Peter's Ponderings

  And it came to pass that the fifth week of the fourth transfer was full of lots of random things  I went to Mount Olive with Elder Bergstrom and it was awesome! I love him so much it was such a great exchange! We have a lot in common in the way we approach missionary work and how we teach. We also went to a Pentecostal funeral for the mom of one of their friends on date. It was good. Different than what I'm used to and it made me miss country music. We also put 3 more people on date for baptism!!! On Sunday we had an amazing ward conference! Our bishopric and elders quorum got reorganized. The bishop is still the same. The best part was that Woody, one of our friends we're teaching, came! And the ward was so awesome and welcoming! He was very touched and felt the spirit for sure!  Other random things: * A guy we talked to said he's good at chess and that he'd beat me. Elder Howell let me set up to come back on Pday so I'm going to be playing against him later toda...

  And it came to pass the fourth week of the fourth transfer Sunday was crazy! I had almost nothing to write about until yesterday and now this email is long. We are teaching a lady named Sincere and her 9 year old daughter Sinclair. Sincere is struggling with alcoholism and at one of our lessons gave us her last bottle of alcohol and let us dump it out and throw it away!!  I was on exchanges with Elder Openshaw here in Goldsboro. We decided to stop by someone we lost contact with a few weeks ago and Lashonda has read the Book of Mormon EVERY DAY since we last taught her because we set up a daily reminder to read it. She is so cool! If she can read every day y'all can too! It was also one of my favorite exchanges. It was a lot of fun! Sunday was the craziest day. Random stuff came up for Sincere and Lashonda so neither of them were able to come to church but both of them really wanted to and we're confident we'll see them next week! The power was out when we got there (45 m...

And it came to pass in the third week of the fourth transfer we had an AP blitz. This week was kind of a blur. Back in my first transfer Elder Nikolaus blitzed me and Elder Walker in Siler City. Four months later he did it again in Goldsboro! The exchange was crazy. We found a ton of really cool people! Sometimes when we talk to new people they don't seem super interested but we still act in faith and try our best to help them, but during this exchange we found many really cool people! Several of them said they'd come to church and we called them on Sunday morning and they confirmed but no one came?! It was really sad. On Saturday Jane Davis was baptized which is super cool! It was a good baptism and everything went pretty smoothly. We had to change a speaker last second because something is happening on the air force base and it was all hands on deck. Bishop said he had multiple people say they wouldn't be there on Sunday and they would need subs for a lot of things. Overa...