Abs of Steel

Dear Family,

My new companion has introduced me to the P90x ab destroyer workout. It hurts.

I enjoyed hearing about everyones halloween and lives for the past week. I want to see pictures of Emily´s cake because it sounds amazing. Christian and Josh, I want you both to approach Mom in school in sight of your friends and give her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. It´s the least you could do. After all, she did bring you into this life.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Elder Brown and I have been pushing the envelope. It´s hard but I can already see the results. We´ve set goals for personal and companionship growth as well as helping the branch here improve. Right now the branch is doing well, but we want to help them help us. So the goal is to teach them how to teach, how to integrate investigators, less active members and recent converts. Then they can give us references and stuff. Which will help because currently our pool of investigators is disappearing.

It´s always sad when an investigator drops you. During the course of our work we find and teach people. If they don´t do anything, we will drop them. But it´s frustrating when an investigator is progressing or responding positively and then for one reason or another, they don´t want to talk to us anymore. We found out the other day that one of our investigators doesn´t even believe in God. Then the next visit he told us he didn´t want to talk to us anymore. The worst part about it is that he seems so unhappy with life and I know that if he were to accept the Gospel he could find so much happiness.

We´re still working hard. The other Elders in our apartment put a dead fish in our room because of an incident with some of those plant things that stick to your pants when you walk through them. It smelled really bad. They had planned to do more, but we nipped that idea in the bud. Pranks are truly not appropriate in the mission field.

Well, keep writing.

Elder Peterson