July 15, 2013

This past week was really good.  We started out by hiking Pechuck Lookout.  It was a good four hour hike up the Molalla River Corridor, and it was a blast!  It had a great view and it was really fun.  We then ran the way down, and that took about 45 minutes to run.  On Wednesday, I went on an exchange with Elder Crocket, my district leader.  For the first time, I left my area on an exchange.  I went over to Oregon City 3rd ward.  There we had some really great lessons.  We were definitely able to capitalize on some of the comforting scriptures in the Bible, and the Spirit was super strong while we were teaching.  It was a really great experience.  On Thursday we have been keeping really busy, so doing weekly planning has been a little hard to sit down and do all at one time.  We were able to go out and teach M, N, and about  4 other people.  It was an awesome day!!  But the highlights of the week were when we taught the S.'s.  They haven't come to church as a family the entire time I have been in Molalla, and we taught them about eternal families and being sealed in the temple.  The lesson got a little uncomfortable because apparently, that is a touchy subject for them. But the entire family committed to coming to church, and reading and praying as a family,  and they all came to church on Sunday!!!  Then that night, we were able to baptize E.  She had been coming to church for the past three years, and she was baptized yesterday.  We had a little scare though.  The font filler never showed up, so when we arrived at the church 30 minutes before the baptism, the font was empty.  And the font takes 1 and a half to 2 hours to fill!!.  The miracle happened when enough people showed up to move the service to the chapel, so we could keep filling the font for another 30 minutes, giving us enough time to fill the font enough.  But the service was awesome!!

Love Elder Peterson