Family and friends,
Happy Monday to all! I hope you all had a great week! I, again, had another great week and was really blessed this week! This past transfer all of the zones had special zone conferences with President and Hermana Robertson and the assistants giving training. Last week was our week to go! We always prepare all of the stuff and are sometimes there for a while to help but normally we don´t stay for the actual training, but since it was our zone we were able to stay and it was excellent! We still were running in and out and all over the place to get things for President and the assistants and fixing problems, but I still was able to learn a lot! President and Hermana Robertson talked about setting goals and why we set weekly and daily goals in the mission. They really explained the importance of goal setting and helped me to realize their importance. We set goals to be able to push ourselves to be able to achieve them. A lot of times in the mission we set goals that are unreasonable and we never meet them, but that doesn´t do anything! President said that he learned from an apostle that he is supposed to help the missionaries fulfill their goals because those are the people who will be successful after the mission. From now on I will be setting goals that are achievable but only through hard work to be able to push me and help me have the success that the Lord wants me to have. The assistants talked about studying and how we can improve our studies. I have been with them while they have been preparing and practicing their workshop so I have heard a lot of it and it has helped me a lot. It really changed how I study and what I need to do better to have more uplifting and spiritual studies.
Yesterday I had a really cool experience with prayer! We had planned with an investigator to call them at 9:00 to see if they were ready for church or not and if they weren´t we were going to get them and take them to church. I called at 9:00 (like we said we would) but the phone wouldn´t work. I tried a couple of different times but it didn´t work. We were going to go get her and bring her to church but President needed some things in the office so we didn´t have time. We went to sacrament meeting at 9:30 when it starts hoping that she would be there. We went through all sacrament meeting without her showing up so we decided to go get her really fast and then bring her back for the second half of the second hour classes and then third hour. We got to the house and rang and rang and rang the doorbell but no one came. After about 10 minutes of waiting outside I rang and then said a quick prayer that at least someone would come to the door. I said amen and said to my companion that we were going to ring one more time and then if she didn´t come we would leave. before I could even ring the doorbell a less active member that lives with our investigator opened the door! Although she wasn´t ready for church, I was so excited that my prayer was answered and that we were going to have someone in church! Thiara (the less active) explained to us that they weren´t able to sleep all of the night before because they live on a main street with a bunch of bars where they are always partying and stuff so they didn´t wake up in the morning. She went and woke up Keisy (our investigator) and they got ready as fast as they could and we went to church! Although they weren´t there for the whole time, it was so great to see them in church! I know that Heavenly Father hears and answers every single one of our prayers! He knows each one of us personally and loves us so much. I want you all to know that I love you all as well! I hope you are all doing great! Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you and I will do my best to help you all the way from Argentina! I hope you have an amazing week!
Love,
Elder Petersen
