Fiesta Time!

JOHNNY!!! We are getting so close with Johnny! We had an incredible lesson with him the other day. Johnny has been having a hard time understanding and finding an answer to his prayers...so we talked about the Holy Ghost and different ways it works and speaks to us. We testified so much in that lesson. We read together in Moroni chapter 7 verse 13...and then i asked him, "Johnny, do you feel good when you read the book of mormon with us?" he replies,"Well...yeah, yeah I do." Well that's the SPIRIT my friend!! Whatever thing invites us to do good IS of God. And that is what the book of mormon is all about. GAH, you guys just needed to be there...but it was incredible. We're are having his baptism on the 21st...right before the big branch party that my companion and I are putting together. I'll have to show you the awesome flyer I made ;) It's pretty sweet if I don't say so my self...but I'll admit i don't think this party will be as awesome as the one back home =D

We found another great man named Jose. He's only lived here in Idaho for about 3 months. He's never talked with missionaries. He wants to learn more and take the discussions. But the only problem is...he doesn't know how to read...so we are going to teach him! He's so ready. I've never seen a more golden investigator as this. I just feel so blessed to find great people like him. Elder Clarke of the Seventy said that when the Lord trusts you He will put people in your path. I hope and pray I can live up to that trust. 

We've also been trying better at extending a baptismal date daily. And it's been awesome with the results. We've had a host full of them say yes right on the spot! Like yesterday...remember the Padilla family? Well we had dinner with them again and they invited one of their neighbors over. We taught them a lesson, invited them to follow the promise of Moroni and then invited them for baptism. The father thought about it for a moment...and then said YES! woo! 

Scriptures for the week: 3Nephi 3:15 and D&C 18:10-13,14

Along with all that good news...the past couple days have also been hectic. We finally got our car back...but then we found a bunch of other stuff wrong with it. NEVER am i taking our car back to that dealer ship. and I've had to be dealing with a lot of things in the district. Disobedience, laziness, and a pretty crazy bi-polar elder that hasn't had his pills in the past few days. Oh the joys of dealing with all that. It can be stressful at times...but you just gotta love 'em.

YES!! POTATOES FROM BLACKFOOT!!! never in a million years did i ever think i was going to be speaking spanish in the potato capital of the United States. Boy do i have some stories to tell you when we skype on Christmas =D

Well I gotta get going y'all. Take care. Con mucho amor!

Elder Petitt 

More Luke

well we had a good week..well it was actually like a roller coaster ride to be honest. We took Noah Zamora, our awesome investigator, to see a baptism. He was so excited to go see a baptism and see what it was all about. The spirit was strong, and then we taught him in the chapel about the importance of baptism and set a date with him. He struggled to except a date and then confessed that he had 5 more years of parole....dang. My companion and I were just soooooo bummed out about that. Someone can't can't baptized if they are still on parole just because that's still part of the repentance process...man. He's been coming to church and everything...i guess we can set a baptismal date for 2018? yeah. 

We had a lesson with the Espinosa family. They were found through a member...And that my friend is a perfect example of member missionary work! We had a dinner, taught the restoration, and the member testified. It was an awesome lesson. We invited them to be baptized and they accepted. The dad seemed to be just soaking it in. We focused a lot on family...and how the gospel really does bless families. 

An explosive fiesta is about to happen in the branch with the joined forces of the members . Our ward mission leader (who really isn't our ward mission leader...but we like to think he is) is hooking us up with his DJ skills, tons of tamales, and some fun things to do for the kids. OH SNAP. Can't wait for this. The branch hasn't had an activity like...all year! So, it's time to end that and get some investigators out and have a blast. This well be a perfect way just to unify the branch. 

Thanksgiving was delightful. In the morning we helped out at this Catholic church for a Thanksgiving meal for the poor and the needy. It was awesome to join with different religions for a common cause. Apparently the lds church and a lot of the other churches in Blackfoot do this ever year. I just felt so good helping them out. After that we kicked it with some awesome members. But there was only one thing missing...Mom's home made mac&cheese! gah! oh how i miss the mac&cheese. oh, and we went on a little hike because it was absolutely beautiful on thanksgiving day. those are where most of those pics come from =)

 

Thanksgiving Service

"My husband is the Stake President of the Blackfoot, South Stake, and for Thanksgiving we helped prepare and serve the community in need a special dinner. I wanted to share these pictures and report that the Elders were a big help, happy to help, and made a great impression on those they served." Sister Cannon

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yerp, it's thanksgiving this week. i can hardly believe it. we don't really have any plans for thanksgiving...actually we might be eating with a family this week with some other elders. we'll see what happens. On thanksgiving day we are just going to do service. Woo! just finding people to serve, especially some of the less actives and recent converts in our branch. 

We taught this other man named Noah Zamora. Our lesson was so awesome...he's about 40 years old but he has had a super rough past. Been in jail quite a few times. But the past five years he's had a "change" and he's been sober from alcohol and drugs for about 5 years. We've been seeing him at church for the past month but never really had the chance to teach him or talk to him until now. He started to really believe in a higher power when he was in prison...all he could do was pray and read the bible...and that's kind of why he started going to church because he wants to focus his mind on good things. We talked about a lot about faith...and then invited him to be baptized. He said that it was something he felt like he needed to do.

 He's so awesome...he asked us how you feel when you are baptized. We invited him to pray about January 4th to have his baptism.  My companion and I both knew he was feeling the spirit =)

This week should be pretty busy for us. We have a lesson with a family the day before thanksgiving. A member from the High council introduced us to this family and we're going to have dinner and everything with them. I'm super excited to teach a family like this!! Our mission has really been stressing the importance of finding and teaching families. 

that scripture you just quoted was in my personal studies this morning...awesome!! I'm going through the whole book of mormon again...but this time i'm highlighting everything that pertains to missionary work and what kind of attributes a great missionary has...and i must say, it's been really great to do that...and almost everything that is highlighted is IN preach my gospel! so the apostles and prophet knew what they were doing when they put that inspired book together. 

bad news is that some kids broke my glasses...but don't worry! I super glued them together lol. yah...long story...but i guess that can be my Christmas present now. weeeee

well have a grateful attitude this week! love ya and take care!