I hope you all enjoyed your thanksgiving week with your families and your week off school as well. For us Buckeye fans it was a very important week! Just in case you didn´t watch the game or hear about it, WE WON! Hope you are all praying that we make it in to the playoff like I am.
Anyways, enough about sports! This week was a pretty crazy week but a really great one as well! I did more divisions this week than I had done in the past past three transfers in Santos Lugares! They all went really well and I was able to learn a lot! All the traveling did kill me though! On Tuesday I did divisions with a missionary from Ohio and it was lots of fun! He is pretty new still but I was impressed with his progression! We were able to find a new family to teach that is super awesome! I even gave him my Ohio State tie, a tie that I have been waiting to gift for a while now! He loved it and was very grateful! The next day we had divisions with the assistants and I was able to learn a lot! I am very grateful for the leaders the Lord gives us to help us progress and become better and more like our Savior every day. I know that all the leaders we have are called of God and I invite you all to come up with ways of how you can better follow the counsel of our leaders. The next day I traveled two hours in bus to do a baptismal interview for a little 9 year old girl who got baptized this Saturday! The drive reminded me a lot of idaho and made me realize how much I do love Idaho. Make the most of all the pretty views and amazing things you have there! he next day I came back to my area and was finally able to be with my companion Elder Ortolano for a day! We had an amazing day and put 5 baptismal dates for the month of December! We have lots of people to be able to meet our goal of baptizing every week this month but we don´t have anyone for this week! We have lots of people with all the lessons and enough times at church to be able to get baptized this week and we have planned to visit them tonight to help them understand the importance of baptism and how it will change their lives! This past weekend we had a baptism of a woman named Laura who is super awesome! The missionaries have taught her for a long time because her brother is in the bishopric of our ward and her husbands sister and familyare also members. They recently got married and she was able to get baptized this Saturday and it was very special! This week is very crucial for our investigators and they have to go to church this week to be able to reach the dates they have for their baptisms. This week is also stake conference which we are super excited about and know we will see lots of blessings for this special event! Please keep all the investigators in your prayers this week so they can al make it to church and their baptismal dates! I also invite you all to watch the church´s new Christmas video (Light the World) and look at the calender and make goals to try and do as many things as possible to help do your part in "lighting the world" this Christmas! I know you will feel more of the Christmas spirit as you do this and will enjoy this special time of the year a lot more as you use it to remember Christ and try to do what He did!
I hope you all have an amazing week and enjoy the new video! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers, they are felt!
Love,
Elder Petersen
