Temple Day - Pday

Don't worry everyone my Pday is today. We had the awesome opportunity to go to the temple! The temple here in Kona is tiny. The stake center next to it which is a regular size stake center is bigger than it. For such a big island it's really a small temple. The temple was Awesome.

Wednesday was my birthday . We really did nothing, it was just a regular day. A member in our ward noticed that Walmart had a sale on dress shoes the amazing charitable woman she is bought me and my companion Elder Baird new pair of shoes! To top it off she didn't know it was my birthday.

Saturday was really cool. Our Ward mission leader baptized his kid we had some investigators come which was great. Short sweet email. Hope everyone had a great week. Aloha

Elder Peterson

1. Zone at temple

2.  Bottom left Ward missionary Sister Lavaka, middle is Jenson our fellowship and right is Stephanie and Investigator, with Sister Lavaka's kids 

                                  

Big Island!!!

Aloha everyone. It's been a big change this week, I went from a little ghetto city on Oahu to a nicer city on the big island. I love it here. The Temple is right in my area!!! It's actually very small temple, the Stake center next to it is bigger than the temple. The members here are very missionary minded and love to help join us in lessons, they are always thinking of ways to share the gospel with their friends. My companion Elder Baird is from Washington State he's been out for 23 months. I'm his last companion and he's very trunkey (those that don't know trunkey means when someone who is looking forward to going home), he's an awesome companion. He has a lot of experience And a lot to teach me.

The area here is great. Kona side of the big island is the dry side of the island. Here in Holualoa it's very green for the most part but you get some areas where it looks like Mars.

It still have a lot to learn about the area. We have 4 people with a baptism date which is amazing. Our teaching pool is pretty big, I don't have an exact number but I still need to visit majority of the people we are teaching. Hope everyone had a great week. Keep on sharing the gospel with your friends.

 Aloha

July 15, 2019 - End of Another Transfer

Aloha everyone. It's been a pretty wild week here in Wahiawa. In the past few days we've received 3 referrals from the Visitors Center which on a good week we maybe receive one. We were able to meet with 2 of them. But all of them seem really interested in the gospel. One in particular named Anthony has been dating a member, she has told him little about the church. We had a lesson with him he decided he wants to become a more religious (that's the way he phrased it). The third referral we've been trying to contact.

Wednesday we went to do service at Pearl Harbor! Usually we go once every other transfer we got lucky this time. For the majority of the service we replaced crazy bell looking things that are supposed to air filters. You know the goofs we are, we made things fun. We ate lunch at the NEX. Anyone who goes there be careful eating outside, while I was eating a tiny bird flew in and swooped a fry from my table. Those birds are thugs.

Transfer news night. Saturday was pretty wild. Those that don't know the last Saturday of the transfer is when you get the news if your staying or being transferred. That same Saturday our mission president will call to either train or be in a leadership position. I messed with Elder Schultz most of the day saying president is going to call him and make him a trainer. It was late at night around 8:30 we were driving to make a quick visit, we were saying President was done making calls when we see him call when he called Elder Schultz. We were both blown away, props to Elder Schultz he's training! Now I'm being transferred to Big Island on Kona side with Elder Baird! I can't wait to go off the main island for my whole time here all I heard is how much better Big Island is. Hope everyone had a great week. I love and miss you all. Aloha

1.Pearl Harbor 

2.me with Stuart family 

3. Me and Investigator John

July 8, 2019 Holy poop JULY!?!?!?!

It's been a pretty wild week. We've taught this part member family with two 12 year old girls that have been asking a lot of questions about the church. The family is a very active family its just the two girls are from the dad's previous marriage. We taught them the restoration they told us they've asked their dad tons of times if they could be baptized! The dad keeps telling them that being baptized is a major commitment that they need to put more thought into. If you ask me they are ready and a definite miracle. 

Our fourth of July was pretty wild. When I mean wild I mean we had to stay at our pad at 6, we don't have any games in our pad so we sat around till we had to go to bed. It was pretty fun. plus it rained most of the night that was cool. 

Friday we met our new mission President Walker! President Walker and Sister Walker are super nice and funny. Our stake president fed us dinner with President Walker and it was great. He even made my dad's favorite food, Poi. 

Out of nowhere our members decided hey let's feed the missionaries more. Sunday I had 3 dinner appointments. Which is crazy cause we went from maybe 1 to 3. Man it was rough for me. I ended up throwing up at the members bathroom. I was kinda funny I walked out they had no clue I threw up, it wasn't until we left the house I told Elder Schultz. That's been it for me this week. I hope everyone has a great week and Aloha.

Elder Peterson

1.me holding tiny pineapple

2.me Elder Kamalu on left, Elder Schultz on right

3.Walkers

4.our zone with Walkers

 

July 1, 2019

I hope everyone is doing good. I hope everyone received my last few emails. I had my mom send them because of gmail was being weird on my phone. We had some exciting stuff happen. We helped a new person move into our ward! She is an investigator the AP's in Honolulu been teaching we coordinated helping her move in. We messaged her the day after and sadly it said it was an invalid number, we knocked on her door twice and she never answered that was fun. 

The sister in our district had a baptism! The baptism was awesome, it was a young couple named David and Mercedes. To make things better President and Sister Bekker came. I'm was super happy they were there because yesterday was their last day. today president and Sister Walker's first day! I will miss President and Sister Bekker, they have been amazing with the work they've done here in Hawaii. Also we didn't have zone conference or interview's this transfer just because of how things aligned so if they didn't have I wouldn't had the chance to say a final goodbye to them.
This Sunday we had an awesome broadcast from the area presidency about member's helping with missionary work. I encourage everyone at home to pray and look missionary opportunities. member referrals have a way higher baptism rate than investigators found through missionary effort. President Nelson said this past conference that the gathering of Israel is the greatest work to happen on the earth.
I love and miss you all and congrats to Chris Hatfield on getting called to Guatemala, Guatemala city mission! Hope everyone has a great week Aloha.

Elder Peterson