This last week was great! Well half great, the first part of it I was sick with a fever and major coughing, but since Tuesday my condition has been improving.
We were able to meet with awesome people and find a few cool people as well.
I guess since this is my last letter I will give my overall thoughts on a mission as a whole.
A mission is an amazing opportunity to serve the Lord and to develop a better understanding of the gospel and the church. A mission is designed to be challenging, and because of this there are hard things that we need to go through to improve. It's a lot like how metal is hardened in the furnace.
I personally had a great mission and I feel like I learned a lot from it.
If anyone is reading this and considering a mission, I would encourage them to give it some serious prayer and meditation, and then if it feels right for you, go.
LOVE YOU ALL!!!! I can't wait to see you all soon!
Love,
Äldste Peterson
Monday, May 11, 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
May 4th, 2015 | Last full Week!
Well this week was really good, on Monday after emailing we Went and played soccer with a bunch of the missionaries, it was a blast!
we also had a few pretty cool experiences this last week. We were really trying to have all of our lessons be member present lessons and we did pretty well. on one of the lessons we had Adam Lindquist (who was a missionary in my mission just a few months ago) come with on the teach and we were able to commit Rickard (the investigator) to baptism on the 30th of May.
Also some not so fun news, on Friday I got super sick and I haven't been able to sleep well the past two nights. It is some sort of virus. We think that when one of our AP's came on splits he got the other Elders sick and now I have it. (my companion is still unafflicted) not so fun, but not the worst thing. I am super happy though.
This Thursday was Valborg which is some holiday where people burn huge piles of wood to "drive the Winter witches away" it's a huge gathering and it was really fun to be in a place where there are a lot of other missionaries.
hmmm other than that I am really excited to Skpe this Sunday! We will be skyping at around 6pm our time. so be ready!
Love,
Elder Peterson
Valborg!
Soccer
Me and Elder Stinnet, he's my zone leader!
Valborg again!
we also had a few pretty cool experiences this last week. We were really trying to have all of our lessons be member present lessons and we did pretty well. on one of the lessons we had Adam Lindquist (who was a missionary in my mission just a few months ago) come with on the teach and we were able to commit Rickard (the investigator) to baptism on the 30th of May.
Also some not so fun news, on Friday I got super sick and I haven't been able to sleep well the past two nights. It is some sort of virus. We think that when one of our AP's came on splits he got the other Elders sick and now I have it. (my companion is still unafflicted) not so fun, but not the worst thing. I am super happy though.
This Thursday was Valborg which is some holiday where people burn huge piles of wood to "drive the Winter witches away" it's a huge gathering and it was really fun to be in a place where there are a lot of other missionaries.
hmmm other than that I am really excited to Skpe this Sunday! We will be skyping at around 6pm our time. so be ready!
Love,
Elder Peterson
Valborg!
Soccer
Me and Elder Stinnet, he's my zone leader!
Valborg again!
Monday, April 27, 2015
April 27th, 2015 | LIVET ÄR FINT
Well this week was great!
on Tuesday to Wednesday night we were on Gotland doing splits with the elders there. It was lots of fun and the people there seemed nicer than last time probably due to the weather which has been amazing!
It was great to be able to see some of the same investigators as last time I was there and one of them has made quite some progress and is now preparing for baptism. It is such a pleasure to be able to see testimonies grow so much.
This week I also had a cool experience. Last Sunday I got to go on splits with Elder Barnes and during it we contacted a man named Juan from Bolivia. we taught him a short street lesson and gave him a Book of Mormon as well as getting his number. On Saturday I got to be there on a lesson to his whole family and yesterday (Sunday) his daughter came to church, and he and his wife would have come but they had already planned on buying a car and so the time conflicted.
The lesson with them was so nice! They are so prepared and even have a nephew who is a Mormon missionary in Mexico!
Other than that this week was great, I wish I could share all my experiences but I will just tell you in person later.
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!
Äldste Peterson
on the boat to Gotland... 3 hours there... 3 hours back.
we visited the cliffs with these guys... FUN
helping some member get their house ready for them to move. we hammered nails in the attic.
down by the cliffs
our boat and getting to Gotland
flowers in Stockholm some cool square
Stockholm castle guard, we got to take a picture with... you're not allowed to go pass the stone line. This is right outside the palace.
Tack allihopa!!! and have a great week!
on Tuesday to Wednesday night we were on Gotland doing splits with the elders there. It was lots of fun and the people there seemed nicer than last time probably due to the weather which has been amazing!
It was great to be able to see some of the same investigators as last time I was there and one of them has made quite some progress and is now preparing for baptism. It is such a pleasure to be able to see testimonies grow so much.
This week I also had a cool experience. Last Sunday I got to go on splits with Elder Barnes and during it we contacted a man named Juan from Bolivia. we taught him a short street lesson and gave him a Book of Mormon as well as getting his number. On Saturday I got to be there on a lesson to his whole family and yesterday (Sunday) his daughter came to church, and he and his wife would have come but they had already planned on buying a car and so the time conflicted.
The lesson with them was so nice! They are so prepared and even have a nephew who is a Mormon missionary in Mexico!
Other than that this week was great, I wish I could share all my experiences but I will just tell you in person later.
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!
Äldste Peterson
on the boat to Gotland... 3 hours there... 3 hours back.
we visited the cliffs with these guys... FUN
helping some member get their house ready for them to move. we hammered nails in the attic.
down by the cliffs
our boat and getting to Gotland
flowers in Stockholm some cool square
Stockholm castle guard, we got to take a picture with... you're not allowed to go pass the stone line. This is right outside the palace.
Tack allihopa!!! and have a great week!
Monday, April 20, 2015
April 20th, 2015 | good week
Hey sorry I'm gonna have to make this quick. Great week! here are some pictures.
love you all!!!!
super old treatment stand aparently it was used by a dentist from 1939 until 2010, pretty sick!
me and Elder Stinnett
our four-man
love you all!!!!
me and Elder Stinnett
our four-man
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
April 13th, 2015 | Temple Flowers and great weather!!!
Well this week the weather has been AMAZING! Due to the weather being good this week we were invited along with about 15 other missionaries to plant flowers at the temple this past tuesday... 6812 flowers to be exact haha, it took a while. It was sooo much fun! It felt good to help make the temple grounds look better, and when we were done it looked great!
Kind of a cool experience this week was when I was on splits with Äldste Treat, we were walking around street contacting when we suddenly ran into Mustafa, our investigator, we were near the library and ended up being able to go and teach him a lesson on prayer! he is working on quitting snus and is down to one packet a day, and he took it out when we were with him. We were hoping that he would come to church but he couldn't make it. We are hopeful though.
Things are going great! I can't believe that I only have four weeks left! Time flies when your having fun I guess!
Again, I am super bad about taking pictures so forgive the lack thereof however we did run to this really cool church and that morning was really foggy.
And I thought this was a pretty cool doormat haha
Kind of a cool experience this week was when I was on splits with Äldste Treat, we were walking around street contacting when we suddenly ran into Mustafa, our investigator, we were near the library and ended up being able to go and teach him a lesson on prayer! he is working on quitting snus and is down to one packet a day, and he took it out when we were with him. We were hoping that he would come to church but he couldn't make it. We are hopeful though.
Things are going great! I can't believe that I only have four weeks left! Time flies when your having fun I guess!
Again, I am super bad about taking pictures so forgive the lack thereof however we did run to this really cool church and that morning was really foggy.
And I thought this was a pretty cool doormat haha
April 6th, 2015 | General Conference!!!!!
Well this week just flew by! It was super good though.
I think my favorite part of this week was general conference, I liked the priesthood session especially. Because of the time change I was not able to watch all of it, but all that I got to see was great!
This week we also got to go to this Awesome Easter party at a members house. It was so much fun! earlier in the week we had helped them move an old piano which was also fun. During the party they let us hide easter eggs, although in Sweden you just get one big one instead of a bunch of little ones so we all hid each other's easter eggs around their apartment and then we got to go look for them... mine was behind some books.
We also got to meet with Mustafa this week, we taught him the word of wisdom and now we are working with him to quit snus. fun fun. We are also working on the word of wisdom with our Investigator Lotta, she is working on quitting smoking, right now she smokes about a pack a day and has been smoking since she was 11, she's in her 70's. She started smoking on her balcony as soon as she met with us and she is worried about quitting and it's going to be really really hard so please pray for her. Mustafa also needs prayers. We calculated with him how much money he could have if he had saved it instead of buying snus every day and it was a little over 60,000 dollars! he was blown back by that.
We still run every day which is so nice. The weather has been weird this week even snowing a few times and hailing, but it never seems to snow or hail when we run. There was even one time, I think it was thursday when we did our run and as we finnished the first flakes began to fall and then it went crazy! I'm glad to know that somebody is watching out for us. haha
Anyway, I tried to take more pictures this week per request but I'm so bad at remembering, I will try to do better this week though.
This is just a weird pole thing in our area. I don't really know what it's for... anyway.
emailing right now
I think my favorite part of this week was general conference, I liked the priesthood session especially. Because of the time change I was not able to watch all of it, but all that I got to see was great!
This week we also got to go to this Awesome Easter party at a members house. It was so much fun! earlier in the week we had helped them move an old piano which was also fun. During the party they let us hide easter eggs, although in Sweden you just get one big one instead of a bunch of little ones so we all hid each other's easter eggs around their apartment and then we got to go look for them... mine was behind some books.
We also got to meet with Mustafa this week, we taught him the word of wisdom and now we are working with him to quit snus. fun fun. We are also working on the word of wisdom with our Investigator Lotta, she is working on quitting smoking, right now she smokes about a pack a day and has been smoking since she was 11, she's in her 70's. She started smoking on her balcony as soon as she met with us and she is worried about quitting and it's going to be really really hard so please pray for her. Mustafa also needs prayers. We calculated with him how much money he could have if he had saved it instead of buying snus every day and it was a little over 60,000 dollars! he was blown back by that.
We still run every day which is so nice. The weather has been weird this week even snowing a few times and hailing, but it never seems to snow or hail when we run. There was even one time, I think it was thursday when we did our run and as we finnished the first flakes began to fall and then it went crazy! I'm glad to know that somebody is watching out for us. haha
Anyway, I tried to take more pictures this week per request but I'm so bad at remembering, I will try to do better this week though.
This is just a weird pole thing in our area. I don't really know what it's for... anyway.
emailing right now
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
March 30th, 2015 | HEyoOO
Well this week was great!
We found a new Investigator!!! We trackted into her last week and she said that we could come back on Tuesday, and when we did she was there!! super weird we were expecting her to not be there, because that's what normaly happens.
We ended up teaching her the plan of salvation and later in the week we taught her the restoration, she is a little shy and it's hard for her to get around because she is blind in one eye so she didn't make it to church but she's really nice.
We also had an interesting conversation over the phone with a Muslim, he told us we were wasting our time and ruining other peoples lives... and other stuff but we were polite and we may be meeting him in the library this week. He said he would give us Korans in English so that could be cool.
we are also teaching another Muslim named Mustafa, he is really nice and we had a baptismal date with him but he needs to get his mothers blessing first.
Other than that things were great this week... we ran a 10k on Monday and then 5k every day except for Sunday... Transfers are Wednesday and James is staying here with me. So he will "kill" me. It's hard to believe that I will only write like 6 more times before I am home.
LOVE YOU ALL
Äldste Peterson
this is what I get to run through every day!
We found a new Investigator!!! We trackted into her last week and she said that we could come back on Tuesday, and when we did she was there!! super weird we were expecting her to not be there, because that's what normaly happens.
We ended up teaching her the plan of salvation and later in the week we taught her the restoration, she is a little shy and it's hard for her to get around because she is blind in one eye so she didn't make it to church but she's really nice.
We also had an interesting conversation over the phone with a Muslim, he told us we were wasting our time and ruining other peoples lives... and other stuff but we were polite and we may be meeting him in the library this week. He said he would give us Korans in English so that could be cool.
we are also teaching another Muslim named Mustafa, he is really nice and we had a baptismal date with him but he needs to get his mothers blessing first.
Other than that things were great this week... we ran a 10k on Monday and then 5k every day except for Sunday... Transfers are Wednesday and James is staying here with me. So he will "kill" me. It's hard to believe that I will only write like 6 more times before I am home.
LOVE YOU ALL
Äldste Peterson
this is what I get to run through every day!
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