Teaching & trials

(Left) We were walking through the neighborhood when a random Hispanic lady gave us some Mexican soda! yay! Too bad that lady lives like 40 minutes away =( nonetheless, the pineapple soda was quite refreshing

(Right) Annnnnd here we are locked out of our car lol, i accidentally left the keys at a member's house. woops. 

This week was a pretty good for us. We've been teaching these twins the past couple of weeks. They're 14 years old and they are great kids. For a while the WHOLE family was being taught and the whole family was coming for 4 months straight! buuut then the dad got offended because there were some mormons in his work place that were doing "shady stuff" with money. Ugh. There are pros and cons to living in a highly populated mormon town. The dad likes to drink and smoke too....super tough habits to break. The family needs to be baptized BUUUT the kids want to be baptized. So we challenged them to ask their dad for permission to be baptized. We will see what happens. Teaching the twins are the highlights of my week and we get to teach them tonight! 

Like I've said in some previous emails, we've been contacting allll of the ward mission leaders in our 2 stakes we cover. We've been asking for ways we can help and people that might speak Spanish in their wards. A wml gave us a name of this guy who is from Puerto Rico and he speaks Spanish. We went over to go check it out and the wife opened the door. Wife told us we were an answer to her prayers because the dad has been less active and struggling with his bipolar disorder. He's going to teach us Spanish as we teach him the discussions and help him and his faith =). It's awesome how the Lord works like that. 

Gahhhh! My O'fallon people are leaving on missions!!! Too bad the places that they're going to isn't as cool as Pocatello, Idaho =P. Yesterday my companion and I gave a talk in one of the English wards that are in our stake boundaries. Both of our talks went very well. The topic was about missionary work of course! My favorite subject EVER!! But....a really good talk about missionary work is 'We Are One' by Henry B. Eyring in the last general conference. Holy cow I love that talk because it perfectly outlines how a ward or a branch should function. And of course if you get the chance go ahead and read Oak's talk again. He just talks about how awesome and true the church is. One of my favorite quotes from that talk is "Jesus’s teachings were not meant to be theoretical. Always they were to be acted upon."

Oh, haha, we showed up to one of our dinner appointments this week and nobody was there...so we called our dinner appointment. He answered his cell phone and was like, "Hey whats up Elders!? Oh...my wife isn't there?? Oh man, well hey, uhhh...I'm actually being pulled over by some cops right now because I didn't show up for court...sorry about that Edlers" then he hung up lol. yah. only in Idaho. 

It's starting to get cold again in Idaho. Winter is coming. Not looking forward to a loooooong winter. I LOVE the summer here in Idaho! oh well. Well stay classy everybody. That wraps up another week in Idaho. 

Love, Elder Petitt  

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Last week:  HELLO! 

This will be pretty short. 

We've been contacting a lot of ward mission leaders to find Moooooore Hispanics! 

Let's see, the highlight of the week is was Zone Conference. We talked a lot about finding families and teaching more families. Families are like...THE most important thing in the church, so it was a good reminder to refocus our efforts on finding and teaching families. There were these two sisters that sang this hymn and HOLY COW...almost everybody was crying cuz it was like the most beautiful thing anyone ever heard. I wish I had singing talents like Josh Groban so I could melt people's ears off. 

This week we have another big Spanish fireside/activity combined with all the other Spanish branches in Idaho Falls. I love those giant fiestas because there are always plenty of food, spanish, hot sauce, dancing, trumpets, and more Spanish! We celebrated one of our missionary's birthdays last night. It was super fun. We had the Zone Leaders over and we had some cake and ice cream for him =D Speaking of birthdays...Erica's birthday is coming around the corner! wooot! I can't believe it. and Father's birthday, of course, is around the corner. 

And the shark week shirts have been a big hit. I get lots of compliments on them =)

Well, that's about it. Have a super fantastic week everybody!