Tuesday, April 30, 2019

What up everyone. Don't worry I didn't forget to email, they just moved our P-day to Tuesday because we went the temple today. The Temple was great, there was a special spirit in the La'ie temple and it has a lot unique architecture. We had a baptism this week, It was amazing. We baptized Sabura she's has a crazy conversion story and plans to write a book about growing up Muslim to converting to our church. At the end of the baptism she bore her testimony it's so great to hear the testimonies of the people you've helped come closer to Christ. 

Every other Tuesday we've been doing Basketball night with the Elders Quorum. We've been using it to get investigators to join us but only members have joined us. We're still not giving up on basketball night we'll get investigators to join us one day. 

Friday the senior couple organized a big family home evening event to have all the military families get together, have dinner, and make lei's. They planned for about 100 people joining but sadly only 20. I guess it was still a success, we had less active families join and a potential investigator. Never get too discouraged when something doesn't go the way you want it to, there's always something you can learn or maybe a little miracle can happen because of it. 

It was Sunday night the Visitor Center sisters reminded us of an Brittany and Jamie, a couple we've been teaching that have fallen through the cracks. We thought we would call them and try to revisit although they haven't answered their phone when we called them. We had an appointment that fell through so we had the idea that we would stop by and see this couple. Sure enough they were home and happy to see us. We talked for a while and found out they have been struggling with their faith. It was really a miracle we came when we did, they've been facing some trials in their life and need the help from the gospel to direct them back on track. Whenever you get a prompting to do something more than once, It's most likely the spirit and always follow those promptings.

That's been it this week for me. Hope everyone is doing well. Congrats Joe Graham on Washington Tacoma mission. You'll do amazing, just being out here for 2 months has taught me so much. Please everyone, do not spoil Avengers Endgame for me or other missionaries it's not cool. Hope everyone is doing great. I love and miss you all. Aloha.

Elder Peterson 

1. Sabura Baptism (I look like the biggest dork)

2. A picture of the La'ie temple

3. Me, Elder Pukahi in the middle (zone leader), Elder Hutchins (my companion)

4. Zone at the temple

5. Our district Brown in the middle, Clawson to his right, Fatiau the far right