Austin Ridge

 Helloooooo! Here's your weekly news update from the one and only Elder Peters! A lot happened this past week. 




Had some cool experiences last Tuesday when I was on exchanges with Elder Carpenter for the third time! We were sitting at a park doing some Facebook work when some people walked by that we were able to talk to. One of them was an 18 year old young man who actually was super interested. We talked to him outside for like half an hour until it started getting super cold so he invited us to his house! So we went and he also made us hot chocolate while we taught him about the Book of Mormon and the restoration for an hour. He also came and played volleyball with us and the youth later that day so that was awesome. Also got to have a 40 min phone call with a guy we had never met before but we taught him all about the Book of Mormon and plan of salvation for the whole time. So we have a lot of promising people that we are teaching right now, when we can get in contact with them! 


Other highlights: 
- Theres not ice everywhere anymore.
- Went to Chick-fil-a, and Jerseys giant pizza 🍕 
- 45 min drive through the countryside to visit a really cool guy. 
- Talked to a guy in his garage while he was working on restoring an old 60's mustang! I think I might've talked more about cars with him than the gospel! I was in 7th heaven
- Went to the Austin Ridge bible church Sunday morning. That was an experience. 
- Got bashed in a trailer park by a lady from Norway
- Not a highlight but our next door apartment caught on fire during the freeze. Not good but everyone was ok! 



Spiritual thought: 
This week I would just like to share my testimony of how awesome it is that we get to go to church and take the sacrament every Sunday!! Becuase of the ice storm, we missed going to church last week, and then this Sunday we went to the Bible church before going to our church. When we finally pulled up to our church I had never been so happy to see an LDS church in my life! I genuinely enjoyed that sacrament meeting and now have a strong testimony of our church being true! I am also so grateful for the prophets and apostles that lead our church! 

I hope everyone has a great week! I heard it finally snowed in Utah so I hope everyone is enjoying it! Love yall!
- Elder Peters


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