Thunderstruck

My District!

Olá everyone!! I hope you are all doing amazing! This past week for me was very amazing, quite a bit happened. Somehow a lot of it had to do with thunder too. I finally got to experience a Texas thunderstorm and they are pretty cool. Since there's no mountains you can look and see lighting flashing for miles. Plus the thunder was shaking our apartment at some points! We also went and did service on Friday for veterans. We were cleaning up a park and the veterans started blasting "Thunderstruck" (by AC/DC) which made it really fun! Plus I never realized that song mentions Texas, so its even better now. 


Another quick funny story that happened at service was while we were moving some planks of wood, there was a rattlesnake chilling underneath. It was hiding so me and this other elder picked up the wood and then saw it when it started rattling. So we backed off but then this retired Marine ran over and with one swift stroke of his shovel he cut its head off. So that was fun to watch. 

We finally have one progressing friend!! His name is Shawn and we met him the first Saturday that I was here. It's taken a little bit to get the ball rolling but it started getting good last week! He started praying and because of that he was able to get his job back which was a huge miracle! He now loves praying and says he feels the spirit every time he does! All our meetings and lessons with him are super spiritual as well. Our next goal is to get him to church so if yall could pray for Shawn that would be awesome!

Shovel used for groundbreaking of
the Austin Texas Temple

Spiritual Thought: Matthew 5:43-48
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

I read this scripture in my personal study this week and was thinking about it. Of course, this is a very intimidating scripture to read and I was pondering the common question of how can we become perfect. When I changed my perspective to think about how God is perfect, which I am very grateful for. In the earlier verses (like 44) it talks about everything you do to be perfect, like loving your enemies. Personally, I sometimes feel like we can be enemies to god when we disobey him and his commandments. Knowing he is perfect and still loves me brings me a lot of comfort. I also remembered Jeffrey R. Hollands 2017 October general conference talk titled "Be ye therefore perfect - eventually" I would definitely recommend listening to that talk.

Ultimately, we are perfected through christ like it says in Moroni 10:33. All things all possible through christ and i am so grateful for that. 

Love you all and hope you're all doing awesome!! 

💚Elder Peters

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