Ya'at'eeh!
Hello all! This week has been a good one! I
feeling much better this week and have not had any headaches since last
Wednesday! Things are doing amazing here in Chilchinbito with plenty of work
for us to do. Wednesday we went to a Zone conference in Tuba City and were able
to watch "Meet the Mormons" which is now in theaters! Pretty amazing
movie with some great stories about members of the Church. Very informative
too! It shows what Mormon life is like for members all over the world. I
recommend watching it because it is very well done! During Zone conference we
had a training from the Assistants on appropriate missionary music, and even
though they never said flat out what is good and what is bad I felt that I could
clean out my music a tad. President and Sister Batt trained on better teaching
methods and making sure we take the time to talk about the First vision of
Joseph Smith and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. They told us that in some of
the teaching they have seen Elders rush too quickly through those subjects and
miss the opportunity for a spiritual experience. There were a lot of helpful
things I learned from the training. After Zone Conference Elder Winborg and I
went on Exchanges with the Zone Leaders in Tuba and we "Blitzed"
their area. Elder Winborg and Elder Scofield took the North part of Tuba and
Elder Nishimoto and I took the south Side of Tuba. I was able to learn a great
amount from Elder Nishimoto which I am grateful for. I have amazing leadership
and it has been that way since the day I started my mission! There are a lot of
great Elders in this mission! At the end of the exchange Thursday morning Elder
Nishimoto gave me a pretty powerful and motivational talk which was greatly
needed. With my Headaches the past two weeks I had been struggling to find
motivation to go out and work but now I am confident everything is going to be
great! Thursday was good because we were able to set up the Baptismal program
with an investigator. This past Saturday she was Baptized in Kayenta with a
decent turn out. It was a great experience for her and her kids! The spirit was
so strong and all the sisters in the Branch were very emotional at the end.
It's looking good for her future, I have no doubts that the Branch will take
care of her! Yesterday we had a sweet lesson with the two kids who are looking
to get baptized soon! We talked about the Temple and their dad was super exited
to go as well. The parents are less active members of the Church and so we are
hoping they will come back and start working on taking their son to so some
Baptism's for the dead after he is Baptized! Now all the dad needs to do is
work on getting Sundays off from work. Everything is going very well here and I
am exited for all of the Investigators who are making progress. I do not
believe I have ever had this many Progressing investigators my whole mission so
we are very blessed! We are looking at three more people with a Baptism date in
the next week! Great to read your emails and letters this week. Stay Awesome
and I will talk to you next Monday!
--Elder Petersen
