We've been having some miracles happen here. Their one member family with two kids that haven't been baptized. Their mom wants them to decide for themselves if they want to get baptized or not, so the missionaries have been teaching them for multiple years. Just this Friday night we got a text message saying that the two kids are ready to be baptized. It was just this exciting experience seeing these kids being taught for so long and now seeing them ready to make covenants with God. The other miracle is of a woman that decided to attend our church one. She's a single mom that converted from Islam to Christianity and has been looking for a good church to join. She's been having experiences in her life that led her to our church and the members welcomed her and referred her. We only had one lesson with her which went super good she's is so interested, she watched general conference with a member family. towards the end of conference we got a message from the member family that she wants to set a date for baptism and she's begun writing a book about her journey from Islam to joining our church. Without the Spirit guiding us and helping these people there's no way this could of happened on our own.
As for the rest the other stuff that happened. Thursday we helped an older man clean out his car. This older man has had back and neck problems and couldn't do it on his own so of course us being missionaries we were willing to help. Not going to lie it was good helping him out but his car was disgusting. Words of advice to missionaries, and future missionaries When your doing service to clean something, expect the worse. Friday we had another opportunity to service this time to help someone we are teaching to paint his apartment. Who knew all these years of helping my mom paint would come in handy. Well it would have came in handy but he insisted that he should be the only one painting so me and my companion Elder Hutchins just sat back talked story with him. As he was painting the ceiling he had a big drop of paint fall right into his eye, at first we felt sorry for him but when we left the service I don't know why but we couldn't stop laughing about it.
We also have a baptism this coming Saturday that we're excited for.
And of course the big event this week was General Conference! With all the rumors floating around we were expecting changes to the mission length and heard all kinds of stuff, as we all know now none of it was true. Next time I hear rumors I'm just going to tune it out cause everything people have said didn't happen. This conference was amazing I hope everyone had the opportunity to watch it. I had two favorite talks first was Elder Holland's talk on the sacrament, and the other was President Nelson's talk on Repentance. If you haven't watched it I highly encourage everyone you, this conference has helped answer my questions and I know that I can answer your questions too.
Hope everyone had a great conference week I love and miss you all
Elder Peterson
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