July 23, 2013

Wow,  I don't even know where to start.  Things are really kinda interesting.  So this past week, we were informed that we were going to be having the Spanish Missionaries coming with us to every dinner because the Spanish branch is really small and they cannot support 5 missionaries.  But at the same time, this means that we can all work closer together to find people.  This past week we received a referral from the Spanish missionaries, but the referral, a girl name F, is not returning any texts or calls.  She sounded like she was super strong and wanting to learn, but we haven't been able to contact her. Hopefully she is still interested.

But good new!!  We were out in Beavercreek on Saturday contacting people on a part member family list, and we stopped by the first family.  It turns out that family had moved or something, because the woman that answered the door was not the person we were trying to contact.  We didn't find that out until after we had shared a spiritual thought with her, and she seemed like she would be interested in learning more about the gospel.  

On Sunday, A. B. came home from the Brasilia Brazil mission, and he said that he wanted to come out to all of the appointments that we had, so now we have someone that we can rely on to go with us to our different lessons!!!

Then this Monday, we were asked to teach A's mom.  So we went over and taught her the first discussion, and she accepted a soft baptismal commitment!!!  A had been teaching her and she gave her mom a copy of the gospel principles book and her mom had been reading out of it.  She wrote down her questions and we were able to have a wonderful conversation about the importance of the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Then since it was P-day, we went out to Oregon city and watched 17 miracles as a district.  Oh my goodness, it was amazing.  I nearly cried watching it!  It was so good.

Love Elder Peterson