Peter's Ponderings

Hi Sister Shadel, "...Your Elder has been serving has been serving in North Carolina for a while now and we absolutely love him. He is such a hard worker. Thank you for sharing him with us. I thought you would enjoy hearing his testimony. He spoke in Sacrament Meeting today and did a great job! I hope you have a good Sunday!"

And it came to pass in the final week of the sixth transfer... Exchange with Elder Ord!  It started out great! Monday night we got a text from our zone leaders saying that President Stevens was felt inspired that Tammy's baptismal date should be moved from the 14th to the 7th (this last Sunday)! She is incredible and so prepared for baptism! She had another break in on Tuesday that caused chaos and she missed her baptismal interview that was supposed to be Wednesday night. Fortunately we were able to reschedule and it happened Thursday night. Unfortunately, chaos continued and she wasn't home Friday or Saturday and she didn't answer the phone. At some point on Saturday we got a voicemail from Tammy saying that she was staying with her aunt and to call her back. We had been calling for the last 2 days every 30-60 minutes because her phone is super buggy but when it's working she answers. Still no contact on Sunday so her baptism did not happen. Still no contact as of tod...

  And it came to pass in the fifth week of the sixth transfer... Our friend Tammy is so elect! She has a super strong testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. She is "giddy" and wants to be baptized so much! She is also already sharing the gospel and telling everyone about the Book of Mormon. She is going through so much and she is determined to not let it stop her. Every time she visits she tells us she knows it is Satan because every time she tries to come closer to God bad things happen and she isn't going to let it stop her this time! Mike and Sandy unfortunately have decided to postpone their baptisms indefinitely. I'm really sad about it. I had an exchange with Elder LaRose. He gave me a haircut! It was a good much needed exchange. He forgot his stuff so we had to drive back down and back up so we didn't get back until after 10pm. Then he forgot to get the SIM card back from Elder Freeman when we exchanged back so we drove back down and back up agai...