Smooth baptism...more to come

Well the more and more I write the more and more I see how short of time I have. You tend to get a bunch of flack especially when you are the oldest. But we had an awesome week and we are working towards more success in the future.

March 21, 2015
Elder Peterson, Marlene, Trever, Elder Graves

Well things have been going awesome, the baptism went super awesome. We had a huge support with the ward and them getting baptized and it was a joy to see them all there. We had everything all set up and ready to go and it was a really smooth baptism. Not much went wrong at all. I sent pictures to my mom so you will have to bug her about getting those. haha The new person (her name is Rhonda) we are teaching is doing so awesome as well. She got talking to some of the ward members and it was such a blessing in itself. Then we also have a few more people that we are teaching and things are doing awesome. But not much else, continue the basic principles of the Gospel and I promise that your life will always be easier then if you do without it.
Love you all

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Love 

Elder Peterson

Cleveland, Ohio Mission

3,15, 105, 1,2,3

Well this is going to be a short one, but things are doing awesome, lots of things are panning out, Like we are all set for the baptism this Saturday and it is super exciting. Trever and Marlene are all set and ready to go. So we are going to be busy with that this week which is great. Well the work has been progressing forward at a rapid rate. We have a new investigator that is already ready for baptism and just needs for April to come so that way she can be baptized. We have been getting new investigators, and they have all been referrals. But keep on working and getting things done. Love you all

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Love 

Elder Peterson

Cleveland, Ohio Mission

Another week...

Hello everyone, Well not much has happened just a bunch of weather that is all it seems to be. But Marlene (our investigator) bore her testimony and said that this is the church that they want to be in on Sunday in her testimony!!!!!! She said that she was planning on it and Trevor was too. It is such a powerful experience that it makes you go back and remember all that everyone has done and played apart in your life to get you were you are now. Like I know for a fact I am far from perfect, I screw up and I don't do things perfectly and even sometimes what the gospel of Jesus Christ says is right I still do wrong. But that has not changed who I am becoming. I see it in every person that I meet. You have a desire and you want to change. But it is just to hard, or you feel that you can never go back. Marlene said it in her testimony, she didn't know where she wanted to go and had no idea what God had in store for her. But she met me with another Elder when her mom got in a bike/car accident and that was the first time she talked to us. She felt scared and not sure what to do. Then a few months later she talked to us again and started to come to church and sees what she is and who she is becoming. Because of all that she has fallen in love with how the church has excepted her and made her better then what she was. The same happens to everyone, you cannot judge the church based on a few people or faults that others have. I have come to learn that especially. Because if you say that, it is the cowards way out. I have learned that when you say that the people are hypocrites you just don't want to fess up that you have done wrong or you just don't want to change. I delt with this problem recently with a less active, and I just looked at them and in my head said you have no idea what you are missing or what you are going to not become because you let others/yourself stop your progression in the gospel . But I know that because the message I and 85,000 other people share is  true. We all are trying to achieve it and we all have our faults. I cry for joy every time I see people come unto Christ. I have said it plenty of times before I love seeing the change that this gospel brings in people if only you let it. I count the blessings that the Lord gives me and other if only you search for him. I see so many just on this mission alone. Every single person has that potential. My companion has taught me that so much. He just barely came out and he works his hardest trying to become the missionary that he sees. I love that desire and I continue to teach/him teach me these steps all the time. 

Love you all

Love 

Elder Peterson

Cleveland, Ohio Mission