This week we have been SUPER busy with transfers! there have been quite a few significant changes, including a new zone! We are very excited and have been putting in a lot of hard work to prepare for the activities that start tomorrow. I am very grateful to be here in the office! It is a lot of different hard work, but work that is very important and that needs to get done. I have learned so much here and have been blessed so much for my service.
Right now we do not have too many new people we are teaching. We are focusing on a family who are not all members. the dad is less-active and the daughter is not a member. the parents are divorces and the daughter who isn´t baptized only lives here on the weekends so it is super hard to find time to teach her but she is doing really well! She has two awesome siblings who are great examples for her and have helped her so much! Hopefully she will be getting baptized by the end of this month! After this crazy week, we should be able to get out to work more and be able to find some new investigators who are going to progress which I am very excited for!
Today, the day before mother´s fay, I wanted to share a few thoughts and things that I have been studying this week about mothers.Perhaps the reason we respond so universally to our mothers’ love is because it typifies the love of our Savior. As President Joseph F. Smith said, “The love of a true mother comes nearer [to] being like the love of God than any other kind of love”. I know this to be true and that there is literally no love closer to that love of the Savior´s than that for a child from their mother. i want to add my testimony and thanks to that of Elder Holland´s in his talk from October 2015 general conference when he said "To all of our mothers everywhere, past, present, or future, I say, “Thank you. Thank you for giving birth, for shaping souls, for forming character, and for demonstrating the pure love of Christ.Thank you for your crucial role in fulfilling the purposes of eternity.” To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle—and all will—I say, “Be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are. In fact, you are saviors on Mount Zion, and like the Master you follow, your love ‘never faileth.’ ” I can pay no higher tribute to anyone." I also want to say thank you. thank you to all of those of you who have helped guide and instruct me and have helped me become the man I am today. I am especially grateful for my mom and her amazing example to me! I hope you can all take a few moments this special weekend to "behold thy mother" and do something special for her.
I love you all so much and hope you all have an amazing week! Talk to you soon!
Love,
Elder Petersen
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