Peter's Ponderings

May 25, 2026 And it came to pass in the commencement of the fourth week of the sixth transfer I was sick. Not too much happened because I was sick. Our friend Tammy came to church and accepted a baptismal date! She also came to Nerissa's baptism! We put Nerissa on date about 3 weeks ago and found out she is YSA so we passed her off to the YSA. She got baptized which is so cool! And I was able to go to it! Lots of things happened that I won't say here because I don't want to start rumors in my mission but some crazy things happened. Nothing affected me thankfully. I love you and God loves you! And this ended the fourth week of the sixth transfer  Nerissa Tammy

May 18, 2026 And it came to pass in the third week of the sixth transfer... I finally finished coordinating Mike and Sandy's baptism then later that same night we found out the date had to get pushed back. They are now out of town. They will be baptized soon after they get back but right now the exact day is still up in the air. Arlene accepted a baptismal date! She's been taught by missionaries in and off for 3 years. She's come to church more in the last 2 months than in the rest of those 3 years!! She's still a little unsettled but we'll work it all out and she should be baptized this Saturday. Several people came to church which was awesome! We had interviews with President and Sister Stevens. This was our last interviews with them, they go home next transfer. Anyways, during the interview President Stevens brought up the momentum of the area and I mentioned that it feels like it lost momentum. He told me that the area is doing great and I am doing great and tha...

 May 11, 2026 And it came to pass in the second week of the sixth transfer... I had another exchange with Elder Brooks! I got to go to the YSA. It was interesting. Also the YSA covers the whole stake and we were in Lake Wheeler for most of the day and we were invited to a house. Elder LaRose and Elder Freeman (our companions) happened to knock into us!! It was crazy! They were so confused when we answered the door. Mike and Sandy are preparing for baptism!! They were sick for 2 weeks so we couldn't meet with or teach them. After church Mike's comment on Elder 's Quorum was "it gives me the strength to stop smoking" and we hadn't taught the word of wisdom so I was super worried because I wasn't sure if he'd be able to go cold turkey and quit smoking. We went to their house last night and Mike gave up cigarettes! This morning President Stevens gave the green light for their baptism. They'll be baptized on Saturday! They are so awesome and have ama...

 May 4, 2026 And if came to pass in the commencement of the sixth transfer we had a double baptism! A double baptism is then two people get baptized, but this double baptism was a little different. Tamarcus got baptized twice. He didn't go under all the way the first time. We also put Nerissa on date for baptism! She is so cool and we were a miracle for her and she was honestly a miracle for me in ways that shall not be shared here. Unfortunately she is YSA so we had to pass her off to the missionaries over the YSA. I had an exchange with Elder Beasley! He's really cool. I also realized last week I forgot to mention I had an exchange with Elder Brooks! I love Elder Brooks so much. I'm excited to go on another exchange with him later this week. Oh yeah! Transfers happened. I'm still with Elder Freeman in Lake Wheeler so nothing changed for me yet. The stake split is supposed to happen in 2 weeks. Elder Brooks is going to be one of the ZLs opening the stake and chanc...

 April 29, 2026 And it came to pass in the sixth week of the fifth transfer Alexander Young was baptized!! On Wednesday we had an exchange just for the day so Elder LaRose could do baptismal interviews for Sky and Alex. They both went well, unfortunately Sky was not able to be baptized last Sunday. He has a super strong testimony and did well in his interview and there are no worthiness issues or anything. Everything was looking really good but on Saturday night something came up but for personal reasons I will not share he won't be able to be baptized for a few weeks. He also had some other opposition in addition to everything else. His car broke down and when he went back for it the next day he couldn't find the street it broke down on. Fortunately he did find his car the next day. Unfortunately it was later towed and a lot of other unfortunate bad things have happened to him. He still has a strong desire to be baptized and I am excited for it to happen eventually! Alex was ...

 April 20, 2026 And it came to pass in the fifth week of the fifth transfer my companionship changed and chaos ensued Disclaimer: this is marathon week so my next email will not be until Wednesday the 29th. One of our zone leaders got sick and had to go home early. Elder Brooks was called to take his spot. Our Saturday morning was very rough because we had to get everything packed and meet up with the other missionaries. Now it is just Elder Freeman and I. Friday night was awesome! It was our last night together and a member generously gave us some cash so we went to a buffet called Carolina BBQ and got shirts there too! We stayed up pretty late talking and packing. Overall it was stressful, but good. Saturday hit and everything starting going wrong. We didn't have a trio so Elder Brooks could do contacts while driving like usual so right off the bat it felt like we weren't as effective and then people starting canceling for church. One of which was our most progressing frie...