Elder James Peters

What's up everyone!! Let me just say Texas thunderstorms are something else! I am currently sitting out on our balcony watching mother earth just go crazy while I'm writing this email!  This week was a tough week! I mean that not in bad way because we just worked really hard this week. Elder Clark was also pretty sick but he kept pushing and working hard, and now I think I'm getting sick too so hopefully we can keep up the good work. Because the lords work never stops!!  Another lesson I learned this week about being disciplined was from a member we went and visited. On our records he had not been to church for the past 18 months and every time missionaries had tried to visit him he wasn't home. So we thought we were going to visit a super inactive member. But, when we knocked on the door (also in the pouring rain) he opened it and excitedly said "Elders!! Please come in!"  We got talking with him and learned that he had been working on the road for 18 months ...

Olá todos!!! How is everyone doing? Me and Elder Clark got a lot of good work done in beautiful Marble Falls this week! There was a few awesome times when we decided we just had to full send!  Hello from Oatmeal, TX The first time was when we were looking through our records and found someone who had been taught by tons of missionaries in the past, but eventually was dropped because she just wasn't progressing. We both felt like we needed to go stop by her and full send it. When we got there we started talking about how Jesus Christ is our advocate and that was exactly what she needed to hear! Somehow that had never learned that before and she loved that idea of how Jesus Christ, the person who knows us best, will be our advocate! Her whole attitude changed and she kept saying how hopeful that was!  The next full send moment was when we put our friend Landen on date to be baptized during our first lesson with him! Long story short, he is 13 and lives with a foster mom in our w...

Wow this week was just packed full of spiritual experiences! I think it was just one of those weeks where God decides to dump a bucket full of blessings right on you. Then again, thats like every week on the mission so I dont know why it keeps surprising me.  At the beginning of the week we had some really good service on Tuesday. Every Tuesday we do service at the helping center, its kinda like a bishops storehouse. But me and Elder Clark were in charge of picking up the bread donation from HEB again. We got so much bread this week that it completely filled our truck bed!  In one day last week we had 4 lessons scheduled and none of them happened! You'd think that would be a really bad day but we were able to get a lot of good work done anyway! We got a few finds and one of the lessons ended up rescheduling for another day.  Of course general conference was a spiritual high! Our friend Ben came and watched all 4 of the sessions with us and loved every minute of it. It was...

This was a fun week! We got to help build a mailbox and a wheel chair ramp for some members this week. Pouring cement for the mailbox in the Texas heat got not so fun for a second, but after we finished they made us BBQ so it was worth it! It was super fun to build stuff thought because I havent gotten to do things like that for a while!  Last Friday I went on exchanges with Elder Rowell from Syracuse and it was a solid day of missionary work!! It was my first time leading out in this area and I had no idea what we were going to do so I was relying completely on the spirit and it worked perfectly! We were able to find 2 new married couples to teach! While we teaching one of them all about the Book of Mormon, their neighbor ran over their mailbox twice so that was fun to watch!  Ben is still doing great! He came to church for the 4th time yesterday! He also started his family tree stuff which he is super excited about! We also had 2 unbaptized young men come to us and say they ...