struggling with a certain commandment. And because she doesn't feel like she can live that commandment, she felt devastated because she cannot be baptized just yet. She didn't want to meet with us a couple weeks ago but recently, we have been able to start meeting with her again. We went and brought some materials that we thought could help her. We testified with the Spirit and it was almost a night and day difference of where she was before the lesson to how she was after the lesson! The Spirit truly does testify of truth and softens peoples' heart when there is truth being shared. I love it! </div>
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Keep this scripture in mind as you implement your New Years resolutions! Mosiah <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); color: black;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">3:19</a> says:</div>
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"19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."</div>
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I love you all! Thank you so much for all you do. Your prayers are felt. Keep on keepin on! </div>
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1- Seneca Lake Seflie with the Geneva elders</div>
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Talofa Everybody!<br /><br />It amazes me how much Christmas Spirit the people here have. I mean, there are 364 days till Christmas and people already have their Christmas lights up! </div>
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Merry Christmas! I hope you all had a great day yesterday. I love Christmas because we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. He loves us all so much! That's why He came to earth. To teach us; to help and allow us to return to the presence of our loving Heavenly Father. Without our Savior, we would have no hope for a better life after this one. Without our Savior, there would be no reason for us to be here. God loved us so He sent His Son! I love my Big Brother Jesus Christ. I know He loves me too and that He loves all of us! </div>
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This week was a fun week. We had some fun Christmas things that we did. Yesterday was a blast getting to talk to the fam bam. I miss you all so much! </div>
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This week we had a Zone Meeting in Canandaigua. That was great getting to see everyone and to learn from others. We gave a training on planning and teaching. Both of which play big roles in missionary work. </div>
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Funny experience of the week. Well, there are two that I'll share. The first one happened when we were going door to door. We knocked on one house and this super old guy answered the door. Like we're talking OLD! He said, "I can't see ya." As he got uncomfortably close to see if he could see us. But he was almost totally blind because of age. When we spoke, he looked at us with his toothless mouth gaping open. "I can't hear you!" Haha then his wife or someone came to the door and told us that they were all set. But it was just funny. Later on that same hour, we had just found someone who was really nice and said we could come back. I wasn't really focused on walking as we were walking away because I was so happy that we found someone that was open. We walked down the driveway and all of a sudden, my feet slipped out from under me and I hit the ground HARD! All I could do was laugh at myself. Because laughing relieves pain lol. Stinkin' ice. </div>
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Another funny experience, we were meeting with a member family and they were telling us about how the guy who invented the Heimlich maneuver died. Without thinking, I asked, "Oh no! Did he choke?!" Haha </div>
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The Mission Christmas Conference was off da hook! I loved it! My district performed the Hukilau everyone loved it. I got to see all my homies that I've served around and been companions with. I love those guys. You really do learn a lot from all those who surround you. President Evans closed the conference by teaching about the Sacrament and the importance of preparing ourselves to partake of it every week. There were many missionaries who shared beautiful musical numbers to bring the Spirit. (Shout out to Elder Stokes for rockin it on the piano!) Spirit was so strong the whole time there. It was great!</div>
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I learned so much about my Savior this week as we prepared ourselves to partake of the Sacrament. My Savior is my best friend and He is the best friend to all of us. He knows exactly <b><i>how</i></b> to help all of us. I know He loves all of us and that He continues to show us His love as we keep His commandments and serve Him. </div>
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I miss you all so much! Thanks for the love and support that you give me eve day. You all rock! It's was a bummer not being able to be home wi you guys for Christmas this year, but remember: "I'll be home for Christmas" 😎🎄🎅</div>
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1-2 Hukilau performance at the Christmas Conference</div>
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Check out <a href="http://mormon.org/">Mormon.org</a> to see how you can #LightTheWorld. Each and every day leading up to Christmas there is a different theme of how we can be more like Jesus and spread the real Christmas spirit this Christmas season. I have seen my testimony of the Savior grow as I have been participating in this wonderful event. It's great. Go check it out! Let me know how everything goes! </div>
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We had a stellar week here in New York. Lots of cool things happening. Transfers are tomorrow, we were told where we are going last night. Elder Broadhead and i are staying here in Waterloo! I love being here in <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); color: black;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors="true">Waterloo</a>! I'm glad they kept us here.</div>
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This week we went on a couple exchanges with some elders in Canandaigua and Geneva. I went with Elder Holmes and then Elder Leon. We saw many miracles this week as we worked hard. (I know that I always say that there are miracles happening, but there are! The Lord keeps blessing us more and more everyday) </div>
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A really cool miracle that happened this week happened when I was on exchanges with Elder Leon. We were pulling in to our driveway after doing some service that morning. I saw a lady who looked like she and another person were struggling with moving some things into her house. I felt prompted to go and talk to her. So we did. It was really awkward to initiate conversation, but as soon as I said, "hi! We saw you were moving. Could you use any help?" She looked at us and quickly said, "oh my gosh are you Mormons?!" I thought she was going to say something mean or something. "I was married to a Mormon!" Turns out her husband was Mormon but he had passed on. She told us that he had come to her in a dream and told her that everything was going to be alright. She is struggling through cancer. She had a friend in the hospital that day who was receiving her first chemo treatment. She had a deadline to meet to clear out everything from her storage unit and not much help. God led us to her. She was so happy and overwhelmed and she felt God's love really strong that day. She just kept sayinthank you the whole time we were there. She was even brought to tears as she realized how much God had blessed her. And all we did was help her move! God knows us all and what we are going through. The coolest thing is that He know just how to help us feel better. I love my Heavenly Father! I know He loves me. I know He loves you guys! </div>
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Rick and Yvonne came to church this week! They loved it! I love those guys so much. Things are going well for them. Thanks for all the prayers in their behalf! Your prayers are felt here! </div>
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I love you guys so much! Thanks for all you do for me and for everyone around you! Keep on being good example of Christ! I love you all so much! Have a great week. I'll talk to you soon. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 17pt;">This week Elder Broadhead and I drove up to Pittsford for MLC or Mission Leadership Council. Basically, all the zone leaders, sister training leaders, and President Evans and his assistants all got together and discussed how we can better help the mission be more successful. President gave us a couple trainings. He is such a stud. He is awesome! He taught us about obedience and if we as leaders are exactly obedient, we can help the culture of the mission to be more obedient. Which will then bring about much more success in the mission because the Lord will bless us more. MLC was a blast. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 17pt;">Elder Broadhead and i went down to Hornell which is an hour and a half drive south (our zone is the biggest zone area wise) to give a training at their district meeting. I got to see Elder Gardner! It was a fun reunion and it was a blast getting to spend time with the missionaries here. I loved so much to hear their testimonies and the inspired work that they are doing in their respective areas. Elder Broadhead and i gave a training on love. We taught about how we should love those that we serve because they arent going to care how much we know until they know how much we care. It was a good time. </span></div>
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On Tuesday, Elder Gardner and I went up to Amherst (Buffalo Stake Center) to meet with all the other missionaries in Buffalo for transfers. Elder Gardner and I hopped in the mission van and we all road tripped out to Pittsford. There, I met up with my new companion Elder Broadhead and we drove out to our area after we took care of some zone stuff. </div>
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Waterloo is great! This was previously a sister missionary area. So a lot of people are confused when we answer the phone haha. I guess they don't expect to hear our deep voices haha. But Waterloo is a great area. I am so excited be here serving super close to Palmyra. </div>
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This week we went on exchanges with the assistants to the president. Elder Gibby came here to Waterloo with me! It was great. We spent a lot of time out in Batavia together so it was easy for us to work hard together. We went and found a couple new investigators that seem promising!</div>
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We went to the ward Halloween party at the church. It was fun. We took a district Halloween pic. We got to know the ward pretty well. I am already loving the people here. Their awesome. Definitely different from Orchard Park but it's fun. </div>
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This area is so beautiful. We drive around Seneca Lake all the time because we live in Geneva and our area is Waterloo. So it's a really pretty drive. The finger lakes are so pretty. Seneca and Cayuga lakes are the biggest. And Waterloo is equidistant from both! It's sweet. </div>
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This week I had the opportunity to speak in church. I spoke on the talk from General Conference a few years ago by Sister Ann M. Dinn entitled, "I Know It, I Live It, I Love It". It's a great talk. I spoke about the phrase, "I Believe". I was so stinkin nervous to speak in front of the new Ward. I didn't know if I had enough things to talk about but I ended up going and speaking for 20 minutes! Oops haha. Oh well. </div>
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We were so busy this week! We had lots of service activities. We did anything and everything from moving fridges to hanging dry wall. We got to teach quite a bit too! It was a great week! I loved it. </div>
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Wednesday night was cool. The youth had an activity planned where they would go on splits with us. So We took a youth with us and split up and were able to do twice the amount of work we would've been able to do that night. I took JoshHunter with me and went and street contacted on a main intersection in Orchard Park. We talked to some people and shared a little bit with them. No one was really interested but we were able to share a little bit of what we stand for. We had a funny experience with contacting someone. We were sitting at an intersection waiting for the light to change so we could cross when I saw someone walking their dog down the street. We went over and tried to talk to her. When she saw us coming, she tried to escape by walking her dogs into the 7 Eleven parking lot. I reached out and said, "How are you doing tonight maam?" She replied awkwardly, "good...How are you?" I could kinda tell she didn't want to talk but I asked anyways, "Could we ask a quick question?" She said, "No not right now...I have my dogs with me." That was probably one of the lamest excuses I have ever heard ever. We had a good laugh about it afterward haha. It was fun. </div>
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We had a lady who we taught over the phone last week meet us at the church with our ward mission leader. Elder Gardner and Elder Davis taught her with Brother Prasad while I was on exchanges for the day. But they were able to give her a tour of the church and teach her a lesson there. She committed to be baptized in November! Super cool! The Lord has blessed us with people to teach because of our hard work! </div>
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Oh! This week I went over to the Schmidt family's house for dinner and Brother Schmidt found out that my favorite food is crab so he bought some king crab and we chewed down! I was so happy haha. It was a dream come true. </div>
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This week will probably be my last in Orchard Park :( Transfers are next week, I have been here for six months, and Elder Gardner is done being trained so everything points to me leaving when we get the calls next week! It's a bummer but we're gonna get out there and work hard this week! </div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">This week we visited and taught one of our investigators named Evan. He is in his early twenties. We met him tracting a while ago. In the past, he has had negative feelings/ideas about God. But recently, he has been praying a lot more and meeting with us and has become a lot more positive about God! Its truly amazing how much prayer and scripture study help us. We met with him a couple times this week and he committed to be baptized! He committed to prepare to be baptized <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on October 29th</a>! Which sadly, i might not be here... but thats not what matters! What matters is him deciding to follow in Christ's footsteps and be baptized by proper Priesthood authority! Evan is doing great. I think he really enjoys meeting with us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">This week fall started! Its been getting a little chilly here. So, we had to whip out the sweaters the other day. I love sweater weather. Its real refreshing because all summer we have been sweating like pigs because of the humidity. But thats what the weather is like here :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Elder Marks this week to his area. We taught a cool guy named Rotex who is all about God. He loves to talk about the Gospel. He is from Nigeria too. That was cool. But i think the coolest part about my exchange with Elder Marks was teaching a less active member named Richard Thrift. Richard joined the church in the UK (he has the coolest accent btw). He has been inactive for 22 years! We went and visited with him and he ended up coming to church yesterday!!! He is so solid and is really wanting to get back in to the church and becoming active again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">This week we received a challenge to read some chapters in the Book of Mormon and in the Bible. Hebrews 11, Alma 32, Ether 12, and the Bible Dictionary: Faith. As you can tell, these chapters teach us about faith. Hebrews 11 talks about things that faith enables us to do. Alma 32 gives the great analogy of faith being like a seed, if planted it will grow. The Bible Dictionary had a great definition of faith as well. But the chapter that stood out to me the most was Ether 12 in the Book of Mormon. What a great chapter! I learned so much as i read. I really like how it says multiple times throughout the chapter that it isnt until AFTER the trial of our faith that we receive a witness. I love that we arent going to be given everything. We have to work for it! As we show our faith through scripture study and prayer and church attendance and serving others, we are showing the Lord our faith in Him and he will bless. He will ALWAYS bless us. I know it because ive seen it in my life! </span></div>
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We got some more newbies in our district this week! Elder Gold is from Boise, Idaho and Elder Davis is from Overland Park, Kansas! I used to live there too! It's super cool. Elder Olson is the other new missionary but he's not new to the mission. He just got transferred to our district. We are having so much fun because guess what?! Rather than just having four missionaries in our district, we now have six! So you know what that means....3 on 3 basketball!!! It's super fun haha. The other morning we were playing and Elder Gardner threw an alley oop to Elder Gold and he threw it down with two hands! We are confident that we can take any district in the mission! Haha</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey Everyone!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The Lord blessed us so much this week! It is so great realizing the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">ways He blesses us on a daily basis. He is with us every step of the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">way! He loves us and wants the very best for us.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was good. I started off by going on exchanges with the zone</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">leaders. Elder Ahola from Finland came to Orchard Park (he served her</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">before me) and we did some work down here. In the meanwhile, Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Gardner went up to Lancaster with Elder Leifson. While Elder Ahola was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">here, we taught the Filipino lady named Abby that I talked about last</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">week in my weekly email. We were able to teach her and her husband! We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">taught about Joseph Smith and how he was a prophet of God, called to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">restore the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth. They</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">were interested! We read Moroni 10: 3-5 with them. This is a reference</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">from the Book of Mormon. Moroni (who was the last prophet to write in</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the Book of Mormon before they were buried to later be translated by</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Joseph Smith) promises that if we read and pray with real intent and a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">sincere heart, then the Holy Ghost with manifest the truth of all</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">things unto us. When we read that, we challenged them to read and pray</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with sincere hearts. They both were willing to do so! They seemed</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">sincere and even desirous to do so! It was so cold. The Spirit was so</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">strong there as we bore testimony to them. It was great. Exchanges</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with Elder Ahola were great. I learned so much from him.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Yesterday, we got the transfer email yesterday and Elder Gardner and I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">are staying together in Orchard Park! That means I will be here for 6</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">months just like Batavia! So cool! Oh! And we are getting two more</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionaries in our district! One of which was just released from</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">being an assistant to the Mission President! Oh and another thing.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Marks, Elder Olson, and I will all be training. So we will have</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">three greenies in our district! Haha fun! It's gonna be great!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We have been working lot with the members here trying to involve them</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">in missionary work as much as possible. They are doing well. I feel</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">like they all have a desire to be involved but sometimes may not know</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">just how to do so or lack the courage to do so. So, our job is to help</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">them feel more comfortable in sharing the Gospel with their friends</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and family. We have been applying Elder M. Russell Ballard's promise</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">that he gave in a general conference a while ago. And that promise is</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">that if the full-time missionaries kneel in prayer and ask for our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">fear to be replaced wi faith when it comes to missionary work, then</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">more missionary opportunities and miracles will occur on both sides of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the situation. We've seen great things come from it. We've received</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">referrals and members are a lot more missionary-minded! All this has</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">made me think. Was I as involved in missionary work as much as I could</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">have been back home? Or was I scared? Or nervous? Or did I not know</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">how to reach out? Was I scared that I might ruin friendships? All</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">these thoughts and doubts about sharing the Gospel come from the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">adversary. He doesn't want us to share the Gospel and the Light that</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">accompanies it. But I know that as we all reach out to our fellow</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">children of God, that we will be blessed and we will share the Light</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">that we love so much with the world. The Lord said, "Ye are the light</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick;</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Father which is in heaven." Let us all press forward and seek out</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">those who are ready to hear the Gospel. The Lord is preparing people</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to bring each and every day. There are people in your lives NOW that</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">are ready to hear the Gospel of can at least benefit from its message.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">My invitation to all of you is to kneel In prayer and earnestly ask</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">our Heavenly Father who we can help. I wanna hear how it goes with</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">you! Shoot me an email when you try this out. I wanna hear the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">miracles that come from this! Whether it be by service, by our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">examples, by love, by our testimonies. It is my testimony that there</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">are people who need the Gospel and are looking for it. We just have to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">show them where it is!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">His week we were teaching a less active lady who has recently been</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">coming back to activity in the church. We have been teaching her he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionary lessons and she is loving it! She really has a great desire</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to com back and to regain her testimony! It's great to see. This week</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">we were talking about the Plan of Salvation. She and her brother love</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Pokemon so I used a Pokemon analogy in the lesson about how we gain</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">EXP (experience) here in life to help us grow and to eventually become</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the Charizard that God knows we can become. They kinda paused and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">looked at me. Then said, "that's awesome. I love the nerdiness</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">relating it to Pokemon!" Pretty proud moment right there haha. Oh! And</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I also made a LEGO analogy with this kid who is preparing to be</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">baptized. I quoted Helaman <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">5:12</a> and built a structure with the LEGOs</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">he was playing with. I told him that the foundation which the building</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">was built upon was Christ and that when we build upon Christ, we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">cannot fall. We had some fun teaching this week.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We had a fun experience yesterday. We had a little time before a meal</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">appointment with a family in the ward. So, we went street contacting</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">in Orchard Park. It was about time for us to head out to our meal</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">appointment when we were walking past a bar. There was a patio there</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">where people were watching football and drinking alcohol. A guy said</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to us, "keep the faith!" They then called us over to the fence by</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">their table. They weren't all the way there, but they praised us for</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">doing what we are doing at such a young age. They then said that they</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">had a bunch of questions about Jesus and everything. It was great. We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">were able to bear testimony. This guy didn't want us to go. He kept</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">telling us to come closer and keep teaching him. He would listen</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">really well to us as we bore testimony. He invited us to come to his</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">house tonight to talk about Jesus and to answer some of his questions.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It was so cool! But it was weird at the same time because who knows if</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">it was him talking or the alcohol. But we shall see tonight! Haha. He</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">kept telling us to come In and he would buy us some soda. That</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">probably wasn't the best idea. Just picture it, two missionaries</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">chilling In a bar. Yeah. That's like an oxymoron. Before we left, he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">said, "you guys come here. I'm gonna give you a big ole hug!" So he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">came up to the fence and gave us a big hug over the fence. The whole</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">bar was filled with some really happy cheering haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, thanks for all you do to strengthen me each and every day!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Your prayers are felt even as I am walking down the street talking to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">people! I love you all and am praying for you each and every day! I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">hope all is well back home. I love you all! Have a great week! I will</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">talk to you soon!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Much Love</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Oh and p.s. I was asked yesterday at our dinner appointment, "So Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Peters, do you have a football scholarship?" I sadly said no. These</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">push-ups must be paying off! Haha</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-26835339174058461892016-09-05T07:49:00.003-07:002016-09-05T07:49:28.371-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Happy SeptemberEveryone!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Is it really September already?! Wow. This year is flying by!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great! We saw lots of miracles, were able to go to the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Temple, and had a lot of fun!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We have been having a lot of success with he,ping less active members</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">coming back to the church. There is a lady in our ward who is a young</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">mom and wants to come back and set a good example for her kids! She is</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">willing to read and pray about anything and everything! She's been</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">coming to church and really showing a good desire to be in the church</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and have her kids grow up in the church! It's been a neat experience</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">so far to help her come closer to Christ and regain her testimony. I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">love being a missionary because I have such great joy when someone</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">decides to follow Christ and come unto Him.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week we had a super cool experience. A couple of months ago Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Fielding and I were tracting a street (going door to door) in East</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Aurora. We were walking down a street when we hesitated and felt like</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">we needed to wait before we went down that street. So we did. A couple</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">weeks ago with Elder Gardner, we found a Filipino lady on the street</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">that was very nice and accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon. She</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">didn't really seem interested in meeting with us though. This week, I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">felt like we needed to go back to that street again, so we did. I felt</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">as if someone were ready to hear the gospel on that street who wasnt</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">quite ready to hear it a couple of months ago. We tracted that street</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and no one was interested if they answered the door. One door we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">knocked on, we heard a kid say, "grandpa! The exterminators are here!"</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The grandpa eventually came and opened the door and looked at our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">badges. We said, "hello!" To which he replied, "goodbye!" And slammed</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the door. It was rude but kinda funny at the same time. It's funny to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">see people's reaction to us sometimes. But, the very next house that</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">we were going to knock, the Filipino lady we met a couple weeks ago</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">came out! She walked up to us and started talking to us! She was happy</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to see us. We had a good chat and we invited her to read the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">introduction to the Book of Mormon. She accepted and said we could</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">come back and teach her next week! The Lord truly does direct us to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">those He has prepared to hear His gospel. It's amazing to see His hand</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">in all of our lives each and every day. If we follow Him and the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">promoting He gives us through the Spirit, we will see miracles. He</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">knows us each individually and loves each of us.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We drove out to Palmyra this week and attended the Temple so all the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">other new missionaries and their trainers. It was great! We got to see</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Stokes and his trainee (his son; my grandson)! We took a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">posterity pic outside the Temple. It was pretty sweet. It was great to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">see Elder Stokes and how much of a stud missionary he is. He's rocking</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">out in Bath. He and Elder Neinstedt had a baptism last week! The work</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">is moving forward.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Okay now for a funny experience from this week. We were tracting</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">around a members' neighborhood before our dinner appointment with</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">them. They live in a really nice neighborhood in Orchard Park. We go</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">up to this one house and knock on the door. I told Elder Gardner, "you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">got this one." (We switch off on who does the approach or initial</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">contact) We heard a bunch of dogs barking and going crazy, ready to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">maul us as soon as the door opened. When the door opened, this lady</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">was holding back what looked like a big ole black bear by the collar</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and a bunch of other dogs ran out at us. We tried to talk to the lady</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">but the dogs were jumping on us and barking and ....it was hard to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">think. Then, the bulldog jumped up on Elder Gardners leg. Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Gardners first reaction was to protect himself so he kneed the dog</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">(more like kicked the dog) and the bulldog went flying and landed on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">its back. That dog got airborne! He went from a chubby little bulldog</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to Air Bud in a flash. The lady wasn't really interested and didn't</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">have time to talk to us. Maybe it was because her dog got got</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">kicked...actually, that was probably the reason. I was upset after</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">that because it was disrespectful to do but looking back on it now,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Gardner is still brand new and wasn't expecting that at all so</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">he had to protect himself. At the Adjusting to Missionary Life</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Meeting, President Evans asked everyone if they've had any "epic</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">fails" (yes he said epic fails haha he's awesome) on their mission so</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">far. Elder Gardner raised his hand and shared the dog experience and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">everyone thought it was hilarious. President Evans will probably</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">remember that for the rest of his mission now haha. His first round of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">new missionaries and someone is already kicking dogs haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week we also took one of the young men out with us to do some</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionary work. His name is Brett Burnard. We took him with us</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Tracting. He is going to be a senior his year but is already a rocking</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionary. He leads out I tracting approaches and is bold with</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">people. One of the first houses we knocked, a couple dogs ran out at</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">us and eventually started chasing one of the the crazy cat lady's (who</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">lives right across the street) cats. She was freaking it at the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">neighbor who's dog it was and everything while we slowly walked away</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">haha. "Your dogs gonna be in big trouble if he gets my cat!" We walked</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">away awkwardly. (We talked to the guy who's dog it was already and he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">said he wasnt interested) But he whole time we were tracting with</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Brett, I was praying that we would be able to Have just a little bit</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">of success because it's hard to find sometimes tracting. We had taken</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Brett out with us before and seen little success but I wanted him to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">be able to pass out a copy of the Book of Mormon or something. We kept</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">knocking on doors and the very last house we knocked we were able to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">share a copy of the Book of Mormon with them! It was such a blessing.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Brett was excited. The Lord grants us with the righteous desires of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">our hearts if we but serve Him with all our heart, might, mind, and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">strength!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I love being a missionary and sharing the gospel with those I come</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">into contact with. The gospel has brought so much light, peace, and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">happiness into my life and I want to share that with everyone!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Thank you all so much for the love, support, and prayers. You have</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">happened me so much. I love you all and I hope you have a great week!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">You are in my prayers! Talk to you soon!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Preston Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">From left to right: Elder Neinstedt (my grandson), Elder Stokes, me,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Gardner</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-29331552426907409742016-08-15T13:02:00.001-07:002016-08-15T13:02:54.852-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Yo yo yo!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great week. My week was good!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The weather here has been super humid lately. We were Tracting the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">other day and I went to grab a <a dir="ltr" href="http://mormon.org/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">Mormon.org</a>out of my shirt pocket. I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">pulled it out and went to put it into the door when I noticed that it</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">was soaked! We've been super sweaty here because of the humidity haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">On Saturday, we gave Tristan a church tour! He is pretty excited to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">get baptized. We taught the Word of Wisdom to him and he said that he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">already lives it! It was a bummer she he didn't show up on Sunday. He</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">just needs to come to church for Sacrament meeting and keep meeting</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with us and he should be ready! He's awesome.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The first Bills preseason game happened the other day. There were some</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">streets that were shut down because of it haha. So cool how close we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">are to the stadium. It's a great conversation starter, "is that the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Bills game?" One day we were doing some Tracting and a guy came out</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">before we could get to the door and said, "no thanks. Bills game on."</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">That's all he said before he shut the door. Too bad they lost.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The work is going well here in Orchard Park! Things are starting to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">pick up and we are working hard to continue to find and teach more</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">people. I love being a missionary. It's the hardest thing I have ever</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">done but it is also the most rewarding.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I love you all! Thank you for everything! You are the best. Have a great week!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Tofa Soifua</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-49458800106294250812016-08-08T07:49:00.003-07:002016-08-08T07:49:47.522-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey You Guys!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">How goes it? I hope all is well with you!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great! On Tuesday, Elder Fielding and I drove up to the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Amherst building (Buffalo Stake Center) and met up with the other</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionaries that were being transferred. Elder Fielding met up with</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">his new companion Elder Fauga and we headed up to Lewiston. It was sad</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">seeing him go but I know he will do great things up there in Lewiston.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I, along with some other missionaries, hopped in what we like to call</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the Millenium Falcon (it's the big silver mission van) and drove out</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to Rochester with the assistants to the president. When we got to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Rochester, the meeting where I would meet my new companion wasn't till</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the next day so we made arrangements where I would stay with Rochester</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Spanish for the day and then ride out with the other trainers in the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Rochester area to our meeting the next day. I got to be with Elders</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Broadhead and Vizcaino! They are way fun! I came into the mission</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">field with Elder Broadhead so that was fun.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">When we got to the meeting, President Evans announced the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">companionships and who would be training who and I was assigned to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">train Elder Gardner! He's super cool! He's a baller too! He's from</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Kaysville, Utah and was ready to work!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Once we got back to OP and got situated, we hit the streets and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">started talking to people! He is rockin. It's been great.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">On Thursday, we took a young man from the ward named Clayton with us</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to visit some potentials and tract a little bit. At first, we were all</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">bummed out that no one was answering. If people do answer hear, it's</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">usually, "oh I'm Catholic. We're all set here!" (Side note: We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">actually ran in to a Catholic lady the other day and when we told her</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">where we were from, she said, "I was baptized Catholic, I was married</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Catholic, and I'm gonna die a Catholic!" Everyone is Catholic here!)</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">But, we kept pushing forward. Soon enough, we knocked on a guys house</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and he said he was interested! We gave him a copy of the Book of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Mormon and said we would come back to see what he thought about it.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">When we were walking away, Clayton looked at us and said, "that was my</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">principal!" Haha. The next door we knocked, a guy answered and we had</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">a good talk. He told us that he served a mission for his church in New</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Zealand! Then he asked what we thought about the Trinity. I told him</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">that we believe in God the Father and in His Son Jesus Christ and in</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the Holy Ghost. Three separate beings that are one in purpose. We were</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">bracing ourselves to be bashed because that happens a lot here but it</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">didn't happen! He just nodded his head and said okay. We asked if we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">could come back soon and teach him and he said we could! This</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">experience was just what we needed. We were not seeing much success</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">but we didn't give up. Then, the Lord blessed us to be able to come</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">into contact with these people. It was great! And to have Clayton</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">there with us. What a blessing!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great! Elder Gardner is adapting really well in the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">mission field! He is a fast learner! It's been great working with him.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We are going to continue to work hard and we are going to exercise our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">faith that we can see miracles happen here in this part of the Lords</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">vineyard!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I love you all! I'm praying for you. Hope you have a great week! Talk</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to you soon</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-79865709300909212572016-08-01T08:10:00.002-07:002016-08-01T08:10:20.116-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I'm a Grandpa!!!!❤️</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey You Guys!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">How are you doing? I hope you're doing well! You're in my prayers!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Okay so to explain the title, in our mission when someone trains a new</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionary we like to think of it like a father and son relationship.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">So, when Elder Rushton (shoutout to him for finishing his honorable</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">full-time mission! Hoes going home!) trained me, I was his "son". Then</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I trained Elder Stokes and he became my "son" and Elder Rushton's</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">grandson. Does that make sense? Haha. Anyways, I was given the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">assignment this week to train a new missionary this upcoming transfer.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I don't know what his name will be, but I will <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">tomorrow</a>! But, Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Stokes will also be training! So that makes me a grandpa! Haha fun</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">times.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great! We saw many miracles. Our district has really</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">been pushing to get some new investigators and we have recently been</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">seeing "the fruits" of our labors. As a district, we have 5 people</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with a baptismal date!!! The Zone Leaders were blown away when I was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">reporting our numbers last night. The Lord truly has blessed our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">efforts! We can't don't this work without Him!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">One miracle we saw this week was when we taught Tristan. Last time we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">met, we left 2 Nephi 32 with him. So, we talked about that chapter</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with him this time and how it is super important to pray to know the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">truth. When we do so, we can gain a spiritual witness of the truth of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">all things through the Holy Ghost. He seemed to understand that. We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">then read in the precious chapter (2 Nephi 31) and talked about the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">importance of following the Savior. The Savior's invitation to all of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">us is' "Come, Follow Me". Chapter 31 of Nephi tells us, "if the Lamb</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">of God, he being holy, should have need of being baptized by water, to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">fulfill all righteousness, O then, how much more need have we, being</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">unholy, to be baptized, yea, every water!" Our job here on earth is to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">follow the Savior's example and to "prepare to meet God" (Alma 34:32).</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">When we taught Tristan this, we felt prompted to ask him if he were to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">find these things to be true if he would be baptized (he said he would</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">before). He said yes. We then invited him to prepare to be baptized on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">September 3rd.</a> He said that he would try but we testified to him that</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">if he does the things we leave him and if he prays with a sincere</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">heart, he will be able to know for himself that the things we've told</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">him are true. We promised him. He then committed to be baptized on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">that date! I am so excited for him! We are going to keep working with</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">him!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I am excited for my new companion to come but I am also sad to see</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder a fielding go. He is going to Lewiston with Elder Fauga! Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Fauga is the only other Samoan missionary in this mission haha. It's</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">cool that Elder Fielding gets to serve with both of us in a row haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">But it's cool cuz Elder Fauga is from Salt Lake City and Uncle Sam was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">his bishop before he left on his mission! Haha it's a small world!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, I hope all is well! Things are going well here all due to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">your love, support and prayers. Thank you al, so much for all you do!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I will talk to you soon!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-87158022401296612002016-07-25T13:57:00.004-07:002016-07-25T13:57:58.099-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey You Guys!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">How goes it? This week was weird. We started out in a trio with Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Marks and ended with having a service missionary Elder Toone come and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">be Elder Marks' temporary companion. It was a good week though.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week I started studying the Doctrine and Covenants. When I told</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">President Evans that I was studying from the D&C, he showed me where I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">can find a bunch of background information on each section. I am</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">loving learning about church history and the sacrifices so many early</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">members of the church made so that we could have this wonderful gospel</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">today.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">While we were Tracting this week, we found a lady named Shannon.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Shannon lives in Boston (Boston, New York). She was standing outside</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">her house when we started talking to her. We bore testimony to her of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the Book of Mormon and she told us that she has been starting to look</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">into religion. She gladly accepted a free copy and thanked us for</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">stopping by. The Lord truly does know each and every one of His</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">children and what they are looking for.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Another cool experience we had this week happened on Thursday after</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">dinner. We had planned to go to East Aurora to do some finding. Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Fielding was hesitant on going there but I felt like we needed to. So,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">we jumped in car and drove there. When we got there, we prayed to know</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">where to go. As we were praying, I saw a picture of a place we needed</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to go. So once we closed the prayer, we got out of the car and I told</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Fielding, "Follow me." So he did. After a little bit, he said,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">"where are we going?" I replied, "I don't know." We went to the place</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I saw in my head and lo and behold, there was a big concert-function</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">thingy going on! Lots of people were there and we went and bought a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">hot dog and talked to people there. We were able to talk to a really</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">nice lady from Lancaster who has been to church at the Lancaster</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">building before! We gave her a Book of Mormon and she was very</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">thankful. We got to talk to so many people! It was great. There was a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">group of women that talked to us about our missions. We bore testimony</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and taught about the Book of Mormon. It was a miracle!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, this week was a week of miracles! I love being here and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">serving. Isss de besssst.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Scripture of the Week: Doctrine and Covenants <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">11:21</a> "Seek not to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">declare my word, but first seek to obtain my word, and then shall your</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">tongue be loosed; then, if you desire, you shall have my Spirit and my</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">word, yea, the power of God unto the convincing of men." As we study</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and we treasure up the word of God, He will bless and He will help us</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">help those around us to learn of Him through our example and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">testimony. 📚</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I love you guys! Hope you have a great week! Talk to you soon!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-7399316991526139992016-07-18T09:21:00.001-07:002016-07-18T09:21:12.583-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey You Guys!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">How goes it? Things are going well here. Elder Fielding and I have a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">new companion Elder Marks! He is in our district. His companion Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Daugs finished his mission this week and his parents came and picked</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">him up and went to the Hill Cummorah Pageant! Super cool. So Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Marks is with us now and we are covering two areas until the end of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the transfer (around <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">August 1st</a>). It's been interesting being in a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">tri-panionship (that's what i like to call it). I haven't been on a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">trio since the MTC! (8 almost 9 months ago!) Shoutout to Elder Matos</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and Elder Brown (serving in the Seattle Mission). But it's good. We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">have and will continue to spread the gospel and help others where we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">can. That's our job! We do that by inviting others to come unto</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Christ.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We had some awesome experiences this week. On Wednesday, we were doing</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">some service at a park in West Seneca called Burchfield Nature Park.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It is such a nice park. The lady that volunteers there was telling us</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">what she needed us to do when she told us to look and see how many</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">people are walking around with their phones. I didn't think much of it</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">until she pointed out what they were doing. She said they were playing</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">a new game called Pokemon Go! It was unreal how many people were</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">walking around totally oblivious to their surroundings. I caught this</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">guy off guard by asking if he was playing Pokemon Go. He looked up at</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">me startled and then jumped right in to what he was doing, "yeah dude.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I just caught a Pikachu! There's another one around here somewhere." I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">had to try not to laugh haha. But anyways, that's not the experience I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">wanted to talk about. As we were leaving the park, we were going to go</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">get some lunch. I saw a guy walking through the parking lot. Being a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionary, I waved at him and I got the warmest/happiest wave back.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Before we left the parking lot, I told Elder Fielding to turn around.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We had to talk to that guy. Elder Fielding didn't even see the guy but</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">he turned around. I hopped out of the car once we parked and I took</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">off down the trail that I saw this guy go down. He only had one arm</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and was struggling to put something in his pocket. I said, "excuse me</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">sir" he turned around and happy as can be, he said, "hey! How are</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">you?" His name was Melvin. We talked to him for a little while and he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">told us that he is a long time choir member of his church. He has</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">recently been through a lot of health problems. But the coolest thing</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">he told us was, "today i told myself that I was going to go walk in</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the park and talk with the Lord. And look. You guys came along! I'm so</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">happy that we are getting to talk right now!" He was one of the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">happiest men I have ever met! He told us that he would love it if we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">would stop by and talk. Such a cool experience. He is awesome. Here</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I'll attach a picture of him to the end of this email.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week one of the people we met on the street one time pulled over</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">next to where we were walking. She rolled her window down and asked</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">for our help with Orchard Park Historical Society Yard Sale. We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">offered our help to her earlier when we had run in to her on the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">sidewalk. So she was asking us for help now. Helping the Historical</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Society was so fun. We got to meet all the legends of Orchard Park.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">They loved us. The all were pretty old so they didn't feel comfortable</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">calling us Elders. It was weird hearing my first name so much haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">But they were so grateful for our help.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week I finished the Book of Mormon twice! I finished the two</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">different readings that I had going on. It was sweet. I love it. The</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Book of Mormon is so true. There is too much good, light, and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">knowledge in it to be false. "When you feel good, you feel God." Word</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to Sister Fisher and Sister Argyle (best seminary teachers ever). The</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Book of Mormon is good. The Book of Mormon is of God. If you haven't</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">had the chance to read it yet, I would encourage you with all my heart</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to read it. It will only help you in the challenges that life throws</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">at you.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I love you guys! I'm praying for you! I hope you all have a great</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">week! Thanks for everything that have done for me! I will talk to you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">next week!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Melvin</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-12628780983519528142016-07-11T08:34:00.001-07:002016-07-11T08:34:26.660-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey Everyone!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">How goes it? This week was awesome! The Fourth of July was awesome. We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">got to see some sweet fireworks in Orchard Park.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week we got to meet our new mission president. President Evans is</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">from Middleton?, Idaho (Boise area I think). He and his family are</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">super cool! I'm excited to serve with him here in the mission field.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">On Saturday we went to the Hill Cummorah Pageant with a less-active</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">member named Sister Plummer! We went to the Sacred Grove before! (The</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sacred Grove is where Our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">appeared to Joseph Smith and answered his prayer.) She really had a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">good time there.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Then, we went to the Hill Cummorah Pageant. Now keep in mind, this</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">thing is no small production. It has around 800 cast members and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">seating for 9,000 everyday there is a show! So there are lots of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">people there. I got to see a lot of people that I hadn't seen in a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">while like Elder Stokes, George Schmidt, a few other people from</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Batavia, and even a family that Elder Rushton and I found in Batavia!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It was so awesome. I would definitely recommend checking it out in the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">future! The special effects are something else. Such a cool show.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, my week was good. We taught a guy named Dave Newman a couple</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">times and he is really trying to feel the Holy Ghost in his life. We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">kept giving him things to do to where he can feel the Holy Ghost, but</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">he would make up excuses the next time we meet as to why he couldn't</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">do it. So, this week, I asked him if he would just pray everyday and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">establish that connection with our Heavenly Father. He said that that</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">was something he could do! We bore testimony on it and the Spirit was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">really there. He kinda lost it cuz he's kind of a gabber. He is a bee</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">keeper and if you get him talking about his bees, he won't stop haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week Elder Daugs is finishing his mission and his parents are</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">coming to pick him up on the last day of Pageant! Since it's the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">middle of the transfer, his companion Elder Marks will be joining me</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and Elder Fielding in a trio for the next 3 weeks. But it'll be cool.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">But yeah! That was my week! We are seeing lots of miracles everyday! I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">hope you all had a great week. Thanks for all the love and support. I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">love you all and hope to talk to you soon.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">P.s. Shoutout to Justin Shanklin! He returned with honor this week!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Good work man! Love you! #ReturnWithHonor</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-50148566594785954022016-07-04T22:22:00.001-07:002016-07-04T22:22:44.343-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Talofa Lava!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey You guys! Happy 4th of July! Hope you all have a great one! Be</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">safe while you celebrate with all those fire works!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We got a new mission president this week! It's sad to see President</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Francis go home, but at the same time, I am so excited to meet and get</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to work with President Evans. He is from Idaho and has left behind his</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">job, uprooted his family from school and everything to come serve full</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">time for 3 years! Lots of sacrifice but sometimes that's what the Lord</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">asks of us.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great. We saw a lot of miracles in our district. Lots of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">people are interested in learning about the gospel. And we are anxious</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and ready to teach them! This week I also got to go on two exchanges.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Exchanges are where missionary leaders switch companions with other</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionaries to do some training and help them wherever they need it.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">So, I first went on exchanges with Elder Marks (one of the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionaries in my district). That was good. I was able to talk to him</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">about some things that he needed help with. Then, I went on exchanges</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with the zone leaders. Elder Ahola (from Finland) went with my</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">companion Elder Fielding in our area. I went to the zone leaders' area</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">which is Lancaster with...*drumroll please*...ELDER RUSHTON!!! It was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">great being with him again. For those of you who don't remember him,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">he was my first companion here in the mission field! Super sweet. We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">had a great time together and he gave me some good advice. We taught a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">lady who had a baptismal date but had dropped them. We finally got to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">meet with her after a long time of her not wanting to talk to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionaries. We took a recent convert who turns out to be friends</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with her! The lesson was great! We talked with her about where she is</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">at in the conversion process and things like how her relationship is</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with our Heavenly Father. It was great having Greg (the recent</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">convert) there with us. She really listened to him because she knows</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">him and where he has been in his life. Now, he holds the Aaronic</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Priesthood and holds the office of a Priest. She was shocked when he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">said he was a Priest. She said, "REALLY?!?!" To which he replied, "I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">know right? That's what I said!" He is so funny. We had a great lesson</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with her and she said she would like to start meeting with us again!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Well...not "us"...but Elder Rushton and Elder Ahola. But still! She's</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">got lots of potential.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The weather was perfect this week. Although it has been starting to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">warm up lately, it's been a pretty nice week as far as weather goes.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The work has been moving along nicely. We have been finding more and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">more people to teach and help them along the journey of conversion.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">While I was on exchanges with Elder Marks this week, we taught a guy</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">named Robert "Frenchy" Segool. He is a Vietnam veteran and was very</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">impressed that we go around knocking on doors at our age. He said that</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">if he were at our age, he would be chasin girls haha. But we taught</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">him about the Restoration. He came to church yesterday! He is so</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">awesome. It was fast and testimony meeting and all 4 of us</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionaries got up and bore our testimonies. During the meeting,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Robert leaned over to Elder Marks and asked him, "how do I join your</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">church?" He has real intent! I am so excited for him.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The Hill Cummorah Pageant is coming up this weekend and next week. It</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">is a huge outdoor production that seats 9,000 people every night!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Basically what it is is a play about different stories in the Book of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Mormon. I have only hear good things about it. We are going to take</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">some investigators and a less active member there. I'm so excited!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, that's what's going on over here...hope all is well where you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">are. Thanks for everything you do! I love you all so much! Have a good</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">holiday and a great week!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Tofa Soifua!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-24687196725124383042016-06-29T21:47:00.002-07:002016-06-29T21:47:17.477-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Talofa!!</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey Everyone!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great! We did a lot of teaching and a lot of service and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the usual mission stuff. Not to sound boring or anything. Cuz it's</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">been a blast! Missions are the best.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Today is kinda crazy because President Francis' farewell is today.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It's been crazy and there has been a lot of things going on. So I will</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">have to keep this email pretty short. Sorry for that.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week we saw a lot of cool things happen. The Lord directed us to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">do some really cool things this week. One day we were planning on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">going to a town called East Aurora to do some service for one of our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">investigators. For some reason before we left, I felt like we needed</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to bring our white shirts and ties. So we went in our service clothes</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and brought our proselyting clothes. When we pulled in to East Aurora,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">we saw tons of people walking around! It was totally unexpected. So,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">we changed real quick and hopped out and talked to a bunch of people.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It was sweet. We just had a hunch that we should bring our white shirt</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and ties and it the Lord blessed us for doing so. It was sweet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We are working hard and trying to find people to teach. Hopefully we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">will find someone soon. Keep us in your prayers! Love you all! Have a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">great week. Talk to you soon.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-90890773979702383822016-06-20T20:07:00.001-07:002016-06-20T20:08:54.866-07:00<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">I'm down with OP (Orchard Park)..yeah, you know me! 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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Hey You Guys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">How was your week? Mine was great! We were real busy. We had a lot of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">cool experiences this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">I had the opportunity to go on exchanges twice this week (where we</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">switch companions for the day). Once on Tuesday with Elder Marks who</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">is in my district and once on Saturday with Elder Hunt (one of the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">zone leaders). Tuesday was a fun exchange (Saturday was too, I just</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">gotta tell you about the Tuesday one first). We worked in a city in my</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">area called East Aurora. It's a really nice town and has a cool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">downtown. One time during the day, we were walking and talking to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">people when a random lady walked up to us and said, "I've been to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Nauvoo! I would love to donate to the missionaries. Go buy yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">some lunch." She handed us some money while we were talking to another</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">lady. When we finished talking to her, we looked down at the money and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">it was a 100 dollar bill! We tried really hard to find the lady but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">she disappeared. We ended up putting it in the missionary fund instead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">of spending it. (As tempting as it was haha) we had a great day and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">worked hard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">On Saturday, I went on an exchange with Elder Hunt from Auburn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Washington! Yeah I said Auburn! He went to Auburn Mountainview High</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">School! It was cool cuz we got to talk about home and stuff. We</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">actually knew a lot of the same people from home! It was so cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">We got transfer calls today. Our district is staying the same! I love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">this district! I'm excited to work another transfer with them. But</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">guess what. Elder Rushton (my first companion, my trainer) is coming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">to be our zone leader! Super cool! That means I will get to see him</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">before he goes home! (Which is in 6 weeks)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, the work here is going well and we are finding more and more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">people to teach. It's been such a blessing to see the Lords hand in my</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">life each and every day. I love this gospel and the peace and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">happiness that comes from it. I love you all have a great week. Talk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">to you next week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-47430608230906268182016-06-13T13:47:00.001-07:002016-06-13T13:47:11.308-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hello Everyone!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great. Every week is great as a missionary.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We were really busy this week. We did all of the regular missionary</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">stuff. Tracting, street contacting, visiting less actives, etc. it was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">great. I am loving every minute of it.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week we also got to do some service as well. We served at a cool</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">park called Birchfield. We took out a lot of daffodils and weeds. Our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">district is growing stronger and stronger unity it's awesome. But some</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">of us might get transferred next week. It's too bad. Also, we had some</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">service for the city where we cleaned out the back side of an</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">abandoned house. I guess the guy was a hoarder before he passed away</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">so the whole back yard was covered in piles of rotted wood and weeds</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and trash. We took it all out and took it to the curb.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sorry for the short email today, we played basketball and dodgeball</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">with the young men in the ward and you know how it is. I got a little</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">distracted haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, thank you for all the prayers and love and support. I wanted</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to give a shoutout to the seniors who just graduated. I'm proud of you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">guys! Keep up the good work! Love you all! You guys are the best. Have</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">a great work!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Much Love</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-45902426090896060222016-06-06T16:24:00.001-07:002016-06-06T16:24:43.497-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey You Guys!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">How was your week? I hope you had a good one! I miss you all!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sorry I didn't send an email last week...I went to send it and i</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">accidentally deleted it.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was awesome! We taught a lot of people and found a couple</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">new people to teach! It's awesome to see the Lords hand in our lives</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">every day. Because He truly does bless us everyday.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We had zone meeting this week. The zone leaders have implemented a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">plan that will "raise the bar" for our missionary work this month.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It'll be good because we are getting a new mission president in July!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Their plan is called June Jubilee. All the districts are kinda</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">competing to "raise the bar" as a zone. It's great. My district is</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">doing well. We are rocking.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We taught a lot this week! It's been great. We really are working</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">hard. The Lord is blessing us for our efforts. We were street</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">contacting one night when we saw a little old lady in her lawn trying</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to trim her bushes. We crossed the street and asked if she needed any</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">help. She told us no thank you and we continued to talk to her. She</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">thought it was cool that we offer service and that we want to help the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">community. "So, if I break my leg, I can call you and you would come</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">and take my trash out to the curb?" We said of course! She was touched</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">by that. Then, she asked us what we knew about the election. We told</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">her that we don't know much because we are missionaries and we don't</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">watch tv or listen to the radio (which is fine by me) to keep our</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">minds focused on the work. Then, she got mad at us! She told us to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">leave! Then, I tried to say everything that I had heard through the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">grape vine about the election and then she was nicer haha. That was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">pretty funny though haha. She was messing with us. Elder Fielding got</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">kinda sad and scared when she started telling us all that stuff haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It was fun.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week we have been doing a Book of Mormon challenge. President</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Francis came to our zone two weeks ago for zone conference. He started</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the challenge then. Basically, we read around 15 pages a day and we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">will finish in 34 days! We have a reading schedule and we are all</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">reading together it's super sweet! I'm loving it. THE BOOK OF MORMON</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">IS TRUE!!!!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, thanks for all that you do, you guys. You're the best. Thanks</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">for your prayers and your love and your support. Have a great week! I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">love you all!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-51068864368238519322016-05-23T08:22:00.000-07:002016-05-23T08:22:09.526-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">What's up y'all?</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was awesome! We had a lot of teaching appointments fall</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">through, but every week is awesome when you're a missionary!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The ward here is so sweet. There were a lot of people at church on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sunday and they were all very welcoming (this was my first week</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">getting to meet the ward because last week was Stake Conference). It's</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">awesome. They are very involved in missionary work.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I had a bunch of spiritual experiences this week. But I would like to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">share just a couple with you. The first one happened as follows:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We taught the Achievement Day Girls (8-11?) about the Word of Wisdom</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">(a health code from our Heavenly Father that our church follows).</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Afterward, we had planned to go visit some people. We didn't really</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">feel 100% sure that that was what we should do with our time. So, I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">suggested that we pray for guidance. We did, and we were prompted to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">go visit a less active member. This member has been hard to get ahold</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">of for the longest time. We went and when we got there, we saw a guy</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">working on his car in the parking lot. We talked with him for a little</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">bit and then went up and knocked on her door. She answered! She told</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">us that she was getting ready to move so we were able to offer service</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">there. She also told us that her boyfriend was out working on the car.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">She said, "he doesn't know this yet but he's gonna be Mormon." Haha so</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">we went down and started talking to him again. It was a cool</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">experience. It's cool to see that the Lord truly does guide His</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">servants and lead them to where they need to go.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Another experience I had this week came as we were contacting in East</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Aurora. In the neighborhood we were in, there was a lady who Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Fielding knew that wasn't very interested. We thought it wouldn't be</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">very productive to go and knock on her door, but we did because we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">felt like we needed to. Christine answered the door and was excited to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">see us! We talked for a while, introduced myself, and then I felt</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">prompted to offer service. She had mentioned that she had just been</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">working in her yard. When i offered that, she got really happy and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">said, "yes!" She then went on about how she had been struggling to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">find help. She is friends with a member so we later found out that she</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">had prayed just before we came for help with her yard. And then we</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">showed up! It was cool to see/be able to be an answer to her prayer.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Heavenly Father works in mysterious ways for the happiness of His</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">children.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">As missionaries, we teach the importance of The Book of Mormon as</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">another witness and testament of Jesus Christ. The Bible and The Book</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">of Mormon go hand in hand when testifying that Jesus is the Christ.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">God loves and knows each and every one of us. He has given us this</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">great book to study. When we study, we receive spiritual guidance and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">can feel the love of the Savior more and more. I can keep going on and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">on about how The Book of Mormon helps me and how it is true and how I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">know that it testifies of Christ. But, as for yourself, no matter how</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">hard I study, YOU won't know of the truthfulness of The Book of Mormon</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">until YOU read it and go to the only source of truth. Our Father in</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Heaven (through prayer). So, my challenge for you this week is to read</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">from The Book of Mormon (no matter how many times you have previously</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">read it), and to pray and ask God if it is true. I can testify that it</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">is. God has given it to us for this day and age. It can only help.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was awesome. I love being a missionary. Thanks so much for</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">your prayers and love and support. You all are the best and I love you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">so much! Have a great week!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Preston Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-39855071460602566732016-05-17T18:42:00.002-07:002016-05-17T18:44:20.757-07:00<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Talons from Orchard Park!! 💦❄️☀️</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 14px;">Hey Everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Hope you all had a great week! Shoutout to Grandma Fagan for her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">birthday on Friday! Love you Grandma!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">I'm loving Orchard Park! It is such a sweet place! Elder Fielding is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">such a sweet companion! He's awesome. The members here are awesome. I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">know a guy who might give us a tour of the Bills stadium on P-Day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">sometime! I told him I would wear my Seahawks jersey in there and he</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">said good luck haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">This weekend we had stake conference and the missionaries sang in a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">missionary choir! It was awesome. We sang called to serve and the EFY</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">medley. It was awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">This week we had some awesome lessons. I'm still trying to get to know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">everyone and the area and stuff but we were able to help a lot more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">people come closer to Christ this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">We taught a guy named Tristan and he is progressing pretty well. He</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">likes meeting with us and when we met with him this week, he was very</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">insightful in answering the questions we asked him. I was like, "YEAH!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">You're right!" It was cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, this week was the best except for the fact that it snowed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">yesterday. Yes. It snowed in May. I hope you all have a great week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">You're the best. Thanks for your prayers and support. I love you all!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Talk to you soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-74185433414586348972016-05-09T09:23:00.000-07:002016-05-09T09:23:20.876-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Happy late Mother's Day everyone! It was great talking to my Mom and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">family yesterday! I just wanna give a quick shoutout to all the Moms</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">out there. Thank you for all you do for your kids, for your family,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">for the world. You all are the best and I hope you had a wonderful</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Mother's Day yesterday.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">How are you guys?</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This week was great! We went to the church history sites in Palmyra!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">It was so fun.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This morning we got transfer calls! It was kinda cool. All the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">missionaries called in for a conference call and President and the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Assistants to the President announced where everyone is going. I am</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">being transferred to Orchard Park! That is out near Buffalo. The</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Buffalo Bills stadium is in my area! But don't worry I will always be</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">faithful to #HawkNation. I'll make sure to rock my Seahawks gear on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">preparation day ;)</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I'm kinda bummed because they are closing the Batavia country area and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the Batavia City elders are merging their area with ours so yeah.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Kinda bummed about that but it's all good. That's what the Lord</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">needed.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I'm going to miss Batavia and all the people here but I know the Lord</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">needs me in Orchard Park and He has prepared people for Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">to help :) and I know that Elder Stokes will be putting in work over</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">there in Bath.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I am all out of sorts right now haha. Batavia is all I've known so far</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">on my mission haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I was supposed to speak on Sunday on Mothers. I had an awesome talk</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">prepared and everything. When we got to the church, we were greeting</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">people and one of the Branch Presidency members came up to me and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">asked me to say the closing prayer. I told him that I was speaking. I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">had to repeat myself like 3 times cuz he is deaf. When he finally</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">understood the message, he said in the most stereotypical old man</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">voice, "since when?" "SINCE PRESIDENT PIERCE ASKED US TO." (Elder</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Gibby was supposed to speak too). He told us that he and his wife were</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">going to speak. And get this. They didn't even speak about Mothers on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Mother's Day!!! I was kinda upset but i didn't let it get to me haha.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, thanks for everything you guys! I'll keep you updated on my</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">new area. It's gonna be awesome! Have a great week! Love you all!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546816106168867328.post-64209650424511290702016-05-02T19:42:00.002-07:002016-05-02T19:42:16.912-07:00<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Shamu Splash 🐋💦💦💦💦</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Greetings from New York!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Hey you guys! How are you all doing? I'm doing well. This week was awesome.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">We were walking down the street one day in Batavia. We were going to a</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">house where we had made a solid contact before. On our way, we saw all</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">these kids outside hangin out. As we were walking by, one of them</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">called out to us, "hey! You wanna see us dance?" I said, "sure!" He</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">nodded to his friend to pull up some music on his phone. I felt like I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">was in a little rap/dance off movie. As one of the other kids was</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">pulling up some music on his phone, the kid (I later found out that</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">his name was Nate) looked back at us and said, "what do y'all do?" We</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">said, "we are missionaries!" He looked confused and then one of the</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">other kids nudged him and said, "They talk about Jesus!" He turned</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">back to us and asked, "oh! Y'all talk about Jesus?!" We nodded and he</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">nodded. Then the music started. He had some moves! He was gettin jiggy</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">wit it! #WordToWillSmith okay maybe gettin jiggy wit it is a little</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">out dated. Gettin jiggy wit it is more for when you're talkin about my</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Dad's disco dancin back in his day (with his Afro) ;) love you dad.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, he was pretty good! When he finished dancing, I pulled out</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">some pass along cards and they flocked around me. They all wanted</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">pictures of Jesus. So we gave them each two. They loved us. I told</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">them that with their parents permission, they could call the number on</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the back and order a free Book of Mormon or on the other card, they</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">could order a free copy of Finding Faith in Christ (a sweet little</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">video). They got all excited and we left. As we were leaving, I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">challenged them to dance off. The next day, we got a referral from</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">headquarters. They said some kid had called and wanted a Book of</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Mormon and a DVD. It was the same kids! No one ever calls the number</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">on the back of the card! Haha. It was so sweet. When we went back,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Nate saw us walking up the street and he walked up to us with his</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">entourage (Chase, Anterico, Mario). They were all pointing at him and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">saying, "he's ready for the dance off!" I totally forgot haha so I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">changed the subject real quick. They're awesome and love talking to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">us. We have to get permission from their parents to be able to teach</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">them though.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Another cool experience this week. We were walking down Main Street in</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Batavia. We saw a guy who looked homeless and who we thought we had</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">talked to before. We hurried up to him and it turns out it wasn't</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">General Dan (the super crazy guy we know). Elder Stokes asked him how</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">he was liking the rain. The guy just startled stuttering and mumbling</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">on and on about the Cherokees, the Jews, and something else. I really</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">couldn't understand him. He would say, "uh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">duh duh duh duh duh Cherokee uh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh 5</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">different launguages uh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh I'm Native</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">American uh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh and Jewish." He was like</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">as saliva machine gun. As we were talking to him, I slowly zipped up</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">my coat to protect myself from the flying spit. It was almost like</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">being in the splash zone at Sea World (I've never actually been there</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">but I'm pretty sure it was almost the equivalent of Shamu splashing</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">the crowd.) we offered him a Book of Mormon and he muttered something</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">about seeing a Book of Mormon in the Batavia landfill. We told him to</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">have a nice day and he just walked away. That was fun. Batavia is an</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">interesting place. Lots of interesting characters.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Anyways, that's it for this week. We did a lot of service and</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">teaching. The work is moving forward! I love you all and thank you for</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">all the love and support and prayers. Have a great week! Talk to you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">soon.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Elder Peters</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Sent from my iPad</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822874264624865730noreply@blogger.com0