Date: Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:44 AM
Subject: What books?
Hey y'all!! It is absolutely freezing here this morning. My fingers are still trying to warm up and I'm having difficulty typing haha! We are having freezing rain and it is pretty windy too! We asked someone if it is supposed to warm up and they said it is supposed to get worse all day it is already 20 degrees...at least bike day is not until tomorrow! The ridiculous part is that Monday it was literally perfect weather...like it was 80 degrees.....
Other than the weather swings it has been another great week! We had zone conference yesterday and we get to see President Ballard Friday and have another special meeting in Amarillo on Sunday.
Valentines was good. We made some awesome heart cookies thanks to my awesome family!
We got another solid investigator named Patrick. He is getting baptized March 10th!! But, he is getting in baptized in Colorado when he travels down to see family over spring break. His whole family are members and he grew up going to church and seminary but just never felt right about being baptized. He fell off the path and for 15 years he was a meth addict. He has been clean for a year next week! He lives with his cousin who is an active member in Clarendon and he has been coming to church with her and reading the Book of Mormon all the time. We asked him what he does in his free time and he said, "read" so we asked what he reads and he looked at us like we were stupid and said, "the books...the Bible and the Book of Mormon...." It was pretty funny! He has already read the whole Book of Mormon but still reads it everyday! Right before I got here the sisters had asked him if he wanted to take the lessons and he said no but we asked him if we could come teach him about 2 weeks ago and he said yes! Things didn't work out right away but we got to see him this past week and we were very careful and cautious because we had been warned not to push him. We did some how to begin teaching and then we talked a little about our expectations and then asked what his were and he said, "to prepare me to be baptized...." so we asked him the baptismal interview questions and he knows everything and that it is true! Literally he couldn't be more prepared!! After we asked him the questions he asked us what a patriarchal blessing was and when he could go to the temple. Our next lesson he told us about his past and how far he has come. He cried as he told us that this has always been right in front of him the whole time but he finally realized it! He has such a strong testimony (probably stronger than a lot of members!!)!
You know you're area is prepared when even the bashers call you back.....that's right folks! We got a call Saturday night from a man named David. It was 10:45 at night so we didn't answer but we listened to the voicemail the next day and he just said that he needed to speak to someone. We played some phone tag the next day but finally got ahold of him and he said, "we want to come to y'alls church"........is this the same David who was a Pentecostal and was trying to bash about the gift of tongues???? He was super drunk when we were talking to him the first 2 times and we had decided never to go back but we had left him a pamphlet that we had no faith he would read! He did and then he called us!! Crazy!?!?
We saw the Hayt family this week. Brylee is soooooo prepared!! Satan is working sooooooooooooooo hard against her though :( She was so excited to come to church on Sunday and we went by to wake them up but her mom answered the door and said that they were sick. We came back by later and she said that actually her and Ryan had got in a fight. She told us that as soon as things cooled down she immediately recognized that it was Satan trying to get her not to go to church but it was too late :( We were able to have a lesson in a members home this week which was great! Unfortunately yesterday Brylee texted us and said that Ryan has been on a drinking binge for 2 1/2 days. He is coming up on the anniversary of his moms death (she died when he was in high school) and it is really hard for him. Please pray that they will be able to overcome these trials and addictions!! They were just telling us this week that next month they will have been clean from drugs for 2 years. We know how much they need the gospel in their lives at this point and how ready they are for it. We just have to be able to overcome Satan's strength!
That is the main points of the week! Thank you so much for all of your love and support!!
Love ya!!!
READ AND PRAY EVERYDAY
Hermana Peterson
"Perfection isn't earned. It is a gift from heaven." Elder Holland
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