A Missionary's Work: Fire + Side = Fireside ;)

5/29/2017

Hey out there to everyone! This week has been great. We had transfers and Elder Basas left to Guimba and my new companion is Elder Cataluna. It's his 2nd area and he's awesome! One thing we did before the transfers was a fireside in our branch. It was about missionary work and members and missionary roles. It was successful and greatly uplifting, especially with our guest speakers. I guess I'm getting better with public speaking, that's for sure, ha.

Today we pretty much played zone basketball (all the missionaries in our zone, about 8 missionaries or so), so that was a blast, especially for my companion because he's a little bit area sick (misses his old area). He's truly great though and loves to help people a lot.

I read a great article "How My Mission Taught Me That It's Impossible To Be Too Obedient". I really love this article actually, it reminds you how important it is to love people. To me, the things aren't nearly as important as the people. I'm sure it's the same for most of you, but I also found that sometimes we might not realize it, but we do get caught up in things and money sometimes. It's so much better to love someone and care for that person. That will always travel with us through our lives and after, but the "stuff" won't. I also think we don't fully understand love either. I heard a story about a family who was involved in a DUI accident. Everyone in the family except the dad and the drunk driver died. Now that dad truly knows love because he forgave the drunk driver. Now we need to check ourselves. Do we love people as the dad did? That even if we are wronged, we can forgive and let go and love the other anyway? That dad has set an amazing example for us, but the first to set that kind of example suffered in a garden and died on a cross and lived again for us. He loved us enough to take our sins upon him so that if we follow him, we could obtain his mercy. Now let us follow Jesus Christ's example and truly love our God, and our neighbor, but even more than ourselves.

I love you all...
stay pogi and smile on :)

Elder Peterson