"A true selfless act always sparks another!" - Klaus

 

The tripanionship at the future Austin temple! 



FELIZ NATAL A TODOS!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

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Merry Christmas everyone. So this past week was an amazing week! Even though it was also the craziest week so far of my mission. Last week after i sent my email out President Carter called us and informed us that we would be in a trio and covering two areas! So thats what we've been doing! I'm in a trio with Elder Carpenter and Elder Christsensen and we've been covering two areas so its been pretty crazy! We've been teaching a lot of people preparing them for baptism which is good for me because this is the first time I've done that! 

Speaking of people getting ready for Baptism, i cannot wait for Jordan to be baptised on the 3rd of January now!! We had three lessons with him this past week where we taught him all about the plan of salvation, more about the resoration, and then all the laws and covenants he will be making at baptism. Another amazing miracle with him is that his dad started joining our lessons and is also interested! At the end of one of our lessons Jordan said probably the best prayer ive ever heard where he said he knows the church is true! He has the strongest testimony already and has truly helped my testimony grow at the same time! Please continue to pray for Jordan and his dad Lloyd now as well! 🙏

We also had our Christmas zone conference last Friday which was a blast!! We had it at the church where they are building the Austin Temple so that was special to see! I learned so many spiritual insights that I will talk about in my spiritual thought so stay tuned! ⬇️⬇️ We got fed pizza for lunch but then had a great Christmas dinner with Ham! To end zone conference we watched Klaus! It made me so happy because it was my favorite Christmas movie before the mission and i got to watch it on the mission! If you dont know what that movie is its on Netflix and i would highly recommend watching it! It has an amazing message about being kind and is also super entertaining! 

Spiritual thought: 
My favorite thing I learned at zone conference was when the senior missionaries in charge of the building of the Austin temple spoke to us. So yeah this is my second week where my spiritual thought is related to the temple! But he shared that time is a gift to prepare to enter the Lords house! This got me thinking a lot about time. Im grateful for time, time to he happy, time to learn, time to repent, and time for blessing others! How we spend our time is how we prepare to enter the Lords house and how we show and grow our faith in Jesus Christ. How are you spending your time? Spend your time on the things that matter most! 

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone!! I love you all and am grateful for all of you! 
Elder Peters 

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